New Orleans Is The Perfect Example Of How To Ruin A City
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Did you know New Orleans is pretty much the murder capital of the nation? It's true.
New Orleans is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US, but outside of the booze fueled party scene is neighborhood after neighborhood of crime, poverty and a very vague future.
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This is no joke. My friend had a tenant that robbed an killed an Italian tourist. (With a handgun the cops promptly discovered tossed under the house.) The last time I was there I was walking back to the train station when a woman stopped and insisted I get in the car. She turned out to be a nurse at the hospital and yelled at me all the way to the station for even thinking of walking through that neighborhood.
Yelled at you for walking through a bad neighborhood, first time I ever heard something like that.
@@decacards5250 Well, she lived there and knew it was unsafe. Pretty stupid in hindsight, it was before dawn too ...
The area near the Train Station is a pretty bad part of Downtown. I just stick to Magazine Street, and always feel perfectly fine, and nobody has ever bothered me.
@@justinbryson352 There's no doubt I was were I shouldn't have been. Just for the record, I've been to NO many times, and never had any trouble.
@@jonlouis2582 I love New Orleans, and I do not feel that it is a very dangerous place, just so I avoid the bad parts of the city, which I would never have any good reason to be at anyways. That area near the Train Station is near the Warehouse district, which I like to walk around in, but only in the day time. I think New Orleans is very beautiful, and a very unique, and very interesting city. Sad about the ugly parts, but there are many very nice parts of the city to walk through, where anyone should be perfectly safe, at most hours of the day.
I grew up in Portland, Oregon, but fortunately have lived nearly 30 years in Helsinki, Finland. Sometimes I wonder if the "leaders" of places such as New Orleans, Portland, San Francisco, etc. regularly get together to compare notes on how to ruin their cities, even more than they already have. If that's their goal, then they're doing a great job.
Can you help me get a green card ? Help I want to immigrate
Our country has sold us out to the highest bidder.
I’ll choose Portland over New Orleans in a heart beat.
Demographics ruin cites.
@@ONE1BEAT SAME 🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋
The fact that political leaders in places like NO, San Fran, Memphis, etc… can actually accept a paycheck for a job well done with a clean conscience… 🤦♂️
Just Republicans were spending money on wars?? No. When it comes to wars, BOTH parties are lock in step.
Not true.
Exactly that's why our country will never get better because both parties hold us hostage
I thought louisiana was a democratic state
@@idontlikeshowoffs1608It is...has been since 1872 I believe.
@Joelswinger34 You're delusional
How dare you take away Mappie’s gun. He’s a map of America, he’s entitled to his SECOND AMENDMENT!!!
Mappy is CRAZY and needs to CHILLLLLLL
Lol
@@Ethan7s that would make for a controversial video for sure 🤯😂
Pop a cappy mappy !!
Mappy don't mess around! 😂
I was in New Orleans for a work convention like 3-4 years ago. I rented a bike and went down a street that off the main rd and a bunch of kids with bikes were at the end of the street blocking the way. They were shouting stuff at me and ready to jump me. I biked as hard as i could and zoomed through them. Never been so scared in my life. Was literally within "tourist area" and kids were ready to f*** me up. But I love the city, it was so unique and very musical. I would like to take my wife and daughter there someday but remembering how unsafe it was i will probably not.
I was raped in new orleans. But I love the city, it is so unique and very muscial.
I saw firsthand how NO people can be a “ rough” bunch, after Katrina. Some survivors were sent here to Atlanta. It was a gang of thugs and they just showed up at my friend’s barbershop and tried to commandeer it. My friend and some of his friends had to stand their ground against them. Crazy
and everyone clapped nice story
They did similar stuff in other parts of Louisiana but got murked
LMAO 😂😂
@@terejosh13what are you twelve?
@@Dragoncam13stop all that capping!! We had the whole country shook! Lmao. And I'm willing to bet my right hand if the roles were reversed or if hurricane hit y'all city I bet y'all wouldn't have came to New Orleans
I worked as a volunteer in the Gulf Coast after Katrina. We sent a 6 man crew to the 9th ward. They were held up, pistol whipped and their vehicle, all of their equipment, their watches, rings, billfolds were taken. We never went back.
You can’t help people that won’t help themselves.
@@holdenc3082 Better paying jobs would be a good place to start.
@@iketheranter9126Yet they refuse to get better paying jobs.
@@Buttsmcgee069 criminals have always been around. These scored pretty good money that night. It's eventually dead end money but scoring thousands in a matter of 10 minutes is hard to beat with a burger flippin job, or any low wage job for that matter.
@@iketheranter9126 Why exactly are you making excuses for human refuse?
I live in new orleans; the east specifically. The real problem is the households and nowadays the internet. A lot of these kids grow up in single parent homes where the mother is working all day so theres nobody to raise the kid except the streets and in the streets its a lot of older predators using these kids to do some ugly things and as these kids become adults, they go to jail or die before they can put their kids a different path and the next generation just picks up the worse of the previous generation.
The music and social media is doing a number to the youth as well and i know this because its not only young black kids in the hood affected by it. Theres even white kids who grow up in good neighborhoods trying to become drug dealers and carry guns because these entertainers make it seem like the life.
Nick, I moved from Memphis to New Orleans in 1997. The first 5 years there, I walked from my house in the Marigny to the Quarter. No problems but still very cautious. By the time I was approaching 50, I no longer felt safe in my own home. My truck was constantly being broken into, the thugs were actually trying prying the glass out of my door and 2 black kids put a gun to my face and wanted my wallet. Thanks to the fine work of the New Orleans Police Department, they were caught, went to trial, and they got a slap on the wrist. I got out after I retired in 2013. Live in the swamps and forest, happy, crime free, never lock up the house and recovering from a stroke last year. Best decision I ever made inspite of the flood risk. New Orleans cannot be saved. It is gone forever. From a loyal viewer, Greg Adams, Springfield. Love you man!!!
Hey Greg! Enjoy your FREEDOM!!
You’re words that NO cannot be saved are sad. No doubt as an insider, I’m sure you are telling the truth. It’s been a number of years since I’ve visited NO. I have family in Baton Rouge and we used to go to NO every time we visited. I loved it. The music, the food, the atmosphere. Even then my family told us not to interact with people that would approach us and we listened. Never had a problem. Not sure I’ll ever visit NO again and that’s sad.
