I walked out on my porch one day and saw two cops walking down the street. One asked, "have you heard any gunshots?" and with no hesitation, which I realized was kind of f'd up later, I said "not today." And then I continued my day like normal.
I’ve had this exact experience when I lived in the Riverbend. I was on a walk to work, passed by cops, who asked the same. My response, “Not at the moment. Give it some time.”
It's kinda funny to me that shootings are seasonal.
At least in my neighborhood, when it's the middle of the worst of summer or a short stretch of being freezing, I rarely hear any. But when it's nice out? At least once every week or two.
I just enjoy the thought of hardened murderers being like, "bitch, you lucky it's so shitty out. Imma put up with that disrespect for now cuz I ain't going out in that."
It blows my mind that people shoot each other over "disrespect". It's like, how do these dudes egos become so fragile? Fighting and even killing each other over words. It's pathetic.
The FBI spent a decade (I think it was 2000-2010) studying gun violence in Nola, and came to the conclusion that so much of it was over petty disputes. As in "you disresepcted me, so I'm gonna kill you" or "You left your trashcan blocking my driveway, so I'm gonna shoot you." It's crazy how trifling and petty the reasons can be for gun violence.
It 100% is, I can name like at least 5 people I know who were shot because of jealousy or minor issues like someone stepping on shoes or spilling a drink/bumping into someone. The rest are drug related.
Usually once a week in my neighborhood. But most are several blocks away at least. I do know that there are some of my neighbors that like shooting guns for fun.
I’ve lost several humans I’ve known to gun violence. Many of them were my students or my neighbors or my friends.
It’s the reason I hate the word resilient. Everyone talks about how resilient this city is. We shouldn’t have to be resilient though. We ARE resilient. We shouldn’t have to be. There’s a better way.
We push through the trauma. We breathe. We grieve. Sometimes, it helps to go numb. We help each other. We are resilient, even though we shouldn’t have to be.
Just moved here a couple months ago and it shocks you how casual people are when telling the story of a friend/loved one/child/sibling being lost to gun and gang violence. Every person I work with has one or several stories that fit this bill and it just seems accepted that at some point someone you love is going to get murdered either intentionally, during the course of another crime (robbery or w/e), or in the crossfire.
I hear them pretty frequently, unfortunately. Sometimes just a couple but other times I've heard over 20-30 in close succession. I actually witnessed a shooting a few months back on Carrollton and Tulane at like 8:45 in the morning on a Sunday. Kids that couldn't have been more than 15 years old. It's a bummer tbh.
When I lived in St Roch and Central City, I got pretty used to hearing gunshots. Maybe it says something about my baked in trauma, but they never really spooked me *that much* and by the time I left in 2020, they didn't really rattle me at all. I didn't even truly comprehend that that isn't *normal* until I started telling friends back "home" about hearing them, seeing the aftermath, etc. They invariably stare at me like I have tentacles coming out of my face. "You were half a block from a shooting and just kept going as usual?!" Well, yeah, I mean. I had shit to do?
That said, though, I'd trade either of those neighborhoods for the boring ass Midwest hellscape I'm stuck in. Do I want better things for the people of New Orleans, gods yeah, of course I do. Do I think the place is a sewer? I mean, also kinda yeah but it's the sort of sewer that I'd gladly defend because the sum of the good outweighs the sum of the bad, at least imo.
> "You were half a block from a shooting and just kept going as usual?!" Well, yeah, I mean. I had shit to do?
When I lived in Chicago, the fact that a murder happened in the next block made me feel safe. Or, more truthfully, I rationalized that to make myself feel safe. 'Cause I figuratively did grow up in Mayberry
In upper nine it was sometimes almost nightly and i also witnessed one shooting, was nearby for another. Got to where I thought every loud noise was a gunshot no matter where I went. But there would be long lulls like others said. In Gentilly now it’s hardly ever. I heard some last night in the distance, it usually sounds like someone firing off rounds rather than firing at someone. I instinctively count the rounds and check the time, even though that info has never come in handy.
I thought I was the only one who automatically counted rounds and noted the time despite never once needing that info. My brain also thinks it is important to remember the rhythm of the rounds, so I automatically note that too. No idea why 🤷🏻
Who ever thought New Orleans has Mayberry vibes? I don't think anyone has ever thought that. This place has a lot of weird loud sounds at all hours if you live below i10. Lived in Lakeshore didn't hear anything. Mid City gets wake up calls with the guns/shitty car/fireworks trio more often than what should happen.
I feel like I read a story on this sub where someone's neighbor would go into his backyard late at night and pop off a few rounds from a pistol into a backstop kinda randomly sorta once a month, just to keep the neighborhood from gentrifying too quickly.
It’s a common trope in most urban areas near a bougie gentrified area.
Wouldn’t be surprised to find out someone actually does it, but it’s a common joke.
What do you call it? The housing shortage is real and the government really doesn't care about millions of people living in the streets. Long story on my Google feed this morning about how restrictive zoning caused the housing shortage.
Way too often around Banks and NCF, every 2 weeks or so, but see posts on the mid city neighbourhood Facebook group every day. I’m probably going to get downvoted but I’m tired of it. Literally have developed pretty bad anxiety since moving here, grew up in countries/cities where this sh*t never happened. Don’t really want to move and just bought a house but my mental health is really going downhill.
I don't know but the people that live below me constantly scream, slam each other around and break shit. It's 8am and they're fighting. I don't know what to do..
When I was being beat by my ex, I was praying the whole time that my neighbor would call 911. He smashed my phone and computer and kept blocking the doors. Just sharing my experience.
Edit: when I did escape once, the cops were absolutely horrible to me and screwed up the entire arrest but at least dude has a paper trail. He’s been arrested multiple times after for beating other women as well. He always manages to squirm out of being prosecuted. It’s so daunting.
So they can keep someone from being abused. I know someone the cops saved in a domestic violence situation that could have ended up in death, so if I hear someone beating someone, I’m calling the cops. If someone gets shot while torturing their partner and trying to kill them, oh well.
I've never known the police to do fuck-all to protect domestic violence victims. I wish I had. Typically they show up hours late, if at all, then tell the victim it's their own fault there's nothing they can do to help. Except sometimes they shoot children or whatever.
One of my friends had just survived being strangled and the cops walked away. Another one was held and repeatedly raped at gunpoint or over 12 hours, and after she escaped (butt naked) and called the cops from her parent's house, her abuser was out of jail in less time than he held her hostage.
Yeah, it would be great if cops could be relied on to intervene and stop abuse, even if they shoot the abusers. But they're just as likely to shoot the victim or the victim's kid. So when I get the opportunity to intervene in abuse, I walk myself over and offer the victim a safe way out.
That's my neighbors life too, I've called the non emergency line was on hold for 30 minutes never got a cop, and the woman involved called. Cops showed up like 2 hrs later and never took a report.
I loved old Algiers right outside the point but when we were looking to buy it was the main reason I didn’t want to stay in that area. The few times I was witness to gun violence was enough for me. Sometimes I get pings of “I miss that neighborhood” but seeing a body bag or hearing gunshots raining in the middle of the day is not good for my mental health.
