Constructed Inequality: How New Orleans Became a Case Study in America’s Urban Crime Crisis
April 6, 2025
Every time someone points at New Orleans and says, “See? Another murder. Another carjacking,” they ignore the reality: the conditions behind crime in cities like ours weren’t random—they were built, layer by layer, over decades. From government-backed redlining to the hollowing out of urban communities through white flight, and the devastating rise of mass incarceration, […]