As someone who was born ans raised in N.O. ill say this... The city can be saved. It's up to the people to make thar change. There is social resentment, a sense of hopeless, and anger that came from various things that have impacted the city long before Katrina. Once you fix those issues, things will turn around. I just know they won't happen in my lifetime.
@@joeywilson3 and your words, too, are sad.
You are right! We are lifelong native of south east Louisiana… bayou country. We all hate being lumped in with New Orleans as south Louisianan’s don’t we?! We don’t go there anymore and there are some things I miss, but it’s not worth the risk. Not even Saints games or restaurants.
The big problem is there are too few FATHERS in the home....if there even is one.
None probably they wouldn't get welfare if the man is at home
Bingo!
Yeah…I’m pretty sure 90% conviction rates with little to no evidence (been there, seen it, had it happen to friends and family), government corruption, a failed school system, and no opportunity contributes heavily to fatherlessness and abject poverty, thus leading to more crime and ignorance.
My cousin once told me “you gotta think. A lot of people have never left New Orleans. They’ve never been outside of it in their whole lives. They really think this is what the world is like.” Hearing that, I realize why there’s no hope there.
The mothers are paid to keep them away. The govt wants them to be dependent and keep voting blue
No and yea a lot of them our in abusive relationships and some women stay in the toxic home. Which it feels like the kid can do that to the women. I like how the women stated in the end of the video that majority of the women can get out of toxic relationships and their goal should be to learn how to be in a good one. Maybe having choosing a good partner will raise a good child.
During Katrina I was living in Memphis. Went down after work to help refugees file for benefits etc. Had to be escorted out, the people were so crazy and violent. They needed volunteers for weeks, but most of us never went back. Just wasn’t safe.
Americans aren't refugees
Some showed up in our little town. The guy thought he would jump someone waiting for gas! He is pushing up daisies! Lol 😅😅😅😅
Memphis? You live dangerously.
They weren’t refugees; they were U.S. citizens. My family suffered through Hurricane Katrina and some lost their homes.
How could an American be a refugee?
I had to layover in New Orleans for 1 night because of an Amtrak trip. I was dying for a beer/drink so bad I left the hotel,..ran down the middle of the street for three blocks to a convenience store,...bought my adult beverages,...ran back down the middle of the street to the hotel,.....thanked God I was still alive and started drinking.
That, my friend, was a literal beer run!!!! Glad you made it!!!
Happy you made it but I'd Never try it...
You did it, you brave son of a B
😂
Fkn hell! I stressed out reading your story! Glad you still with us!!
More money will never fix the problem, what they and most of America is lacking is personal accountability.
Gentrification is the only answer
yea look at the homeless problem in California. shit tons of money. where does it go? Rogan said they have a bunch of people making over $250k/year on homeless commitees. how do I get that job
There will never be a white mayor . Figure it out.
United States not america
100% right
I read that Louisiana gives more tax dollars to corporations as incentives to do business in Louisiana than any other state by far, and thats part of the reason why their budgets are always struggling.
Exactly. Lots of kick backs and corruption.
It's amazing how people who live in these violent cities keep voting for their own demise. Excuses, excuses is all you'll get.
I swear…they taking the money…can’t even tell nick what they need
Total Ignorance!!!!
FACTS 👍
Cause the rest of Louisiana that keeps voting republicans in, statewide, have set such a “great” example of what and how to create modern day utopias…..
Poverty and ignorance go hand in hand. The south and Deep South is dominated by conservative politics. Poor whites vote against their interests at the same rate that poor blacks do. It’s not part and partial to any specific ethnicity. Poor people tend to be dumb…period.
Coming from a police officer in a neighboring parish. It’s not just the city. It’s getting worse everywhere’s.
Did you used to police NO?
As a New Orleans Native, this 100% hits home in more ways than one. The city I grew up in died when Katrina hit, and it just hasn't been the same since. I love my city, always will. But I simply cannot make any excuses for what it has become. I have not returned to live there since leaving the day before Katrina made land fall. I got family there who still want to live, but it's just not for me. And with the way things are, visiting isn't really much of an option these days. It's more of a chance than an option. Before I do something I'll regret, it's best I stay away. It won't get better in my lifetime.
Every bit of it is crooked, and it just makes me beyond flabbergasted by how folks keep voting these criminals in office who don't give a damn.
The entire state is depressing, and is the most corrupted state in America
@@alexanderchenf1 You're not wrong there. I'd rather take the fuckery going on here, than ever head to California, specifically San Francisco. We got some nut jobs in Louisiana, but I wouldn't set foot in San Francisco with how some things are, and I got family living out there.
They left Louisiana to go live in SF to get away from the fuckery, only to deal with more fuckery.
@@DarkValentine1984 since they picked SF, they deserved the consequence of their decision. Thanks for the information.
@@alexanderchenf1 Of course. Anytime. Down here in Louisiana, we're an open carry state. You only need a permit if you plan on doing concealed carry. Cops out here in The Boot aren't going to say anything if you're using your weapon in self defense. Because since it takes cops forever to even show up anyway, folks take matters into their own hands. Just the other day, it took cops 16 hours to respond to an accident on the Twin Spans, and by the time the cops got there, they were upset that the person who was involved in the accident was already gone.
Can't really blame folks down here in The Boot for being on the ready at all times, just in case. Pretty much non-existent in California. So yeah, we got a LOT of nut jobs in New Orleans, but those same nut jobs also know that 9 out of 10 people are packing, so they are always taking a big risk picking a mark.
@emersonshiff8132 Personally wouldn't even go so far as that. Folks looking for free stuff with or without participation of people like me who would gladly give them a nomination for the 2023 FAFO award, need not have to go far if they want to find out.
In other words: They are free to test that assumption at their own personal convenience.
New Orleans went south when RICO happened in the 80s and crushed the Mafia. The mob and unsupervised cops used to keep it fairly civil.
I remember Jack Ruby was a made Man in the Gambino family , he took his orders from Sam Giacanna , That ordered JFK assassination, then Sam was allowed to leave the country to Mexico , and remain there for several years after the murder,
Checks and balances. Old timey folks in Rhode Island used to say the same.
“The mafia kept the city safe” is such a bone headed statement.