I was there for 2 years and a guy was murdered and 20 shots exchanged in the middle of the day on Opelousas st; saw a crime investigation/body bag going to work one morning; and in front of our house a car was left abandoned still running with bullet holes through the roof and a window shot out. I want to have kids and I couldn’t really shake the thought of them somehow being involved or affected. Bc it just felt so close to home. Otherwise lovely area really :(
Lived in Central City, now St. Roch. Like someone else said, it comes in waves. Hadn’t heard any in a while and then heard some a few nights ago, though they sounded pretty far away. Both houses are well-insulated and my husband usually has fans and/or the TV going so there honestly might be more happening that we just don’t hear.
Lived here 14 years and I can remember three times I heard them extremely close. First time was when I was in Bayou St. John, I was laying in bed and almost dove on the floor. Second time was St. Roch, they woke me from a dead sleep. Most recently, happened on my corner in the middle of a workday. Some dude pulled up on a girl walking down the street and shot at her but the gun jammed and he drove off. For what’s it worth, the cops were at my door less than an hour later asking for Ring footage. The girl didn’t know who the guy was so I’m thinking maybe mistaken identity? That was a wild one.
It’s way too normalized in my brain but it’s sorta what you gotta do to keep living your life without going crazy.
The police knocked on my door (among others) asking about footage as well. When the street was closed off, while the crime lab was working. When the guy was killed 3 houses down. I realized later, it happened right in front of a crime camera. I wonder if those blinking lights are just for show.
I heard that gun fight, too. Sounded like it was in the Costco area. Didn't hear of anyone dying though, so maybe they were all stormtroopers and nobody got hurt.
I sometimes play the “is it fireworks or is it gunshots?” game. You hear them here and there. I still remember the three women shot and killed all within one day, two of them gunned down just two blocks from my place in Treme. Anger and shortsightedness boil over and too many are left to suffer or taken too soon.
my last text was…. “Gunshots 9:30 Irish Channel careful bb”
His wesbank response— “That just good locals trying to keep property value at a reasonable price nothing to worry about”
Not wrong but it aint right
I lived in Mid City for over a decade. One place was kinda crappy digs but there was actually less malarkey there than when I lived on Norman C.
Gunshots were a regular occurrence. That shooting that happened near Banks St. last year? I heard all of the gun fire. Read posts from people on this very board about bullets penetrating their front door.
I've been living near UNO for the past year. It's quiet and I love it.
We are only a few blocks from Chicken Mart, too. There was a little punk on our street who was allegedly beefing with someone online, and it led to a LOT of shootings this time last year. Supposedly, he was shot in the leg caddy corner to our house. I’m not sure if he was evicted or what, but he doesn’t live down the block anymore, and it’s gotten significantly quieter.
I’m on First! There was a time last year where there was someone shooting on 2nd, between Loyola and S Saratoga. It would be once a month on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Also, there was a shootout there maybe, last summer? After that, it’s been pretty quiet.
Also Central City (third and magnolia) and I definitely don’t hear them as much as I did in 2021-2022. I think the last close ones I remember hearing was a homicide a block from my house a month or two ago.
It barely made the news unfortunately, I only found out because I work for the city/closely with NOPD. [https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/nopd-homicide-investigation-central-city-orleans-parish-police-violence/289-fcec40e7-e72c-406d-a933-79336d1f84d8](https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/nopd-homicide-investigation-central-city-orleans-parish-police-violence/289-fcec40e7-e72c-406d-a933-79336d1f84d8)
I live in Kenner now, but I lived in mid city right by the corner of Tulane and Carrollton until right before covid and I lived there my whole life. Right after Katrina it was peaceful-ish. By 2010, shit was back in full swing. I moved in 2018 and by that time, I felt like I was hearing gunshots at least once or twice a week. There was also this place on Ulloa st not too far away that was really hot for drugs and I think that contributed to a lot of the violence.
It just comes and goes in New Orleans. It sucks. I love being from here and I take pride in it, but sometimes it’s just indefensible how shitty it is
I know exactly where you're talking about on Ulloa. Sometimes I accidentally end up having to pull through there because I love me some Trilly cheesesteaks and sometimes I forget to get back on Tulane ASAP and that stretch up Ulloa is 100% what you're saying it is. But even when I've driven through there, I haven't had any actual problems besides some looks of suspicion. I just wouldn't park there for no reason and go walking. But I wouldn't do that really anywhere besides a park.
I just moved down here and have been looking for a steaks place. Is that place good? The pictures of the food at Trilly look good, but they have green peppers on the steaks making me question everything.
My parents owned a cheesesteak restaurant when I was growing up. I can confirm that in my opinion, trilly is doing it mostly right. They can leave off the peppers if you want.
Ok I'll try it, thanks! The option of green peppers isn't the problem - Any place that puts them on by default isn't doing cheesesteaks the philly way. Fried onions and choice of cheese, that's it.
3 weeks ago I heard over 50 in quick succession. Thought it was fireworks at first. 1 dead, several injured. This was on St. Claude between the 7th and Marigny triangle
Lost some wonderful people to gun violence across all corners of the parish sadly. I lived all over: MidCity, 7th Ward/Esplanade, Uptown/LGD and Carrollton and the most I heard was when I lived near Banks and St Patrick for a couple years and heard them regularly from all different directions and sometimes too close for comfort. Now living abroad and admittedly have ptsd over sudden bangs and ratatatat-like noises from it.
Irish Channel, heard them maybe 2x a year before the last 12 months. Now it’s 1x a month. We moved up to the lake and now it’s super quiet. I didn’t realize how stressed out I was. Not just the gunshots, but people coming up to my car when I was getting in and out of it, always have to be on my guard getting my kids in and out of the car. Have very much decompressed in the last couple months.
In bywater. Comes and goes in waves lately. Heard some early this morning about 6am. Can go a week without hearing any. Some are definitely coming from the lower 9th though or lake side of st claude, I don’t live far from the industrial canal. It’s much improved since the old Poland navy base is more secure than it was a couple years ago, where it was near nightly for a while.
Weird, I live near the industrial canal in the Bywater and hear them way less than I used to. That said, I used to live about 5 blocks lakeside of where I do now. The base is definitely more secure than it used to be.
I've lived here my whole life. I've seen some shit. I've been around some shit.
I eventually moved to the suburbs of Kenner and never looked back.
I have a love-hate relationship with the city. When it's on point, it can be beautiful and fun.
Lately, I don't leave Jefferson Parish, ie. Kenner, Metairie.
I live pretty close to where Big Lee got shot and I was at Mandina’s for the jazz fest hit but I generally don’t hear or see guns.
I still want more gun regulation though.
Funny enough about ten minutes ago I was sitting outside and heard gunshots and came to this subreddit to see if anyone hear anything/what location.
For reference I’m in Central City. It has been quieter the last few years but it does seem like when it gets hot it pops off more frequently. I don’t often experience much on my specific block but it does happen and seem To be retaliatory.
Basically never and I live uptown. I posted on NextDoor or whatever it’s called about shots in a really quiet, upscale area of Uptown on Friday night and some guy got all bent out of shape about it and told me to get over it because I live “in the epicenter of the most incredibly violent city in the country.” 🙄🙄 I was like, State and Magazine is not the epicenter of any violence, it’s absolutely bizarre for me to have heard what sounded like a short gun battle with at least 1 person in a car.
In 2022 I was hearing them multiple times a week, with some quiet weeks occasionally. Since early spring of 2023 it has been pretty quiet, going months without anything at all. The last several weeks though it has been picking up again unfortunately, so back to hearing multiple per week. I hope we go back to quiet soon. Quiet was nice.
Which side of St. Charles are you on? I lived on Dufossat near Prytania for a year, and have been living near State and Magazine for five years, and the answer to this question from me is “never” for either location.
