Are you sure that wasn't after Katrina when there was a curfew? I went around that time and saw the National Guard with machine guns (at least i think they were machine guns). Never noticed super high security any other time. I last went in december for the new orleans bowl and didn't notice any army out there and I didn't get shot.
your post was just bitching about statistics. since the statistics clearly show nola is bad for murders, you are doing anything but saying "It IS bad".
Maybe you should read this a little slower.....the point I was trying to make in the post went OVER YOUR HEAD. It wasn't bitching. I know how bad it was/is, I lived in Fisher for 2 years as a kid. Living where I live now, I try to make "pilgrimages" down to Louisiana as often as possible to get a taste of home. The thing that I don't care for is people who claim to be FROM Louisiana complaining about it yet not doing anything about it to make it better. Hypocritical. If you like it so much better somewhere else, then get off your soap box or simply save up your dollars and GTFO. I know what the fucking stats are, I've read the links, thanks. It's never been a secret that crime has always been bad in NOLA. My point is this: WHO....is being murdered? Is it "normal" people? Honest, everyday folks? Working people? Or are most of the murders tied to the ghettos? Drug related crimes? See where I'm going with this? Just take off the "I'm gonna call you out Jackass" glasses off for two seconds. This is the reason my dad quit his job and moved me out of Fisher and back to Houma when I was a kid. Colin Cowherd, you're a fuckin asshole, and I hope you get a horrible case of genital herpes in your dirty little mouth.
More to the point, how does lobbying the NFL to take millions of dollars of tourism business out of New Orleans do anything to improve the quality of life for people living in that city?
It doesn't. Cowherd's always trying to stir shit. This is just what he does. He doesn't give a damn about Louisiana or the people in it, he's a leech.
New Orleans is also among the nation's leaders in something else -- developing businesses. http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/new_orleans_is_fast_becoming_p.html