Maggie's Farm

The murder capital of the US. A quote from a�piece by Gelinas in City Journal:

When New Orleans began slowly to come back to life after Katrina, it enjoyed a respite from violent crime, one that residents and their elected leaders thought would continue indefinitely. New Orleanians had a �sense of euphoria about the city being a new city, that the violent crimes just weren�t there,� says U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, who handles federal cases for Louisiana�s eastern district. But after roughly ten weeks of peace, murders�many drug-related and acquaintance-based�started to appear in the headlines again. Then, as the city�s population began returning in greater numbers last spring, violent crime roared back �with a vengeance,� as Letten puts it. The highly publicized shooting death in March 2006 of 28-year-old Michael Frey at the hands of a street robber in the Faubourg Marigny, a funky neighborhood on the outskirts of the French Quarter, seemed to trigger in many New Orleans residents the realization that things were now back to �normal.�

Read the whole thing.