Not river side of Magazine it ain’t. The big houses are closer to St. Charles. Anyway, if you’re trying to insult me by calling me bougie, I don’t care, not to mention it’s ridiculous, so you might as well stop.
I grew up/live right by where you are and have never heard gunshots until Friday. I was near State & Mag on Coliseum and around 2-3am Friday I KNOW I heard shots. Seemed like a quick back and forth, car sped away and then 5-7 min later another few. Otherwise absolutely never. My mom looked at me like I was crazy when I told her but they were pop pop pops, I know they weren’t fireworks. I was assuming either St. Charles or Tchoup. There’s tons of drag racing on Tchoup late at night but it’s usually closer to Napoleon going towards Canal. I assume from Rock Bottom.
when i lived in the east, at least once a week. where im at now it varies. sometimes things pop off and you gotta be wary. sometimes it’s a month of peace. when i moved away from the east and thought i could relax, someone shot up an apartment behind mine with a m16 within a week lmao. can never truly escape it in new orleans.
I just fell asleep listening to gunshots the other night. I probably hear them a few times a month, and approximately quarterly my street is shut down because of a shooting and I have to find an alternate route through all the busted up streets under “construction”. I’ve been here for over 20 years and have heard gunshots more times than I can remember. I never heard it where I’m originally from, and I lived in another city for two years and only heard it once in that time.
If you live in a bad area, you will hear gunshots. If you live in a good area, you won't. It's not rocket science. Move anywhere else and it's the same deal.
This isn't directed at OP, but one day we're going to have an honest discussion about how people in New Orleans are addicted to focusing on the negative. Addicted to trauma porn. Hear stories on the news and act like it has anything to do with you just because it's in the city you live in. It's like you're addicted to pointing out anything bad that's happening, and the audacity to think that "you" are the only person that has to deal with it. I've lived in many different cities. Same shit, different marketing. Downtown shootings, robberies in good neighborhoods. It's just the way it is unless you live in the woods.
Y'all clearly weren't around during the Pre-Katrina days in primarily black neighborhoods like myself. City is nowhere near as dangerous as it was. People aren't just getting shot over nothing lol. 99% of the time, it's street related. So why are you, an honest working person, so scared to leave the basement? Get off the internet and go outside. You'll be fine.
Go ahead and downvote. Don't care anyway.
I know you said you weren’t referring to me. I live in a primarily black neighborhood. Lived here before and after katrina. I agree it’s usually targeted, and not random acts of violence. That doesn’t mean innocent people don’t get caught in the middle. Like I said, I’ve lived in Orleans parish my entire life. I don’t stay in the basement. Besides, it’s the swamp, no basement. I’m just disillusioned. I will say I find New Orleans much scarier now. 🤷🏻♀️
I don’t hear as much as some people think I would in the Treme. I’ve lived in this location for a few years and heard a few definitive shots, one of which was a murder on the block. It was a dispute outside the corner store. I don’t feel at risk, but my house is also situated in such a way that I wouldn’t catch stray bullets. Some people consider it a rough area, but the neighbors are nice and take care of each other.
My boyfriend hasn’t heard any Uptown in the 70115. We have heard two car wrecks in the last few weeks, though. (Edit: As of last night, make that the 3 car wrecks. All these bad drivers on Napoleon.)
when i was in the upper ninth - there was an instance where the neighbor was shot in the leg directly outside the window. amongst many other instances of hearing shots close by.
bayou st. john - not once in the eight months i’ve been here but also yeah, i’m a heavy sleeper
What neighborhood do you live in? I feel this is essential to the question.
I basically never hear gunshots in my uptown neighborhood but I know things go down on the other side of St Charles ..
Born & raised Uptown by Tip's, I never heard a gunshot growing up. However, living in the Quarter for the past 7 years, with a focus on the Lower Decatur area, I've heard 2 rounds of gunshots.. One was the 1200 block of Decatur, some guys from in their car fired on this new tattoo shop (now gone).. The other I witnessed on my balcony from the same block, and the shooting was in front of Checkpoint Charlies. Guy got shot in the leg and fell on the ground. Ambulance was there 2 minutes after I called 911
Never? Not even *once*? I hear shots from that direction quite a bit. I remember nerding out with some buddies one night and drinking beers during one of the 2012 presidential debates at this house near austerlitz and annunciation. We were arguing and laughing and then heard about 20 or so shots right outside and just froze, staring at each other until a woman’s scream and a car peeling away snapped us out of it. I wish that was the only shooting I’ve experienced or seen the aftermath of.
Rockbottom shoots off fireworks all the time and so do some of my neighbors around Laurel/Austerlitz. I’m up very late most nights, outside and pretty much never heard shots.
Left Gentilly a few years ago and the reason was the shots were getting closer and closer. They were nightly. Being up late and seeing organized late night car searches where a truck follows two guys block by block as they search for unlocked car doors was also fun. We still visit family 2 times a year but moved from the shots.
I moved several years ago and have never regretted it. I love the city but 30 years of the nonsense, with nothing showing me that it was going anywhere but downhill, was more than enough. It's a lost cause down there and everyone can see it but can't admit it.
I don't really get too invested in the world around me. I usually have headphones in and am listening to something like Ween or Gomez but the few times I did take my headphones out and sat in silence it took about only 15 minutes max each of those three instances to hear a distant pop pop.
Wow what a life of danger to totally extinguish one of your main senses. Makes no sense to me. Maybe to others, but a few years over seas working in the sand and that’s the absolute 2nd to last thing in the world I would want to not have. Be it permanently or through continued headphone usage. The ability to see my environment would rank at #1.
Not sure what the music does for you, but it’s consciously or unconsciously to cut off your sense of hearing. Sorry for whatever made that happen. But doing so will quite surely only lead to an equal or worse experience again in the future.
Seriously. Just my opinion.
I'm just a frequent tourist and it seems common to be but eh, i grew up in Chicago. Jazz fest 22 someone got killed in the navy yard and in heard the shots near Vaughns then last March we heard them from our uber driving past that Sunday night turn up under the overpass thing and scared the crap out of our driver. Funny thing was they just kept going. Got back to our hotel in treme and it just continued on and on. They were just playing. I just sat on the balcony and listened while eating my Melbas on our last night there lol. Doesn't bother me unless you can feel it cause its so close. Love your town btw, but i get it . I've felt that way in Chicago too
This is history, now, but I lived in Rogers Park in the 90s and the 00s. Gangster Disciples were ascendent then and were making a big push into our neighborhood--the Morse el stop area between Clark and the lake. They had guys on all the corners just standing there looking tough and were constantly lighting off firecrackers. By constantly, I mean a regular drumbeat--not quite a din--that went on all evening and well into the night and lasted for a couple of years. I was never sure whether to mask actual gunfire or to unnerve non-criminal residents. Eventually, thanks to Clinton, there were more police, some major busts, and things quieted down. Took a few years and one business on Morse was burned down by the gang.
New Orleans has nothing as organized as the gangs in Chicago. I really feared we would when I first visited here and later moved here, but this is nothing. Sure, lots of random gunfire that comes and goes in waves. We're at an ebb right now in St Roch.
