Cap Black The Hood Conservative
Anti Crime Activist
Street Patrol Observation:
( New Orleans ): I see firsthand the lack of adequate police presence in the inner city and the Central Business District ( CBD ).
My three years of walking her streets and interacting with those in need; suspects and cops has revealed a shocking decline in the visibility and thus availability of the New Orleans Police department in this time period.
Plunging morale has led to an exodus from this agency for greener police pastures elsewhere at exactly the time when most residents feel less safe, despite a lower murder rate which, if we're candid, one bloody weekend can undo.
Officers now have a federal monitor peering over their shoulders. While outright villainy during the Katrina crisis is the cause, it doesn't make their jobs easier when every stop or use of force carries with it headline-making, career-ending prospects.
Add the new Office of Secondary Employment which manages their off duty security details and it leaves many in blue literally singing the bleus about not feeling safe from political punishment nor secure in providing for their families.
On the street level this has given New Orleans thugs the green light to rampage, rob, and rape like a demonic second line through not only the inner city but also majority White enclaves adjacent to it.
Canal St alone is an amazing open air drug market made all the more convenient given the lack of police scrutiny.
The notorious eleven hundred block and the McDonalds near the corner of Canal & University might as well have neon signs saying, " Get Your Drugs Here! No Waiting! "
When kids get out of school around 3PM, flash mob attacks on local merchants and gang fights are commonplace.
With an under-staffed, demoralized police department, it's only a matter of time before a high profile homicide happens in the city's show place, the Central Business District, also known as the CBD.
This is the grim harvest my street patrolling has netted in three years here, more homelessness, more street crime and less cops.
Against such a perilous backdrop, citizens need to speak with one voice demanding more cops and less social programs like midnight basketball!
" Be your OWN Superhero!"
" Be your OWN Superhero!"
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