Earlier this year Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced a $40 million investment in public safety. That money’s being spent on things like surveillance cameras, brighter LED fixtures in the French Quarter, and 300 squad cars for the NOPD.
This got the crew of The Listening Post thinking about how effective those investments are and whether people feel safe in their city. We asked:
1. How safe are you feeling as you move around New Orleans these days? Where do you feel safe in the city? What places do you try to avoid or tell others to avoid?
2. Tell us about a time you felt unsafe in New Orleans. What’d you do about it?
3. When you see the police, do you feel more or less safe?
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