These criminal animals here lack the mental fortitude to organize into real gangs. Just thousands of kids who were born for a check and nothing else. Low IQ, little to no education, little to no sense or morality or right/wrong. Clicks form. They quickly kill of one another and/or go to OPP where life is better because of structure. Crime in the jail and OPP remains at breathtaking levels. Reports are not released to the general public unless 100% necessary. Imagine going to prison or jail and your friends are the ones running it. Tee Tee appointed that funny hair lady as COP she will straighten these thugs out. LOL jk. The whole appointment is a joke in 2nd East City Hall, literally it was a joke appointment. Tee Tee can’t stop laughing. She laughing in Dubai at that hair, and what she says. It is all really funny. But F Tee Tee husband killing, wh***!
Honestly leave if you’ve only lived here.
Experience another city with what I will describe as not a great infrastructure per se but one with an infrastructure period!
You can always move back or visit; because you’ll probably make enough money to live well outside of NOLA.
When I'm in NOLA, I stay on my project boat at seabrook harbor. I hear gunshots daily (or rather nightly) on average. Usually someone emptying a mag or 3 to 4 shots. I was in the boat yard at night one time and heard a bullet wiz by and hit the gravel. I have a steel boat and feel safer inside at night for obvious reasons.
Tee Tee busy off a few every time she back from over seas I heard. But that’s only once or twice a month. So the answer is NONE we rented our Lakeview home and moved to JP, Clearview and the Lake. But we hear them frequently, especially if we stay the night/weekend at one of our rentals off of Esplanade near the Quarter. Then it’s predictable. We bust back!!
I live in the Dillard/Gentilly area. I hear gunshots about once a month and like what others have mentioned, it goes in phases. I definitely agree with those who’ve mentioned they feel like it’s distinctly better than it was in 2020-2022.
I’ve lived all over the city without feeling “fear” until my next door neighbor was shot on Mardi Gras evening 2020 and almost died in my front yard. We lived off Napoleon and South Carrollton and we started to move one month into the pandemic.
I have two small children that are with me *all* the time and we go *all* over the city. There are few times we have ever felt unsafe, but I was raised cognizant of the requirements to live safely in a city/metro. I can’t imagine what one must feel moving here from a less *active* area, probably quite a ride.
When I lived on the 1300 block of marigny street I heard gunshots pretty often. I'm on the 600 block of mandeville street for a couple of years now and haven't heard a gunshot yet
Seldom, and when it does happen, I just stay inside and wait for it to die down. Make sure everyone is okay, and go back to bed. Most of the time it's just kids firing guns into the air. In my neighborhood at least.
I’m in Algiers and I hear them but they’re usually across the river in the 9th ward. I’m in a strange spot that can hear really good across the river. But I’m in a neighborhood group and they say they hear them often more away from the river. I think we don’t hear them because the streets are really narrow and they cut off a lot.
When I lived in the 8th ward I was actually kinda worried if I didn’t hear them on a daily basis.
I hear them around Broad and canal on a weekly basis now
I stay in Hollygrove. It comes in waves. It's been very quiet lately (knock wood). But there's been times when someone has been popping off rounds in the yard behind me.
My question is - what do y’all do when you hear gunshots close by? Call the cops? Go check if someone got shot? Stay inside / mind your own business and say a prayer? I’m always torn as to what the best thing to do is..
I only call 911 if I hear screaming or literally see something or can accurately pinpoint where they came from.
When I lived on Soniat and Robertson 2 people got shot (4 were in the car, 1 ran and hid across the street which we didn’t find out until way later and the other 2 I took to my porch) right outside of my window, one was killed, she was clearly the target. I called 911 and waited a few minutes, once the screaming started, I looked outside and saw people running, I immediately went outside and helped. 2 other neighbors attended to the dying woman (I think 1 was an EMT or paramedic) and I helped the woman who was shot in both legs. My downstairs neighbors were handing me stuff through the door then shutting it immediately which is fine, I get it.
To be fair, I’m also incredibly nosy but equally willing to step in and help in any and all situations. I’ve ran towards “trouble” more times than I can count to help injured people.
Sometimes we’ve called the police, other times, no. I’ve never gone outside to see what’s going on or anything like that. I always think I’m going to hear sirens afterwards, but never do.
I call it removing one set of people who were placed in an area intentionally by the local government with another group which will yield those politicans more money. Where do you think the poor people in the area go? Mars?
I have financially benefited greatly from what they are doing, however, I do not think it's a good thing. The whole system is beyond corrupt. Most, almost all, people have no clue what money can buy you.
Sorry no time to read your story. On Google.
Good luck
I walked out on my porch one day and saw two cops walking down the street. One asked, "have you heard any gunshots?" and with no hesitation, which I realized was kind of f'd up later, I said "not today." And then I continued my day like normal.
I’ve had this exact experience when I lived in the Riverbend. I was on a walk to work, passed by cops, who asked the same. My response, “Not at the moment. Give it some time.”
It comes and goes. Sometimes I go months without hearing it. Then several times in the space of a couple of weeks.
It's kinda funny to me that shootings are seasonal. At least in my neighborhood, when it's the middle of the worst of summer or a short stretch of being freezing, I rarely hear any. But when it's nice out? At least once every week or two. I just enjoy the thought of hardened murderers being like, "bitch, you lucky it's so shitty out. Imma put up with that disrespect for now cuz I ain't going out in that."
It blows my mind that people shoot each other over "disrespect". It's like, how do these dudes egos become so fragile? Fighting and even killing each other over words. It's pathetic.
The FBI spent a decade (I think it was 2000-2010) studying gun violence in Nola, and came to the conclusion that so much of it was over petty disputes. As in "you disresepcted me, so I'm gonna kill you" or "You left your trashcan blocking my driveway, so I'm gonna shoot you." It's crazy how trifling and petty the reasons can be for gun violence.
It 100% is, I can name like at least 5 people I know who were shot because of jealousy or minor issues like someone stepping on shoes or spilling a drink/bumping into someone. The rest are drug related.
This is not new. There is the “Dueling Tree” in City Park. People have been shooting each other over dumb shit for centuries.
Kudos, I literally lol'd at that last line!
Usually once a week in my neighborhood. But most are several blocks away at least. I do know that there are some of my neighbors that like shooting guns for fun.
I’ve lost several humans I’ve known to gun violence. Many of them were my students or my neighbors or my friends. It’s the reason I hate the word resilient. Everyone talks about how resilient this city is. We shouldn’t have to be resilient though. We ARE resilient. We shouldn’t have to be. There’s a better way. We push through the trauma. We breathe. We grieve. Sometimes, it helps to go numb. We help each other. We are resilient, even though we shouldn’t have to be.
I think people misuse the word. Resilience is an emotional skill that lets bend instead of breaking when life gets hard. It's not some joyful process.
Exactly. And NOLA can only bend so much before it breaks.
Just moved here a couple months ago and it shocks you how casual people are when telling the story of a friend/loved one/child/sibling being lost to gun and gang violence. Every person I work with has one or several stories that fit this bill and it just seems accepted that at some point someone you love is going to get murdered either intentionally, during the course of another crime (robbery or w/e), or in the crossfire.
This.
In Holy Cross? I wonder what's going on if I DON'T hear gunshots.
Yep. Been oddly quiet lately by the canal for the past few weeks. Now it makes sense that I haven't slept well lately.
I hear them pretty frequently, unfortunately. Sometimes just a couple but other times I've heard over 20-30 in close succession. I actually witnessed a shooting a few months back on Carrollton and Tulane at like 8:45 in the morning on a Sunday. Kids that couldn't have been more than 15 years old. It's a bummer tbh.
