New Orleans: 3 Dead, 7 Injured In a City that Spent Thousands to Take down Historical Statues

Do you think that high crime cities such as New Orleans and Baltimore should spend their limited resources on more police protection for their citizens.......instead of ‘virtue signaling’ by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars taking down beautiful historical statues that have been in place for over a century???:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/28/us/new-orleans-shooting/index.html

 

100 homicides in the Chocolate City since January 1st, and now they're concerned...

 

Drugs and Gangs what can you say. Either get real real serious, ie draconian, about dealing with both issues or quit bitching and moaning about it..

 

Maybe they should send some of their diversity to New Hampshire.

 

Lots of room south of the border and it's closer.

 

Mayor LaToya Cantrell said “There is no place in New Orleans for this type of violence”........this from the mayor of a city which seems hell bent on passing Chicago for the lead in weekly shootings.........all the while focusing their time, money and resources on tearing down historical statues........

 

I've no problem with them killing each other off.

 

At least no one was offended by those historical statues while being shot at by street thugs. #NOLApriorities

 

That’s a great description they gave of the murderers, hoodies.

 

Well yes, hoodies are needed in late July in New Orleans.

It is a chocolate city afterall.

 

The OP seems pretty desperate to connect something negative to a city's decision to change its mind on what art or propaganda it wants displayed on its property. If the city of New Orleans wants its pictures or statues or collages, or etchings moved or sold or stored for whatever reason, it can bloody well make that call.

A local decision to honor someone with a statute a century ago is not supposed to reflect some contractual obligation lasting in perpetuity.

 

Yes, the city absolutely can spend it's money on removing statues, all the while ignoring the crime problem that plagues that same city.

 

You have not shown any connection between this expenditure and this 'crime problem' growing, shrinking or staying the same. Your sentiment makes as much sense as saying a city can spend its money on more traffic lights along First and Main streets, or on a new air conditioning system at city hall, or a 2% raise in the clerks office budget, all the while ignoring the 'crime problem'.

If they are ignoring the crime problem, they would have done so regardless of decisions to remove or refurbish those park statues.

 

Spending money on traffic lights probably would have been more useful. Good example.

 

You are desperate, aren't you? The city is doing just fine without those statues. Nobody cares that they are gone.

 

‘More traffic lights’ is a normal public project that benefits all of the cities citizens. Tearing down beautiful 100 year old historical statues was virtue signaling by a mayor who wants to run for President........and did not benefit the city’s citizens as a whole. Think of how many cops could have been out on the streets of NO for what that cost........

 

So it didn't lift the oppression and stop the crime?

 

How am I desperate?

Yes, the city is doing just fine. Hence the OP.

 

I know, shocking isn't it?

 

where they black guys with hoodies? white hispanic wtf

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/28/new-orleans-shooting/858649002/

 

I'd give you one guess and you'd probably get it right the first time.

 

More traffic lights does not benefit ''all'. It benefits those citizens that are drivers that travel those streets or homeowners on those streets that got the lights., I have gone years without gaining any benefit from a traffic light on the Northern end of my town, because I never drive there. The city seems to be just doing fine without those statues. People have not been racing to counseling appointments or calling suicide hotlines or rioting in the streets because those statues are gone. As to the potential benefits of the removal and the potential liabilities, I am fine letting the political system in New Orleans weigh the pros and cons. It did and guess what? One side lost the battle and a decision was made.. Get over it. New Orleans apparently has!

 

I don't think they are spending any more money on it now. Since they are gone, no?

Love New Orleans.

 

I suppose we have different definitions of ‘doing just fine’. I am one of many folks I know who have no intentions of returning to ‘the Big Easy’ after experiencing crime there......

 

Just don't go out alone at night. Pack a gun for self defense, but otherwise, it's just fine.

I'm from there. I'll never go back.