@@BxArcadia I’m from there. It is a true statement.
Interesting comment and I think you're right. But nobody wants to credit the mob do they?
Her being in the office for 20 years is the big problem !
Exactly. People in the comments have better solutions than her🙂
@@blackdiamond696burnout and complacency is very real. 20 years of doing the exact same thing would make anyone sleepy in their job
@@DannyGruesome She wants to blame the criminal justice system for punishing criminals. She is part of the problem.
Look who is running the city. That’s the problem.
What did she or any of the government workers say that was wrong?
18:00 this conversation reminded me of something a friend of mine explained. He grew up in a ghetto in San Diego. We were driving through the area, and he was explaining to me the microculture and mentality. He explained to me if he saw someone breaking into his neighbor's car, he would turn away and act like he didn't see it. He wasn't going to get involved in someone else's business... he might tell his neighbor, but he would never tell the police in a million years. I was blown away.
Yeah they call it "snitchin" because no one is going to tell the police when they are criminals themselves.
Something for kids to do? 1. Pick up trash 2. Mow some lawns 3. Paint 4. Go to work 5. Go to school
Agreed. I was poor as a child and did many odd-jobs for an income, not robbing people etc.
WAYYYYYYY to many kids dropping out of school down here in Louisiana and I met plenty of them.
Yes exactly
Study
Part time work
Internship
Clean life and surrounding.
If you believe in God jesus christ that's a bonus.
@@clockspacefilms3025 for sure. I was one of them.
“Pick up trash” 😭😭 amazing standard to strive for
As a person who personally loves visiting NO, it’s mostly because it feels like a third world country… and that’s sad
For over 20 years, New Orleans was part of my territory. LOVED the people and the food. I drove around much of the city , parts reminded me of being in a 3rd world country
Third-worldness in the richest country on earth!
@@KishorTwist Not what I saw!
Yes, you are so right; it looks just like one; I will never ever move back there. To be honest, growing up there kind of ruined my life. No opportunity and it's backwards as hell. The People there are so uneducated it's pathetic.
@@kennethbrownsher1264 Perhaps you should visit your eye care professional.
The issues in New Orleans have been around for generations and it will not simply be solved overnight. Katrina only made a bad situation worse. Like someone else commented, the politicians there are still using the good ole boy system of politics.
I suspect New Orleans always has been a shithole.
The black American ghetto mindset and culture is to blame. Rap music that espouses shooting at the police, beating women, using women as objects of sex, money at any cost, and violence raises these children to be thugs. And thugs they are!
Katrina was almost 20 years ago. And NO actually improved during the 2010s because the riff raff left due to the flooding. But now things are back to being terrible again.
Do you still use Katrina as an excuse? It’s been decades ago!!
Was Hurricane Ida like Katrina 2.0?
Trashanda is right in general. It does begin in the home. But specically it's up to men to stand up and be men by taking personal responsibility. Stop being baby-daddies and start being fathers.
And women need to stop having children they can’t afford with men who are not going to be fathers.
Those are men. Those are Super Gremlins. 😂
Yes and couple that with women not laying down with men who are crap to begin with and we wouldn't have this problem. Why sleep with men who you know are shity and most likely aware that they ha e other children they are not taking care of?
If the women would keep their legs closed there wouldn't be babydadies.
Corrupt government became apparent during Katrina.
Kids not being taught ethics and values and to respect others both in school and at home is the cause of our breakdown in society. It isn't a north or south thing. These kids that had no discipline grew up, that's what happened. And the kids now are being raised the same way if not worse.
Parents that are absent.
It used to be that if you came from a bad home, the schools would teach you how to have a better life, now they don't. They just miseducate and uneducate the kids.
When will y’all see that the gov created these conditions thru redlining, drugs, and poverty!!
Bull. Shit.
Federal money going into wars and banks instead of schools and neighborhoods is the reason.
Kids not being taught anything
The father of one of my classmates took his boat and went to rescue people after hurricane Katrina. They shot and killed him. I volunteered at our local sports arena that was functioning as a shelter after the hurricane. We had to use barricades to protect the good people from the thugs. They were given funds to help them buy necessities and many of them bought big screen TVs and cell phones. Sleeping on a cot in a temporary shelter and they buy a big screen TV. Then they were bused out to another city that would take them leaving the TV behind. We are in Louisiana so we tried to keep the bad ones and send the good ones to other states that were willing to take them in. It’s just a city of thugs.
The one's who are saying that there's nothing for the youth to do need to quit pointing fingers and do like our parents did when we were kids. Find an open field, cut the grass, make bases, get together and buy equipment and have some afternoon baseball. Children love it when adults get involved.
There would be a dispute over score keeping and they would start shooting each other 😢
*accidently cuts half a poor old farmers crop to make a baseball field
Unrealistic
@@Unrealistic-o9c Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t have anything particular exciting to entertain myself as a kid but found plenty to do outside without being a criminal.
Ridiculous excuses they’re making. The kids aren’t criminals because there’s no skating rink. They need the National Guard, long prison sentences and some gentrification.
Agree 100%. Was there for 3 months for training. It was a most depressing and difficult time I've ever had. NO is filled with negative vibe - just plain ugly. And very, very scary.
Some say it's very deep in the vodo land .an ju ju . Ugh it does have bad vibes 🤧
@@peggypasson8794 Many people are unaware that voodoo was regularly practiced for centuries in some areas of NO. It's no wonder bad vibes are felt by so many. Countless books from every time period, every continent, and every religion have been written documenting areas of land where so much blood was spilled in the conjuring of evil spirits that the very land itself had become tainted with negative energy.
It's hotbed for witch-craft. One day people will realize that shits real
@@peggypasson8794 oh i just commented same thing and then saw your comment
@@Daniel-gn6xzi dont think voodoo is responsible for the mass scale poverty
As a former NOLA resident, the problem with New Orleans is that outside the restaurants and hotels (which are very seasonal and WILL leave you destitute and hanging if anything remotely goes south economically) were there are no real jobs there for the common person unless you know someone. That, and with the tourists/ AirBnB they want big city rents without paying big city wages. It's the reason I left. But I loved that city before Katrina. It was a great place to be as a young man in my 30s, though even then trying as hell and probably should have moved sooner.