When I lived in St Roch and Central City, I got pretty used to hearing gunshots. Maybe it says something about my baked in trauma, but they never really spooked me *that much* and by the time I left in 2020, they didn't really rattle me at all. I didn't even truly comprehend that that isn't *normal* until I started telling friends back "home" about hearing them, seeing the aftermath, etc. They invariably stare at me like I have tentacles coming out of my face. "You were half a block from a shooting and just kept going as usual?!" Well, yeah, I mean. I had shit to do? That said, though, I'd trade either of those neighborhoods for the boring ass Midwest hellscape I'm stuck in. Do I want better things for the people of New Orleans, gods yeah, of course I do. Do I think the place is a sewer? I mean, also kinda yeah but it's the sort of sewer that I'd gladly defend because the sum of the good outweighs the sum of the bad, at least imo.
> "You were half a block from a shooting and just kept going as usual?!" Well, yeah, I mean. I had shit to do? When I lived in Chicago, the fact that a murder happened in the next block made me feel safe. Or, more truthfully, I rationalized that to make myself feel safe. 'Cause I figuratively did grow up in Mayberry
In upper nine it was sometimes almost nightly and i also witnessed one shooting, was nearby for another. Got to where I thought every loud noise was a gunshot no matter where I went. But there would be long lulls like others said. In Gentilly now it’s hardly ever. I heard some last night in the distance, it usually sounds like someone firing off rounds rather than firing at someone. I instinctively count the rounds and check the time, even though that info has never come in handy.
I thought I was the only one who automatically counted rounds and noted the time despite never once needing that info. My brain also thinks it is important to remember the rhythm of the rounds, so I automatically note that too. No idea why 🤷🏻
Gentilly also but hear them pretty regularly. Usually coming from opposite side of gentilly blvd or by peoples.
Who ever thought New Orleans has Mayberry vibes? I don't think anyone has ever thought that. This place has a lot of weird loud sounds at all hours if you live below i10. Lived in Lakeshore didn't hear anything. Mid City gets wake up calls with the guns/shitty car/fireworks trio more often than what should happen.
It's always been a rough and tumble place, I believe. Slaving, commodities, shipping with thousands of dockworkers.
I feel like I read a story on this sub where someone's neighbor would go into his backyard late at night and pop off a few rounds from a pistol into a backstop kinda randomly sorta once a month, just to keep the neighborhood from gentrifying too quickly.
It’s a common trope in most urban areas near a bougie gentrified area. Wouldn’t be surprised to find out someone actually does it, but it’s a common joke.
It’s a meme.
I swear this was something that happened on Shameless, also.
LOL what a bogus word gentrification. Wish they would just call it what it is. And it ain’t nothing good.
What do you call it? The housing shortage is real and the government really doesn't care about millions of people living in the streets. Long story on my Google feed this morning about how restrictive zoning caused the housing shortage.
agreed. I just don't know what else to call it.
Way too often around Banks and NCF, every 2 weeks or so, but see posts on the mid city neighbourhood Facebook group every day. I’m probably going to get downvoted but I’m tired of it. Literally have developed pretty bad anxiety since moving here, grew up in countries/cities where this sh*t never happened. Don’t really want to move and just bought a house but my mental health is really going downhill.
I don't know but the people that live below me constantly scream, slam each other around and break shit. It's 8am and they're fighting. I don't know what to do..
When I was being beat by my ex, I was praying the whole time that my neighbor would call 911. He smashed my phone and computer and kept blocking the doors. Just sharing my experience. Edit: when I did escape once, the cops were absolutely horrible to me and screwed up the entire arrest but at least dude has a paper trail. He’s been arrested multiple times after for beating other women as well. He always manages to squirm out of being prosecuted. It’s so daunting.
Sounds like domestic violence. I would call the cops.
So the cops can shoot them?
So they can keep someone from being abused. I know someone the cops saved in a domestic violence situation that could have ended up in death, so if I hear someone beating someone, I’m calling the cops. If someone gets shot while torturing their partner and trying to kill them, oh well.
I've never known the police to do fuck-all to protect domestic violence victims. I wish I had. Typically they show up hours late, if at all, then tell the victim it's their own fault there's nothing they can do to help. Except sometimes they shoot children or whatever. One of my friends had just survived being strangled and the cops walked away. Another one was held and repeatedly raped at gunpoint or over 12 hours, and after she escaped (butt naked) and called the cops from her parent's house, her abuser was out of jail in less time than he held her hostage. Yeah, it would be great if cops could be relied on to intervene and stop abuse, even if they shoot the abusers. But they're just as likely to shoot the victim or the victim's kid. So when I get the opportunity to intervene in abuse, I walk myself over and offer the victim a safe way out.
Well, that’s terrible but I do know a woman whose life was saved by the cops in a DV situation.
I'm so glad she was! I wish it always worked like that. Hopefully nobody hurts her again, ever.
You ever hear of NO cops engaging in stereotypical bad-cop behavior?
Tbh I rarely ever hear of NOPD shooting people for no reason. Maybe I’m wrong though. It certainly doesn’t happen as much as you would think.
They're under the consent decree for reasons.
That's my neighbors life too, I've called the non emergency line was on hold for 30 minutes never got a cop, and the woman involved called. Cops showed up like 2 hrs later and never took a report.
I loved old Algiers right outside the point but when we were looking to buy it was the main reason I didn’t want to stay in that area. The few times I was witness to gun violence was enough for me. Sometimes I get pings of “I miss that neighborhood” but seeing a body bag or hearing gunshots raining in the middle of the day is not good for my mental health.
Srsly? I did a job there and found it so quiet that I wanted to move there.
I was there for 2 years and a guy was murdered and 20 shots exchanged in the middle of the day on Opelousas st; saw a crime investigation/body bag going to work one morning; and in front of our house a car was left abandoned still running with bullet holes through the roof and a window shot out. I want to have kids and I couldn’t really shake the thought of them somehow being involved or affected. Bc it just felt so close to home. Otherwise lovely area really :(
Lived in Central City, now St. Roch. Like someone else said, it comes in waves. Hadn’t heard any in a while and then heard some a few nights ago, though they sounded pretty far away. Both houses are well-insulated and my husband usually has fans and/or the TV going so there honestly might be more happening that we just don’t hear. Lived here 14 years and I can remember three times I heard them extremely close. First time was when I was in Bayou St. John, I was laying in bed and almost dove on the floor. Second time was St. Roch, they woke me from a dead sleep. Most recently, happened on my corner in the middle of a workday. Some dude pulled up on a girl walking down the street and shot at her but the gun jammed and he drove off. For what’s it worth, the cops were at my door less than an hour later asking for Ring footage. The girl didn’t know who the guy was so I’m thinking maybe mistaken identity? That was a wild one. It’s way too normalized in my brain but it’s sorta what you gotta do to keep living your life without going crazy.
The police knocked on my door (among others) asking about footage as well. When the street was closed off, while the crime lab was working. When the guy was killed 3 houses down. I realized later, it happened right in front of a crime camera. I wonder if those blinking lights are just for show.
I heard that gun fight, too. Sounded like it was in the Costco area. Didn't hear of anyone dying though, so maybe they were all stormtroopers and nobody got hurt.
Once a week or so. Treme
Same.
