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> This is intended to handle the increase of calls that are related to one incident, so callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are cal

> This is intended to handle the increase of calls that are related to one incident, so callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. This makes sense. I lived for several years in New Orleans, behind Wagner's in the Bywater. In 2022, it was ranked the 8th most dangerous city in the world. The gunfire was constant. Anyone who knows that corner knows the Family Dollar was so riddled with bullet holes that they eventually stopped repairing them. I'd be enjoying my morning coffee in my backyard, sitting on my bench with the neighbor's calico meowing at me, when fully automatic gunfire would ring out. I'd go to the Facebook group page, where people with military or gun experience would identify the type and caliber of the weapons involved. Then came the pictures of people's cars sprayed with bullet holes, and a story about someone lying in bed when a bullet whizzed over them and hit the opposite wall. That intersection has cameras everywhere! The police already know what happened. If someone wasn't murdered it would hours before they would come out and look. When I first moved there I lived in mid-city by 12 Mile Limit. Before I arrived, there was a triple homicide. Then there was a double homicide. The building on the corner had video of everything. They ended up towing the owner of the building's truck because it was evidence. She went to the impound to get it back because the bullet hole was from the previous triple homicide. During these incidents, which are often (getting better over the last couple years), hundreds or thousands of people can hear them. The sound of fully automatic guns can carry for blocks. Being able to handle all the calls focusing on the few that arrive first likely will improve the service.

sghiassy 1mo ago
Crazy, I stayed in Bywater for 3 months and went to Wagners often. I had no clue it was that dangerous. Seemed like a really great part of town. J&Js was one of my favorite bars
- bena 1mo ago
  It's not. Peak homicide recently was in 2022 and it was 280 deaths for the year. While not great, it's not "dodging bullets every day". New Orleans is also experiencing their lowest rate of homicide in years.
  - sghiassy 1mo ago
    I love New Orleans btw. I try to go there as much as possible
embedding-shape 1mo ago
> I'd be enjoying my morning coffee in my backyard, sitting on my bench with the neighbor's calico meowing at me, when fully automatic gunfire would ring out. I'd go to the Facebook group page, where people with military or gun experience would identify the type and caliber of the weapons involved. Then came the pictures of people's cars sprayed with bullet holes, and a story about someone lying in bed when a bullet whizzed over them and hit the opposite wall. Given you lived there for years, like how do you do that, staying there for so long? I'd avoid a place like that if I even thought stuff like that was going on there in the first place, but if I ever ended up in a place like that anyway, one instance of that happening would make me leave and move away from there immediately, anything is better than experiencing stuff like that even once, even less twice or more. There lives a ton of people in New Orleans, I'm guessing most of them are also as jaded/used to it as you? It's really hard for me to comprehend how so many people just get used to such constant needless violence around them, it sounds like a war zone to me, and people just... go to work and live a generally happy life while that just happens often? It's so foreign to me, and you write so casually about it, and people stay there?!
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- fooqux 1mo ago
  It's amazing what you can get used to.
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- ElevenLathe 1mo ago
  I've lived in cities not quite as bad as this (one of my earliest memories is my Dad pulling the family to the floor during a drive by right across the street), but the main thing to remember is that unless you catch a stray -- not impossible, but pretty unlikely as long as you hit the deck fast -- nobody is coming for you specifically. These are specific disputes about specific things (drugs, family, whatever) that don't involve you. It's not a school shooter who just wants to rack up kills. Stay down, mind your own business, and you'll be pretty safe.
howLongHowLong 1mo ago
I've lived in New Orleans since 2009, including several years at exactly the spot you mentioned. I don't understand why people insist on exagerating the violence to this level. It's not more unsafe than any American city (granted, any American city is more unsafe on account of gun violence than any other city in the world thats not in a war zone.) The gunfire is not "constant" - the Bywater is as a safe as any other hipster-gentrified neighborhood, and New Orleans has not been anywhere near the top of "most-violent city" lists for more than a decade. If this is an attempt to bring down property values, i'm here for it - I can't afford to live in that neighborhood anymore, mainly because of the influx of tech-workers making and spending more than people could possibly earn in the local economy - you know the types: they complain about shit on facebook groups instead of actually getting to know their neighbors.
- dataviz1000 1mo ago
  I did an internet search "gun violence new orleans louisa st. and st claude ave." and it confirms what I remember happening actually happened at that intersection. We can't trust Wikipedia, but still, in 2022, they put New Orleans at #8 with homicide rate. [0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20240106080401/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate https://web.archive.org/web/20240106080401/https://en.wikipe...

sghiassy 1mo ago

Crazy, I stayed in Bywater for 3 months and went to Wagners often. I had no clue it was that dangerous. Seemed like a really great part of town. J&Js was one of my favorite bars

bena 1mo ago
It's not. Peak homicide recently was in 2022 and it was 280 deaths for the year. While not great, it's not "dodging bullets every day". New Orleans is also experiencing their lowest rate of homicide in years.
- sghiassy 1mo ago
  I love New Orleans btw. I try to go there as much as possible

embedding-shape 1mo ago

> I'd be enjoying my morning coffee in my backyard, sitting on my bench with the neighbor's calico meowing at me, when fully automatic gunfire would ring out. I'd go to the Facebook group page, where people with military or gun experience would identify the type and caliber of the weapons involved. Then came the pictures of people's cars sprayed with bullet holes, and a story about someone lying in bed when a bullet whizzed over them and hit the opposite wall. Given you lived there for years, like how do you do that, staying there for so long? I'd avoid a place like that if I even thought stuff like that was going on there in the first place, but if I ever ended up in a place like that anyway, one instance of that happening would make me leave and move away from there immediately, anything is better than experiencing stuff like that even once, even less twice or more. There lives a ton of people in New Orleans, I'm guessing most of them are also as jaded/used to it as you? It's really hard for me to comprehend how so many people just get used to such constant needless violence around them, it sounds like a war zone to me, and people just... go to work and live a generally happy life while that just happens often? It's so foreign to me, and you write so casually about it, and people stay there?!

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fooqux 1mo ago
It's amazing what you can get used to.
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ElevenLathe 1mo ago
I've lived in cities not quite as bad as this (one of my earliest memories is my Dad pulling the family to the floor during a drive by right across the street), but the main thing to remember is that unless you catch a stray -- not impossible, but pretty unlikely as long as you hit the deck fast -- nobody is coming for you specifically. These are specific disputes about specific things (drugs, family, whatever) that don't involve you. It's not a school shooter who just wants to rack up kills. Stay down, mind your own business, and you'll be pretty safe.

howLongHowLong 1mo ago

I've lived in New Orleans since 2009, including several years at exactly the spot you mentioned. I don't understand why people insist on exagerating the violence to this level. It's not more unsafe than any American city (granted, any American city is more unsafe on account of gun violence than any other city in the world thats not in a war zone.) The gunfire is not "constant" - the Bywater is as a safe as any other hipster-gentrified neighborhood, and New Orleans has not been anywhere near the top of "most-violent city" lists for more than a decade. If this is an attempt to bring down property values, i'm here for it - I can't afford to live in that neighborhood anymore, mainly because of the influx of tech-workers making and spending more than people could possibly earn in the local economy - you know the types: they complain about shit on facebook groups instead of actually getting to know their neighbors.

dataviz1000 1mo ago
I did an internet search "gun violence new orleans louisa st. and st claude ave." and it confirms what I remember happening actually happened at that intersection. We can't trust Wikipedia, but still, in 2022, they put New Orleans at #8 with homicide rate. [0] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20240106080401/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate https://web.archive.org/web/20240106080401/https://en.wikipe...