Cool name and channel avatar, you ever going to make any RPG videos?
You're spot on. The median income in the city is only around $26K per year which comes to around $2,167 a month. But rents in New Orleans are around $1,400 a month. Outside the Garden District, Tulane University, the French Quarter and a few other neighborhoods, New Orleans has become one giant slum.
As a mail carrier, I can see all the mailboxes on the porch, which means the carrier has to walk all those streets on foot! I can't even imagine.
That's crazy! My ex lives on the Westbank, and the post office made them get mailboxes in the curb.
ive been seeing amazon trucks with wire and bars over the window like mad max, some have bullet proof windows
I'm assuming you mean because of how violent some of these areas are. Attacks directly on USPS workers have only recently become more common in NO.
I'd feel for other carriers. UPS/FedEx/Amazon all have high value items. They'd make way better targets. And USPS is federal - the post office is kind of maniacal about obstructing mail (at least in some areas). Hopefully, people doing these recent attacks get the brunt of their fury.
It's kind of interesting - the postal service has been trying to hire near me for a while now. I would bet the same in NO. They advertise as absolutely no experience necessary - just need to be 18 (16 with a GED) and be a citizen. When that lady was talking about skilled jobs and people not qualifying for them - I wondered just how many jobs open in NO are actually skilled or don't offer training. I'm kind of betting that market for unskilled/training provided jobs is far bigger than she lets on.
Sadly, when you reward people for not working and take benefits from people working low income yet essential jobs because they "make too much" even if they can't afford rent and food - you end up in this situation. Why change? It's easier to follow the mail man around and steal then to go to work and have an uncertain future.
I agree 100%, I did a road trip for fun, in the South kind of like yours. I had fun on Bourbon street. I arrived at night coming from Houston 11:00pm. While looking for parking, made a wrong turn, before getting to my hotel on Bourbon street. My car got rushed by three people with bats. I thought I was going to lose my life. I rather go to Vegas anytime, I want to have fun. You cannot afford to make a wrong turn in New Orleans, literally. So unsafe for being a tourist town.
WOULD THOSE 3 'PEOPLE' WITH BATS HAVE BEEN BLACKS BY ANY STRETCH? BLACKS ARE THE PROBLEM. Why can't we say Blacks with Bats? I was chased by a Black with a Bat myself, running me down. BLACKS ARE EVERY CITY'S PROBLEM.
I was in New Orleans just before Katrina hit and just went back last month. The city was far more run down looking before Katrina. All those empty lots used to be shotgun houses and all run down. Now many of the worst buildings are gone and new roofs and siding on tons of homes everywhere. It even smells a bit better now……and it still has that Nawleans stank.
The last time I was in New Orleans for a business trip I vowed not to return. The scammers on the street would openly threaten you, and I tried to avoid venturing too far away from the French quarter.
@@Anita_Minute one of the street scammers who threatened me was one of the shoe scammers in the French quarter. I already knew about the scam and refused to reply to the several guys that made comments, but one of them kept insisting on commenting on my shoes with an increasingly threatening tone and staring me down with a grimace. At first I was trying to pretend it didn’t phase me, but eventually it just felt too unsafe and I got out of the area. Who knew the shoe scam could get threatening? 😂
Uhhh real easy, I have a gris gris spell you can use next time you accosted by gutter punks or those lil bches asking about your shoes etc. Ok it's voodoo so don't tell anyone, here it is.....
"GO FK YOURSELF" bam problem solved!
I was in NO right before COVID, like literally the week before it hit NO. That place was hella ghetto and I stayed in a nice hotel near the French Quarter. Even the French Quarter was sketchy as hell. I will NEVER go back to that hell hole.
Newsflash: the FQ is incredibly dangerous.
Highest crime rate per capita in the United States and that Mayor should prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
That sounds bad but it also kept mexico from getting 9 spots of top ten murder capitals in the world. NO is in the top 10 higher than rio capetown or kingston.
Most voters were satisfied with Mayor Latoya the Destroyer. The recall failed.
@@forestmcneir3325 Yes that just stunned me that the people of New Orleans were not chomping at the bit to recall that disaster La Toya the destroyer
I just can't believe they keep voting for their oppressors who do nothing but hold them back.
@@georgemichael9106 Breaks my heart! Lived in the metro for 38 years and still regard NOLA as home. Always will. Houston, where I was raised, and where I'm returned in 2016 is not as far along down the same road but the trend is not our friend.
I remember New Orleans a lot different than this tour so this tour is a bit heartbreaking for me to watch. Where are the Jazz clubs and the French diners and the Crawfish sellers and the Mardi Gras artwork and the Mimes and the artists besides Grafitti? Where are the River boat tours? Where are the Saints and the Cathedrals? What's going on? You mention education and bored children/people. All I see in this tour is houses, old, old houses. Where is the soul of New Orleans? Did they just lock themselves up in their houses and die playing Xbox? Did they forget how to paint? Did they forget how to play music? WTF?
That lady has no clue.
Can’t say New Orleans needs police, and won’t say anything about family values.
Sad
Yup, their job probably pivots on the fact that the people keep acting the same and dont really change.
They just talk in circles and say nothing. Nothing will work but the National Guard sweeping up all the criminals and locking them up for good. Those women get paid for do nothing jobs but still want more funding.
That may be part of the problem, but then again as Nick says in the video, Louisiana has the highest or second highest incarceration rate out of any Western democracy. We are really good at locking people up in this country, yet our urban areas continue to be dangerous and have been for years. It's mostly a cultural phenomenon that is uniquely American. We have all got to do better...
They need wrecking balls and bulldozers. I'll say it.
You mean that they did have rates like that.
In my opinion,I feel like politicians spend more money and time trying to fix other countries,while our own country is falling apart. Our country is getting very sick.
I heard today Biden is sending more weapons to the UK today. How many millions is that costing Americans.
Hard agree.
I went there a few years ago and I must say I was impressed with how depressing the city looks. Outside the French quarter I was surprised to see the amount of poverty all over the city.
It's strange how they keep voting for the same thing they need to think better of themselves
¿ Don't we all ? The two party duopoly is designed to manipulate, pacify with lies and control to the benefit of the political class belonging to either party.
Try a Republican Mayor. Haven't had one since the late 1800's.