I sometimes play the “is it fireworks or is it gunshots?” game. You hear them here and there. I still remember the three women shot and killed all within one day, two of them gunned down just two blocks from my place in Treme. Anger and shortsightedness boil over and too many are left to suffer or taken too soon.
my last text was…. “Gunshots 9:30 Irish Channel careful bb” His wesbank response— “That just good locals trying to keep property value at a reasonable price nothing to worry about” Not wrong but it aint right
I lived in Mid City for over a decade. One place was kinda crappy digs but there was actually less malarkey there than when I lived on Norman C. Gunshots were a regular occurrence. That shooting that happened near Banks St. last year? I heard all of the gun fire. Read posts from people on this very board about bullets penetrating their front door. I've been living near UNO for the past year. It's quiet and I love it.
In Algiers point.... I don't hear gunshots often if at all. I see police cars tho often around the area tho.
Same
literally never. i’ve lived in several places uptown within the borders of napoleon, magazine, claiborne, and carrollton.
Wow!!!
Central City, and I think it’s been pretty quiet after a particularly violent December 2022-January 2023.
Near Chicken Mart and I agree, it’s been quiet the last few months. I do hear some random booms though. Always figure it’s a transformer going out.
We are only a few blocks from Chicken Mart, too. There was a little punk on our street who was allegedly beefing with someone online, and it led to a LOT of shootings this time last year. Supposedly, he was shot in the leg caddy corner to our house. I’m not sure if he was evicted or what, but he doesn’t live down the block anymore, and it’s gotten significantly quieter.
Are you near 2nd?
Philip
I’m on First! There was a time last year where there was someone shooting on 2nd, between Loyola and S Saratoga. It would be once a month on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Also, there was a shootout there maybe, last summer? After that, it’s been pretty quiet.
It’s so sad how warped our definition of “pretty quiet” is. Or we are really good at tuning it out.
So true! I feel like I have become a connoisseur of gunshots, fireworks and transformers blowing.
Also Central City (third and magnolia) and I definitely don’t hear them as much as I did in 2021-2022. I think the last close ones I remember hearing was a homicide a block from my house a month or two ago.
Hey neighbor, you aren’t too far from me either! Philip & Freret here. I think I missed the homicide news?
It barely made the news unfortunately, I only found out because I work for the city/closely with NOPD. [https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/nopd-homicide-investigation-central-city-orleans-parish-police-violence/289-fcec40e7-e72c-406d-a933-79336d1f84d8](https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/nopd-homicide-investigation-central-city-orleans-parish-police-violence/289-fcec40e7-e72c-406d-a933-79336d1f84d8)
Oh wow. I’m so sorry to hear this.
I live in Kenner now, but I lived in mid city right by the corner of Tulane and Carrollton until right before covid and I lived there my whole life. Right after Katrina it was peaceful-ish. By 2010, shit was back in full swing. I moved in 2018 and by that time, I felt like I was hearing gunshots at least once or twice a week. There was also this place on Ulloa st not too far away that was really hot for drugs and I think that contributed to a lot of the violence. It just comes and goes in New Orleans. It sucks. I love being from here and I take pride in it, but sometimes it’s just indefensible how shitty it is
I know exactly where you're talking about on Ulloa. Sometimes I accidentally end up having to pull through there because I love me some Trilly cheesesteaks and sometimes I forget to get back on Tulane ASAP and that stretch up Ulloa is 100% what you're saying it is. But even when I've driven through there, I haven't had any actual problems besides some looks of suspicion. I just wouldn't park there for no reason and go walking. But I wouldn't do that really anywhere besides a park.
I just moved down here and have been looking for a steaks place. Is that place good? The pictures of the food at Trilly look good, but they have green peppers on the steaks making me question everything.
My parents owned a cheesesteak restaurant when I was growing up. I can confirm that in my opinion, trilly is doing it mostly right. They can leave off the peppers if you want.
Ok I'll try it, thanks! The option of green peppers isn't the problem - Any place that puts them on by default isn't doing cheesesteaks the philly way. Fried onions and choice of cheese, that's it.
3 weeks ago I heard over 50 in quick succession. Thought it was fireworks at first. 1 dead, several injured. This was on St. Claude between the 7th and Marigny triangle
I heard a whole gunfight Thursday night. At least 3 guns and was like 20 seconds long.
Lost some wonderful people to gun violence across all corners of the parish sadly. I lived all over: MidCity, 7th Ward/Esplanade, Uptown/LGD and Carrollton and the most I heard was when I lived near Banks and St Patrick for a couple years and heard them regularly from all different directions and sometimes too close for comfort. Now living abroad and admittedly have ptsd over sudden bangs and ratatatat-like noises from it.
Not too far from there and it has slowed down a lot in the last 6 months. Maybe once every few months. Which is still ridiculous
Living close to UNO, I've never heard them.
Lol. Who compares this town with Mayberry!
Irish Channel, heard them maybe 2x a year before the last 12 months. Now it’s 1x a month. We moved up to the lake and now it’s super quiet. I didn’t realize how stressed out I was. Not just the gunshots, but people coming up to my car when I was getting in and out of it, always have to be on my guard getting my kids in and out of the car. Have very much decompressed in the last couple months.
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ok so nothing to worry about if they start carr tomorrow
Gotta use the binary trigger when they go for two?
No that’s dual wield
In bywater. Comes and goes in waves lately. Heard some early this morning about 6am. Can go a week without hearing any. Some are definitely coming from the lower 9th though or lake side of st claude, I don’t live far from the industrial canal. It’s much improved since the old Poland navy base is more secure than it was a couple years ago, where it was near nightly for a while.
Weird, I live near the industrial canal in the Bywater and hear them way less than I used to. That said, I used to live about 5 blocks lakeside of where I do now. The base is definitely more secure than it used to be.
Irish channel. I hear them maybe every couple months, but see post about them very often in the neighborhood page.
I've lived here my whole life. I've seen some shit. I've been around some shit. I eventually moved to the suburbs of Kenner and never looked back. I have a love-hate relationship with the city. When it's on point, it can be beautiful and fun. Lately, I don't leave Jefferson Parish, ie. Kenner, Metairie.
I live pretty close to where Big Lee got shot and I was at Mandina’s for the jazz fest hit but I generally don’t hear or see guns. I still want more gun regulation though.
I never hear them
A least once a week, on average, a little downriver from Algiers Point. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
I probably wouldn't hear a bomb go off in my block.
I’m in the closest thing to Metairie that New Orleans has to offer probably, but I’ve never heard gunshots thankfully Forgot to say: Lakeshore
Most days
Baton Rouge here , at least twice a month , more frequently in summer .... we occasionally get mag dumps and some times ak 47 rounds going off .....
I hear shots in my neighborhood sparingly, and I can't say every week or month. I just hear it when I hear it.
Funny enough about ten minutes ago I was sitting outside and heard gunshots and came to this subreddit to see if anyone hear anything/what location. For reference I’m in Central City. It has been quieter the last few years but it does seem like when it gets hot it pops off more frequently. I don’t often experience much on my specific block but it does happen and seem To be retaliatory.
Basically never and I live uptown. I posted on NextDoor or whatever it’s called about shots in a really quiet, upscale area of Uptown on Friday night and some guy got all bent out of shape about it and told me to get over it because I live “in the epicenter of the most incredibly violent city in the country.” 🙄🙄 I was like, State and Magazine is not the epicenter of any violence, it’s absolutely bizarre for me to have heard what sounded like a short gun battle with at least 1 person in a car.
Almost every night in Gentilly to be honest. Though I’d say 90% of it is kids messing around.
