The Big Easy movie was mostly silly. For starters, people in New Orleans don't speak in Cajun accents and call each other "cher." Ha.
The cleaning up of the NOPD is the company line, but it's still very bad. The sound of gunshots at night is still pretty common.
Right now, things are slightly better because we still have the National Guard patrolling the streets -- but they are due to leave by summer's end. Wish us luck!
I'm afraid we won't have an honest police department till we have an honest mayor, since it's the mayor who gets to pick the police chief. So the future is looking typically bleak at the moment.
In January 2007 things were so out of control that 3000 citizens marched on City Hall in protest -- there was even some national news coverage of this, mostly by way of Anderson Cooper, the last cable guy who seems to give a damn. Things haven't improved much since then. Here's some photos I took at the march, to give you a general idea of what we're actually dealing with here:
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The cleaning up of the NOPD is the company line, but it's still very bad. The sound of gunshots at night is still pretty common.
Right now, things are slightly better because we still have the National Guard patrolling the streets -- but they are due to leave by summer's end. Wish us luck!
I'm afraid we won't have an honest police department till we have an honest mayor, since it's the mayor who gets to pick the police chief. So the future is looking typically bleak at the moment.
In January 2007 things were so out of control that 3000 citizens marched on City Hall in protest -- there was even some national news coverage of this, mostly by way of Anderson Cooper, the last cable guy who seems to give a damn. Things haven't improved much since then. Here's some photos I took at the march, to give you a general idea of what we're actually dealing with here:
http://flickr.com/photos/lgmaistros/sets/72157594478188541/