@@yvonnepoole141 The Republicans run the state....are you kidding yourself?....and its one of the poorest and least educated states in the country
The politicians they vote for offer free stuff and programs which free crumbs, easy on criminals and horribly managed programs isn’t going to help anything but that what they want . Same thing in Chicago near where I live . These people are in the most part getting what they deserve .
@@dave0z96 Louisiana has been Republican run for many years. The state is perennially one of the poorest and least educated in the country and they also have a lot of crooked politicians and infrastructure.
You see this again and again in these Republican run states ...high poverty, low education and politicians and officials on the take
Look at the money scandal with Brett Favre in Mississippi....same situation
But the same good old boy Republicans are in office for decades and they control everything and their constituents get nothing.
Fair reporting Nick. This is my hometown and it saddens me to see this but it's not unexpected. With each passing generation, it gets worse and worse. It truly is generational poverty and it may be to a point where it isn't fixable. There are pockets of the city (neighborhoods) where community pride still exists (e.g. Lakeview...) but the criminal justice system is corrupt from the bail bondsmen to the DA to even the judges. Merely hiring more cops and paying them more won't do it. There are plenty honest, hardworking people in the poorer sections but they've been beaten down by the system and don't know where to turn.
And the biggest factor is the breakdown of the family.
I've seen it all my life from the Heroin that tore whole communities apart into war zones to the cops protecting the drug dealers I've seen it all, nothing will ever change until we have severe punishment for drug dealers, WHAT is wrong with are politicians why won't they do there job..
Any criticism of the criminals? Or is it all victimisation?
@@charlesphilhower1452 It's certainly one of the key factors but I ask the question "Why?". Why do so many of these kids fall into the hands of gangs at such an early age? Why does a life that leads nowhere seem so appealing to them? Perhaps a stronger family unit would help some but you can't raise kids in a crime (and drug) infested environment and expect many of them to turn out well. Are these families torn apart because of lack of job opportunities or are their "other temptations" that wreck the relationships? I was raised in a mixed race mid-city neighborhood in New Orleans in the 60's and 70's and there was very little crime and almost none of the violent type that you see nowadays. The gang, drugs, guns culture that exists has to be halted with better educational opportunities, an effective criminal justice system, and better leadership at the highest levels of city government just to name a few. The disintegrating family unit(s) situation is a tragedy and is generational. Not sure how you can reverse that.
@@johnmule9419 Always a victim, when immature children have children there is no one to teach the children how to be responsible. Back in the 1980s I worked in child protective services and many of my clients were being raised by grandmothers in their thirties, that were slightly more mature than their teenage daughter that had the child. When you go back in the record the situation was the same when the grandmother was young, that she was raised by her grandmother.
The fact is there are children that grow up in low income high crime areas that the parents insist that the children do not get involved with the nonsense on the street and insist that the children come directly home from school to avoid the nonsense.
These are the children you don’t see or hear about. Many of these children grow up to be successful, because they were taught discipline when they were young and end up moving out of the hood.
It is a hard way to grow but many that grow up that way are more determined to do well than many people that grew up in more privileged families.
Actually, I have to disagree with this one. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city and it never recovered.
I disagree. New Orleans was always like this. The 90s was probably the worse New Orleans has even been in terms of crime.
The missing resources that this woman cannot articulate are fathers in the home and attentive parents for those wayward children in those communities. So long as these people continue to have their hands out waiting for daddy government to give them more, the spiral downward will continue.
Yeah isn't it funny how people refuse to point that out initially when being interviewed. It's almost like all of us regular folk have to point it out for them. The lack of fathers in homes is unbelievably catastrophic to youth of both genders.
@@whirlwind6141true like we could talk about poverty and crime and while those are certainly issues even if you look at kids from poor families with BOTH parents still have better outcomes than poor kids from single moms. Yes, when it comes to girls, females who come from single moms tend to be more promiscuous leading them to possibly become pregnant as a teen or just from a guy who leaves just like HER dad did. As for the boys, males who come from single mothers are far more likely to get into both drugs AND crime. It’s disastrous for both sexes.
Im from NOLA and sadly this is one of major issues-fatherless homes & waiting for government handouts. Its like people here just think that living like this is normal & just how things are. It wasn’t until I lived with my dad in Dallas that my eyes opened
I know one thing, I don't know about other states, but NJ you can't survive on government assistance, you better have another hustle. I use to tell my former co-workers, its no reason getting upset about people on welfare, the government just take 10 cent out your check, every pay period. The big deduction, goes to the defense fund.
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Well said. My thoughts exactly 💯
It's a real shame, because it's a beautiful area with some of the kindest people. They just don't have any accountability. Considering the amount of money that flows into the city every year with tourists, they don't manage anything well. I was there on the film crew for a documentary about 7 months after hurricane Katrina. The Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Alabama immediately got to work cleaning up, while New Orleans left houses sit and rot in the Lower 9th. Finger pointing and waiting for government assistance was the general attitude of so many I talked to, where the other communities along the Gulf Coast were proactively supporting each other and looking for solutions. It was shocking to see the difference. I hope the city is able to turn things around for the next generation and not continue down the dark path they've been on for years.
I know this isn’t the politically correct thing to say but think of the demographics. I used to live there and so glad I moved away.
Mississippi is the only state more black than Louisiana. Alabama is 5th. What point are you making? Corruption is the real answer. And the people who sit in those seats are red and white and have been in power for generations. But keep blaming Blue. The whole state is red and looks exactly like this, but keep blaming blue.
I wonder what New Orleans, Chicago, East St.Louis, Haiti, and Lagos all have in common.
😂When asked about the police defunding she said, she does not know whats really needed to fix the city. That mindset is cause of that city's downfall. Before this question she was saying we need to fix education, have jobs, etc.
She knows exactly what are the problems my dear . She just isn’t going to say it for fear of any backlash. You know how everybody is ready to cancel everybody.
The color code of this area tells the True story. Sad but true……
If you want to know whats happening to every major city in the US, look at Zimbabwe
It's start with the break down of the family. Most of these criminals don't have a father figure in their life.
System benefits single mothers. Black people had stable famíies in 50s. Then the welfare state started.
need to divide america with a fence, democrats in the south, conservatives in the north, only way to stop the destruction
It starts with people not caring about being part of a society. The breakdown of the family, as you put it, is because women don't have to put up with abuse or just unfair treatment from their husbands anymore.