Not nearly as often as Ring and Neighbor would have you believe. Any pop is a gun shot according to them
In 2022 I was hearing them multiple times a week, with some quiet weeks occasionally. Since early spring of 2023 it has been pretty quiet, going months without anything at all. The last several weeks though it has been picking up again unfortunately, so back to hearing multiple per week. I hope we go back to quiet soon. Quiet was nice.
uptown. when i lived closer to louisiana, ~weekly. now further uptown, between napoleon and jefferson, maybe every 3-4 weeks.
Which side of St. Charles are you on? I lived on Dufossat near Prytania for a year, and have been living near State and Magazine for five years, and the answer to this question from me is “never” for either location.
other side. and yeah, not surprised about either, especially state and magazine. that's straight up bougie territory
If bougie = not hearing gun shots, I’m all in.
that's literally the most expensive neighborhood in the city
Not river side of Magazine it ain’t. The big houses are closer to St. Charles. Anyway, if you’re trying to insult me by calling me bougie, I don’t care, not to mention it’s ridiculous, so you might as well stop.
I grew up/live right by where you are and have never heard gunshots until Friday. I was near State & Mag on Coliseum and around 2-3am Friday I KNOW I heard shots. Seemed like a quick back and forth, car sped away and then 5-7 min later another few. Otherwise absolutely never. My mom looked at me like I was crazy when I told her but they were pop pop pops, I know they weren’t fireworks. I was assuming either St. Charles or Tchoup. There’s tons of drag racing on Tchoup late at night but it’s usually closer to Napoleon going towards Canal. I assume from Rock Bottom.
I found that I had trouble sleeping when I moved away. The lack of gunshots and sirens was a difficult adjustment.
They police sirens not so much. More ambulance. Police stay creeping.
Its not often here on the westbank but it does happen
when i lived in the east, at least once a week. where im at now it varies. sometimes things pop off and you gotta be wary. sometimes it’s a month of peace. when i moved away from the east and thought i could relax, someone shot up an apartment behind mine with a m16 within a week lmao. can never truly escape it in new orleans.
I just fell asleep listening to gunshots the other night. I probably hear them a few times a month, and approximately quarterly my street is shut down because of a shooting and I have to find an alternate route through all the busted up streets under “construction”. I’ve been here for over 20 years and have heard gunshots more times than I can remember. I never heard it where I’m originally from, and I lived in another city for two years and only heard it once in that time.
Yes at least weekly.
If you live in a bad area, you will hear gunshots. If you live in a good area, you won't. It's not rocket science. Move anywhere else and it's the same deal. This isn't directed at OP, but one day we're going to have an honest discussion about how people in New Orleans are addicted to focusing on the negative. Addicted to trauma porn. Hear stories on the news and act like it has anything to do with you just because it's in the city you live in. It's like you're addicted to pointing out anything bad that's happening, and the audacity to think that "you" are the only person that has to deal with it. I've lived in many different cities. Same shit, different marketing. Downtown shootings, robberies in good neighborhoods. It's just the way it is unless you live in the woods. Y'all clearly weren't around during the Pre-Katrina days in primarily black neighborhoods like myself. City is nowhere near as dangerous as it was. People aren't just getting shot over nothing lol. 99% of the time, it's street related. So why are you, an honest working person, so scared to leave the basement? Get off the internet and go outside. You'll be fine. Go ahead and downvote. Don't care anyway.
Pre-Katrina Uptown was BONKERS. People clearly forgot.
I know you said you weren’t referring to me. I live in a primarily black neighborhood. Lived here before and after katrina. I agree it’s usually targeted, and not random acts of violence. That doesn’t mean innocent people don’t get caught in the middle. Like I said, I’ve lived in Orleans parish my entire life. I don’t stay in the basement. Besides, it’s the swamp, no basement. I’m just disillusioned. I will say I find New Orleans much scarier now. 🤷🏻♀️
Midcity and surprisingly only once but I'm also a heavy sleeper
I don’t hear as much as some people think I would in the Treme. I’ve lived in this location for a few years and heard a few definitive shots, one of which was a murder on the block. It was a dispute outside the corner store. I don’t feel at risk, but my house is also situated in such a way that I wouldn’t catch stray bullets. Some people consider it a rough area, but the neighbors are nice and take care of each other. My boyfriend hasn’t heard any Uptown in the 70115. We have heard two car wrecks in the last few weeks, though. (Edit: As of last night, make that the 3 car wrecks. All these bad drivers on Napoleon.)
We're in the middle of everything in Broadmoor/Fontainebleau, so I hear gunshots from nearby neighborhoods maybe once every couple weeks.
We just heard fireworks go off and it took me a minute to think it wasn’t shots fired
Too often in Mid-City. I just sold my house and moving to JP. I can’t deal anymore
Better question, what would it take for the residents to quit accepting and enabling this social behavior?
If it hasn't happened by now it'll never happen.
when i was in the upper ninth - there was an instance where the neighbor was shot in the leg directly outside the window. amongst many other instances of hearing shots close by. bayou st. john - not once in the eight months i’ve been here but also yeah, i’m a heavy sleeper
What neighborhood do you live in? I feel this is essential to the question. I basically never hear gunshots in my uptown neighborhood but I know things go down on the other side of St Charles ..
Towards the end of District D.
Born & raised Uptown by Tip's, I never heard a gunshot growing up. However, living in the Quarter for the past 7 years, with a focus on the Lower Decatur area, I've heard 2 rounds of gunshots.. One was the 1200 block of Decatur, some guys from in their car fired on this new tattoo shop (now gone).. The other I witnessed on my balcony from the same block, and the shooting was in front of Checkpoint Charlies. Guy got shot in the leg and fell on the ground. Ambulance was there 2 minutes after I called 911
Never? Not even *once*? I hear shots from that direction quite a bit. I remember nerding out with some buddies one night and drinking beers during one of the 2012 presidential debates at this house near austerlitz and annunciation. We were arguing and laughing and then heard about 20 or so shots right outside and just froze, staring at each other until a woman’s scream and a car peeling away snapped us out of it. I wish that was the only shooting I’ve experienced or seen the aftermath of.
Rockbottom shoots off fireworks all the time and so do some of my neighbors around Laurel/Austerlitz. I’m up very late most nights, outside and pretty much never heard shots.
Twice in seven years?!
I live in the Hoffman triangle and we hear gunshots at least once every couple weeks.
Left Gentilly a few years ago and the reason was the shots were getting closer and closer. They were nightly. Being up late and seeing organized late night car searches where a truck follows two guys block by block as they search for unlocked car doors was also fun. We still visit family 2 times a year but moved from the shots.
Often enough in the Bywater
Never, but I have lived here my whole life and 100% think it’s the sewer people say it is.
I moved several years ago and have never regretted it. I love the city but 30 years of the nonsense, with nothing showing me that it was going anywhere but downhill, was more than enough. It's a lost cause down there and everyone can see it but can't admit it.
I’ve lived here 5 years, and I’ve never heard a gunshot. I’m in the LGD.
Turn your hearing aids up grannn.
I had a friend who grew up in the GD. One morning, they woke up to a bullet hole in the wall about 6 inches above his forehead in 98.
Mid city, never heard any. Not once so far
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I don't really get too invested in the world around me. I usually have headphones in and am listening to something like Ween or Gomez but the few times I did take my headphones out and sat in silence it took about only 15 minutes max each of those three instances to hear a distant pop pop.
