I still live here, and I'm sick of the "Crime is part of the character" narrative. The Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Treme can have plenty of character without the risk of getting mugged biking home from work.
Still here as well and I really have some awful sounding opinions on this subject.
It's hard to ignore that in the deep south white people are afforded enormous privilege in many ways. And these gutter punks (transients) are overwhelmingly white, young, able bodied.
I wish they all go home to their white privileged families.