Well, women are trained from birth to aspire to marriage. Men are encouraged to avoid it, “ball and chain”, and all that. Why would a guy want to get married when society teaches him that settling is the death of fun?
Single moms don’t become single moms by magic. The men leave and aren’t shamed for it. They’ve been taught to run away, and until that changes, they’ll keep on running.
It started with Black Peonage, Convict Leasing, and Mass Incarceration to continue a form of slavery after it was abolished. This was the Gross National Product, FREE LABOR. It built this entire country's wealth and continues to this day, it's no mystery...
16:30 She can't say it because she can't break ranks and lose funding. The solution is family, education, police, accountability.
If you care about our children,watch out for the migrant muslim invasion on Italy! Youll have sharia law before you know it. Didnt the Roman conquest of Carthage teach Italy anything for these times in history?
As a teenager I never felt the need to spray paint my name over every wall or building I passed. I get artful graffiti, but tags are just ugly, pointless and ridiculous.
When did rapping about murder and killing become entertainment?
The comment about not being able to make progress when you're always recovering from something is so true.
That last lady you interviewed is the main culprit of the problem. She is invested in her ideas even if they're not working.
Exactly. People in the comments have better solutions than her😉
That first lady in the interview couldn't even talk about the law enforcement problem . I for sure know who they're voting for ..again and again .
It's nauseating to watch.
Louisiana had a GOP governor from 08 to 16. It was a crap hole back then to.
@@nunyanope4988that's the state lol
@@ルナチャイルド-q1m You think the state or Louisiana is in any better shape then New Orleans? Mkay big guy 🤣
@@nunyanope4988 Demographics :)
Nick, lack of money isn't the problem. While we have spent trillions on wars, in that same period we spent roughly the same amount on transfer payments to our poorer citizens. And we have nothing to show for those trillions, either.
In February 1986 - 37 years ago - I went to New Orleans on business. I had a few free hours, so I drove around roughly the same 'hoods you traversed in this video. They looked about the same back then, except there were more houses.
You have nothing to show because most of the trillions here have gone to administrative fees which is BS, it’s a racket!
Sorry you’re clueless.
Money is not the problem ?
Lol
Try living without money.
Pattern Las Vegas ? Biloxi ? Party and gamble ?
Corruption is core business of most politicians, make money is the root of most problems
Same hoods ? Poor can’t move duh
@@ONE1BEAT i live in a latin american city much poorer than New Orleans in a country much poorer than the USA, and the murder rate is 21 per 100.000 residents, as opposed to 70 per 100.000 residents in New Orleans. These "bad" neighbourhoods in New Orleans look middle class in my city, where poor people live in slums over the hills. Oh, and also there is zero tolerance towards shoplifters, if one wants to steal sth from a shop here, it must be at gunpoint, otherwise you will be beaten badly.
@@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname thank you for sharing
Family’s values & strength does play important part in lives
I remember during Katrina, the news reported that there are dead bodies lying in the streets and someone commented, "What else is new?"
Nick interviews two black women, and there was not one mention of race. Then he interviews the liberal white woman with the purple hair and she's the one who brings up race.
It’s always the white liberal
Virtue signaling and ignorance. Nothing is worse than a liberal white women. Trust me....
I live in the Bay Area...California.
Because it’s a factor fool. Did you listen to hear explain 🥴
Well, whitx people invented wokeism ideology. It's one of the worst ideologies out there.
Because if we bring up race then what we say is automatically invalidated. Race relations are very real and a huge part as to why the south is so broken
That lady pushing the race card was a big turn off. She appeared to be a woke Karen - the black women didn’t even do it. They came off way classier.
Exactly. She is definitely part of the problem.
The black didn't bring up race because they never take accountability
You're actually part of the problem if you're denying what she stated about the white criminals go through programs while the black men get sentenced right off the top. I literally had this discussion the other day. Saw white dudes I personally knew growing up get in trouble many times for coke offenses, burglaries, etc and get these programs then land great jobs, record cleansed, while many of the black dudes I knew committed far less serious crimes one time and get a record automatically and could never land a job . Both of you guys on here are out of touch.
Clearly the woke white guilt is keeping her in her job.
That mysterious white man getting off scott free was one versus how many non white crimes?
Wild to hear you say that these people are not trying because of free handouts. When this entire video showcases people just surviving. People don’t resort to violence because they are prospering. See a lot of people casting shame on the people who live here. Learn your history and learn how hard it is to truly move out and away from these places.
The second chick can't see that the people committing the crimes and not working are simply bad. She thinks it's the system and environment that's driving the crime but nothing about the facts that it's a certain population group that wants to commit crimes and wants to live in a culture of criminality.
She points out that there were school dances every Friday in the past. Well, there was so much violence by those kiddies at the dances that they couldn't continue. I guess the punch and decorations just weren't to the kiddies' liking.
New Orleans could’ve been the Montreal or Quebec City of the USA if not for corruption 😢
Tbh the US is young country you guys need a few more civil wars and revolutions
I will respectfully disagree. The cities you mention are predominantly French-speaking and French culture is very much alive. In New Orleans, hardly anyone speaks French and apart from a few neighborhoods like the FQ and maybe in its cuisine, French culture is not prevalent. Even the FQ is not that French; the neighborhood you see today was actually built by the Spanish when they occupied Louisiana after the original city was destroyed by a fire in 1794. The iron balconies you see in many apartments will remind you of a village in Andalusia more than anyplace in France.
Nope, gotta remove the blacks for that to happen.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 They rooted out the French speaking people and replaced it with Dixie redneck culture
Word is, the mayor is payed by soros to keep chaos ensuing
Part of the issue in New Orleans now is lack of affordable housing. All of the mess we deal with with air bnb is ruining our city and the ability of the people who have lived here for years to continue.
What's the difference between the communities that are in complete disfunction, filled with crime, poverty & economic wastelands and the communities with economies, people and families that thrive and grow?
The difference is discipline.
There is no discipline in the dysfunctional communities. The schools are a complete mess because undisciplined students run roughshod over their teachers and treat them with absolute contempt. The families in disfunctional communities have no work ethic, no commitment to self improvement and no father to make the children behave. Crime runs rampant because criminals aren't disciplined for their behavior. The social worker who s a id we can't incarcerate our way out of this problem is wrong. We can, we should and it lowered crime rates in the 90s.