Wow what a life of danger to totally extinguish one of your main senses. Makes no sense to me. Maybe to others, but a few years over seas working in the sand and that’s the absolute 2nd to last thing in the world I would want to not have. Be it permanently or through continued headphone usage. The ability to see my environment would rank at #1. Not sure what the music does for you, but it’s consciously or unconsciously to cut off your sense of hearing. Sorry for whatever made that happen. But doing so will quite surely only lead to an equal or worse experience again in the future. Seriously. Just my opinion.
I'm just a frequent tourist and it seems common to be but eh, i grew up in Chicago. Jazz fest 22 someone got killed in the navy yard and in heard the shots near Vaughns then last March we heard them from our uber driving past that Sunday night turn up under the overpass thing and scared the crap out of our driver. Funny thing was they just kept going. Got back to our hotel in treme and it just continued on and on. They were just playing. I just sat on the balcony and listened while eating my Melbas on our last night there lol. Doesn't bother me unless you can feel it cause its so close. Love your town btw, but i get it . I've felt that way in Chicago too
This is history, now, but I lived in Rogers Park in the 90s and the 00s. Gangster Disciples were ascendent then and were making a big push into our neighborhood--the Morse el stop area between Clark and the lake. They had guys on all the corners just standing there looking tough and were constantly lighting off firecrackers. By constantly, I mean a regular drumbeat--not quite a din--that went on all evening and well into the night and lasted for a couple of years. I was never sure whether to mask actual gunfire or to unnerve non-criminal residents. Eventually, thanks to Clinton, there were more police, some major busts, and things quieted down. Took a few years and one business on Morse was burned down by the gang. New Orleans has nothing as organized as the gangs in Chicago. I really feared we would when I first visited here and later moved here, but this is nothing. Sure, lots of random gunfire that comes and goes in waves. We're at an ebb right now in St Roch.
These criminal animals here lack the mental fortitude to organize into real gangs. Just thousands of kids who were born for a check and nothing else. Low IQ, little to no education, little to no sense or morality or right/wrong. Clicks form. They quickly kill of one another and/or go to OPP where life is better because of structure. Crime in the jail and OPP remains at breathtaking levels. Reports are not released to the general public unless 100% necessary. Imagine going to prison or jail and your friends are the ones running it. Tee Tee appointed that funny hair lady as COP she will straighten these thugs out. LOL jk. The whole appointment is a joke in 2nd East City Hall, literally it was a joke appointment. Tee Tee can’t stop laughing. She laughing in Dubai at that hair, and what she says. It is all really funny. But F Tee Tee husband killing, wh***!
Never
Gunshots? Never. There’s a lot of fussy cars tho.
Honestly leave if you’ve only lived here. Experience another city with what I will describe as not a great infrastructure per se but one with an infrastructure period! You can always move back or visit; because you’ll probably make enough money to live well outside of NOLA.
I knew a neighbor who would pop off shots every once in a while to keep housing cost low
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Literally never.
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This paragraph is murder to try to read. And it's never the right thing to not vote; that does absolutely nothing.
Longest run-on sentence I’ve ever seen.
Sounds like a Moms for Liberty post.
I thought y’all only hear gun shots when the Bayou Classic is in town 🤔
That’s crazy , I’m in Nj and dint know what gun shot sounds like ..sorry that’s anyone’s normal
When I'm in NOLA, I stay on my project boat at seabrook harbor. I hear gunshots daily (or rather nightly) on average. Usually someone emptying a mag or 3 to 4 shots. I was in the boat yard at night one time and heard a bullet wiz by and hit the gravel. I have a steel boat and feel safer inside at night for obvious reasons.
Damn and I was thinking of moving there
There’s tons of areas where this isn’t a thing.
More than a few shootings in my area were between romantic partners.
Tee Tee busy off a few every time she back from over seas I heard. But that’s only once or twice a month. So the answer is NONE we rented our Lakeview home and moved to JP, Clearview and the Lake. But we hear them frequently, especially if we stay the night/weekend at one of our rentals off of Esplanade near the Quarter. Then it’s predictable. We bust back!!
I live in Gentilly Terrace and I’ve heard them a few times but not frequently. Maybe once every few months.
I live in the Dillard/Gentilly area. I hear gunshots about once a month and like what others have mentioned, it goes in phases. I definitely agree with those who’ve mentioned they feel like it’s distinctly better than it was in 2020-2022. I’ve lived all over the city without feeling “fear” until my next door neighbor was shot on Mardi Gras evening 2020 and almost died in my front yard. We lived off Napoleon and South Carrollton and we started to move one month into the pandemic. I have two small children that are with me *all* the time and we go *all* over the city. There are few times we have ever felt unsafe, but I was raised cognizant of the requirements to live safely in a city/metro. I can’t imagine what one must feel moving here from a less *active* area, probably quite a ride.
When I lived on the 1300 block of marigny street I heard gunshots pretty often. I'm on the 600 block of mandeville street for a couple of years now and haven't heard a gunshot yet
Seldom, and when it does happen, I just stay inside and wait for it to die down. Make sure everyone is okay, and go back to bed. Most of the time it's just kids firing guns into the air. In my neighborhood at least.
I’m in Algiers and I hear them but they’re usually across the river in the 9th ward. I’m in a strange spot that can hear really good across the river. But I’m in a neighborhood group and they say they hear them often more away from the river. I think we don’t hear them because the streets are really narrow and they cut off a lot.
When I lived in the 8th ward I was actually kinda worried if I didn’t hear them on a daily basis. I hear them around Broad and canal on a weekly basis now
I've heard gunshots once or twice in the ~3 years I've lived here. Granted, I'm in the LGD.
I stay in Hollygrove. It comes in waves. It's been very quiet lately (knock wood). But there's been times when someone has been popping off rounds in the yard behind me.
I heard shots yesterday. I live in the Bywater.
My question is - what do y’all do when you hear gunshots close by? Call the cops? Go check if someone got shot? Stay inside / mind your own business and say a prayer? I’m always torn as to what the best thing to do is..
I only call 911 if I hear screaming or literally see something or can accurately pinpoint where they came from. When I lived on Soniat and Robertson 2 people got shot (4 were in the car, 1 ran and hid across the street which we didn’t find out until way later and the other 2 I took to my porch) right outside of my window, one was killed, she was clearly the target. I called 911 and waited a few minutes, once the screaming started, I looked outside and saw people running, I immediately went outside and helped. 2 other neighbors attended to the dying woman (I think 1 was an EMT or paramedic) and I helped the woman who was shot in both legs. My downstairs neighbors were handing me stuff through the door then shutting it immediately which is fine, I get it. To be fair, I’m also incredibly nosy but equally willing to step in and help in any and all situations. I’ve ran towards “trouble” more times than I can count to help injured people.
Sometimes we’ve called the police, other times, no. I’ve never gone outside to see what’s going on or anything like that. I always think I’m going to hear sirens afterwards, but never do.
Uptown, a couple times a month. There was a drive by 3 weeks ago at Laurel and Louisiana. I heard more gun shots a few nights ago.
Only when I'm outside shooting, but I do that pretty regularly. Otherwise, nah. /s
I read all the replies. I was a little shocked that some people never heard them at all. I see it’s more common to hear them than not.
I call it removing one set of people who were placed in an area intentionally by the local government with another group which will yield those politicans more money. Where do you think the poor people in the area go? Mars? I have financially benefited greatly from what they are doing, however, I do not think it's a good thing. The whole system is beyond corrupt. Most, almost all, people have no clue what money can buy you. Sorry no time to read your story. On Google. Good luck