A New Orleans grandmother gets murdered outside her grandson's high school graduation. A woman is killed in Mid-City during a brutal carjacking that tears her arm off. Multiple people get shot at a bar in the Garden District. There have been marches on New Orleans City Hall for past crime waves, but Gambit columnist Clancy DuBos says we're not seeing the same response as before.
"People are outraged, but instead of marching, they're moving," notes DuBos. "And that's really bad."
DuBos says it appears residents of New Orleans are feeling not just helpless, but hopeless, too.
"I think that's the really sad part about this, that people aren't marching, because politicians respond to public outrage," he said. "Sometimes it's the only thing they respond to."
And he says it is strange that we aren't seeing that public push directed at Mayor LaToya Cantrell like we have seen with past mayors in similar circumstances.
"As long as people aren't marching and getting outraged, there's no pressure on her, politically at least, to do more."