Without the rule of law, the rule of thugs prevails. What business wants to invest in a community that's going to let thugs run amok? You don't need to entertain the kids. You need to educate them. Establish good order and discipline in the schools. Throw out disruptive and violent students. Then teachers will be respected and learning can start. Without discipline, learning cannot take place.
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@chk3700 What business wants to invest in a community that let's thugs run amok? See San Francisco.......Detroit.......Baltimore.......Chicago........St. Louis
I agree with most of what you said, however discipline comes from culture. Culture instills values like discipline. This is ultimately a cultural issue. Just look at the Asian, Indian, and Jewish communities. Very strong cultures that value family, education and achievement. And this is not a racial thing as you can even look at the West Indie and African communities which are thriving. This is a cultural issue with native born blacks.
@@jirky015 there are no thriving African communities.
@@cknorris3644 In the US? Absolutely Nigerians are doing very well. Very educated.
I appreciate how you are interviewing the residents. She is very proactive, no victim statements, no BS. Way to go!👍👍👍
Standing together on more important issues? We side with enemies of the cross? 1 John 2:22
Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
Excellent reporting! I've lived in California most of my life, and Nick's reportings have made a window for me to see what is REALLY going on in the nation. Thank you so much Nick, great job!
I live in Metaire but work in the French Quarter. Covid did not do this. Everyone was getting unemployment and a lot of it. I remember when I went back to work we was so short handed. I was working in a restaurant and most of the time it was just me as a server. We needed help and not one wanted to work. The women here is a big issue. This is a family curse having child after child from any man they have sex from. Parents do nothing with there children and wants hand outs after hand outs. New Orleans has the worst mayor in history. The biggest issue is Drugs. Drugs is in every part of the city. It is sure a third world country now.
I was just in NOLA. My Sister, and I, visited with my Sister’s old college roommate. Her job was within a third party organization brought in to investigate police incidents within the force. She said violence within the police force was a problem. Meaning police killing/ injuring other police. She said the corruption was a continuing issue. I found this extremely interesting. How can they effectively do their jobs with this going on? There is a HUGE shortage of police, even in the worst areas. Interesting video Nick! Thank you!
And ain't it funny that BLACKS RUN THE PD. Black mayor. Black DA. Black judges. The problem is TOO MANY BLACKS. Blacks are always the problem. BLACK TEEN KIDS PULLED OFF A WHITE ELDERLY WOMANS ARM when they carjacked her, just ripped off her arm, she bled to death in the street. BLACK TEENS DID THAT. And All we hear is POOR BLACKS, NO OPPORTUNITY, its all BULLSHIT.
Blacks have had every opportunity & the only thing Blacks do is get worse. BLACK BASTARD KIDS ARE KILLERS and somehow its everybody elses problem. BLACKS ARE THE PROBLEM.
*French people founded this charming city and look what you did with it...* 🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂🤦🏼♂🤯
*Same for Saint-Louis, Détroit & Chicago...* 😢
*What a SHAME...*
It seems like the residents don't want anything better as they keep electing the same type of people back into office. Unless something changes with the mindset of it's inhabitants, crime and poverty will be the norm.
Always easy to say from the outside. There’s a lot more to politics when crime, money, and corruption are involved.
There’s a lot to love about NOLA
@@Khanfuzed1 It's the same story in every democrat controlled city. Black people need to wake up as they want to keep you uneducated and poor
I agree TOTALLY. How can you begin to expect a semblance of change & functionality when you vote ignorance & incompetence into office ?
@@tammy5654 Thank you for your response. We have to take control of our own educational system. School choice would be a good start.
@@tammy5654 guess you haven’t seen the quality of politicians all around the country. Lol
My family took a bike tour thru the whole 9th Ward in 2014. We hit every single street and honestly I've seen many places way worse. There are a lot of great people here and neat architecture. Also had the best po-boy I've ever had in my life at a gas station
Danny and Clyde's?
"In 2014" is key, that's almost a decade ago. The city has become much more of a shithole since then.
In 2013 they spent 400 million on a new prison, but knowing a dude that went to the inner city Nola schools, they didnt have enough textbooks per kid.
It all starts at home.. Being soft on crime doesn't help at all..
14:20 Imagine that, Trashanda says she needs more money. 23:45 Misty says it's everyone else's fault. 28:45 Marie says she has done very little for the community but gave multiple years salary to the BLM scam.
The system was broken for African Americans long before this, but the majority of non African Americans do nothing as it works for them.
Fucked up priorities.
ABsolutely. These are all liberal talking points. Liberals always neeed "more funding", "more resources" etc.
Deep down they know they just don’t want to admit the culture is the root of the problem rather than poverty
Please google the tax breaks that the state of Louisiana gives petro chemical companies. There is corruption all over the state. Is so interesting how uninformed you all are.
Once known for the biggest party on Earth, the birthplace of jazz, where you let the good times roll. "Politicians thought, How can we screw this up?"
You're SO RIGHT about New Orleans. It's a shameful place. Ragged streets and infrastructure. Rampant crime, poor, depressed neighborhoods, drugs, thugs, and (except for a small few) a HUGE ABSENCE of COMPETENCE & FUNCTIONALITY in city leadership & criminal justice. Mostly ignorance and incompetence is voted into office there. Again, with the exception of a small few.
They place priority & emphasis on Mardi Gras, the Saints, and other non essential good time activities & events. Fixing crime, education, failing schools, the streets, infrastructure, the dysfunctional court system, and many other quality of life issues go COMPLETELY ignored.
SAD CITY, SAD PLACE, AND COMPLETELY DYSFUNCTIONAL.
As someone who doesn't live there or in America bit does like and support the Saints, I'm sorry
It’s a state-wide problem. Proud French/Spanish/catholic tradition.
@@weaponizedglitter69lol football is rigged. Have yourself a better time watching pro wrestling!
Right. Its a buch of celebration and drinking. But for what.
@@GNARLOUSEso is bssketball.
I lived in New Orleans during Katrina. I also was in the city working for the NOPD 2nd District throughout Katrina. New Orleans is a hard city to judge in 20 days. It has a lot of problems, I agree... that's why I left. The pay and politicians in the city are terrible. New Orleans and its residents have a certain grit and unbelievable character to them.
BLACK NOPD, BLACK MAYOR, BLACK DA, BLACK JUDGES, BLACK SHERIFF, BLACKS RUNNING THE CITY DOWN. Blacks are the problem! We got people calling in 911 & the dispatch Black Women TELL THE PERPS WHO CALLED ON THEM. Perps then hunt down the Victim they were called about in the first place ALL OF THIS IS BLACKS.
If I were a young dude in NOLA I would have to consider working for one of those car window replacement companies. We stayed on a block and a half from The World War II Museum and as we walked to the museum we saw three cars that recently had the side window smashed out. Each had used a piece of cardboard to replace it temporarily. My wife and I were there for five days and we averaged seeing one window smashed out everyday.
The driver of the city bus told me that he makes $32 an hour. Like a lot of jobs these days they need help.
Maybe the only bargain in The Big Easy is the ride from the airport to downtown. After arriving at Louis Armstrong International just grab your luggage and head upstairs to the back entrance ramp and jump on the 202 bus and for $1.50 you will be transported to multiple stops near the hotel district. Then you can walk to most hotels from one of those stops. Maybe the best part of the ride is that there isn't a tip bucket in sight.
Don't forget to ride the St Charles Streetcar out through the Garden District and see where the elites like the Super Bowl Champion Manning family lives. Also you can see where the rich send their kids to school at all of the private uppity places.
It isn't all bad in New Orleans
yeah courage to have the audacity to not expect being discriminated against but then demanding others do what they want according to their religion.
i was thought in philadelphia that you want to keep your rear window down, and put foggy plastic with razor blades stapled or super glued on, stops theft real quick.
That poor lady must’ve said “resources and services” about eleventy seven times. She don’t even know that until they are getting exactly what they keep voting for. She can’t see the truth..
Exactly, its black culture, a lack of accountability, and lack of true acknowledgement of root causes that is the problem. There's poverty in white communities but the violence isn't as high as it is in inner cities so whats the difference.... the black "culture" and a lack of accountability. Now before anyone says something foolish, I'm a black women, from Gary IN and I've watched inner cities die since childhood. So once again, a lack of accountability, a lack of acknowledgement of the root cause of the problem, and the culture are going to be black peoples ultimate down fall. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Every single member of the City Council belongs to the same political party. Isn't it time to try something else? Competition for the vote would maybe force the council members to offer better management to stay in power.
That's the problem! Leaders don't have the answers! They don't know what to do! They are just trying to survive like everyone else! So it has to be the people to decide what to do.
It makes you wonder sometimes because I think New Orleans got a lot of money after the hurricane are the politicians pocketing the money set aside for community development?
literally
Hi Nick & Mappy! I thoroughly enjoyed this video.Thank you! Your reporting is top notch,as always;& your sense of humor & sarcasm makes my day!! 👍💕🤗🙏✌️
Louisiana likes to compete with Mississippi for title of poorest paid teachers state-wide. When you are OK with being in that position, it is hard for education to help people pull themselves up,
New Orleans historically, has always been a city teetering on the brink of chaos and disaster. Not sure what you were expecting when you went down there, especially post Katrina, where it’s become clear as day that the city never fully recovered from whatever it was pre Katrina, when I lived there (03-04) The city and that region, having been sinking, literally and figuratively since day one-ish. Historical slow burn.
Domestic violence is escalating because these men need jobs to get them out the house because they don't know how to control their emotions
Nick go hard or go home! And you went hard riding through the hood like this. No kidding. I was born and raised in New Orleans and in the bricks too. We played outside, came in when the street lights came on and generally had morals. Today children aren't being raised at all. Few parents are responsible. Government has always been corrupt, today it's turned up! Cantrell has to go along with her cronies. No solution is the sum of it all. Most true New Orleanians has moved away and won't come back. The criminals are in control. Somebody turn the lights out and put everybody out of their misery. This beautiful city has lost it's mojo.
This lady is right, " whatever you learn, you pass on " exactly.........
One recurring theme from city to city: COVID. Walmart, Costco thrived while small businesses were shut down by official edict.
The government can rebuild entire neighborhoods with new construction and they would have to purchase the home back
That's how you end a New Orleans video baby! New Orleans is surviving. It can thrive.
No it can't. The US in general is in decline which in already declined cities means its going to become worse.
Just wanted to say I've been really enjoying your videos of drive-throughs and explanations. Instantly pressed that subscribe button. Thank you for doing this Nick
Ok!
All these beautiful cities destroyed by corrupt career politicians. We need to clean out the entire government and bring our jobs back and rebuild our country from the ground up. We need to build things ourselves again and bring some pride back to this country
My 21 year old daughter has decided to travel to New Orleans for a fall break trip. But not without watching this video. Thanks Nick, I learn so much from your travels. 10 Sheriff's from Wyoming could turn New Orleans around in 3 weeks.
So what are those 10 sheriffs in Wyoming doing instead...?
If you see something wrong and can do something about it as first responders, what are you waiting for...?
Yeah, just what I thought....good, old-fashioned tough-guy, western frontier cowboy RHETORIC.
John Wayne is dead...
make sure to keep your wallets in your front pockets
Ten sheriffs would be going back to Wyoming in pine boxes.
@@williamwilson6499 You Got That right , 100 Sherrifs wouldn't be able to Do anything .
Please tell her to be careful because people are getting robbed in broad daylight. 😒
I spent 2 weeks working at the old police HQ in New Orleans a few years back, It was BAD. The police heard where what hotel we were staying at, and called our company to ask them to put us up somewhere safer. We couldn't even get pizza delivered to the police station.
The angry lesbian was so predictable
"Many were dead, had moved to Texas, or were felons" - As a Texan, I appreciate this.
I use to love to go to new Orleans but after my car was stolen an I never been back after that but you get what you vote for God save our country
My family lived in New Orleans since they came to America and in the past 40-50 years it’s gone straight to 💩 the corruption has all but destroyed a once beautiful city. We all live on the north shore now.
Lived in nola for 3 yrs. Have always said its the greatest city and the most effed up city. One things for sure - theres no safe area in the city ...at all.