Any amount of crime is too much. But we have a history to deal with and we need to make sure that people know that we're doing whatever it takes to make the city safe for them to come back.
Oliver Thomas stresses the importance of addressing crime to restore safety and encourage people to return to New Orleans.
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We need to figure out how we sustain this. It's about time that we make our schools better, our criminal justice system work, and our streets safe.
Given what we've been through, if six months from now we don't see some progress in this community, everyone who has anything to do with it ought not be around.
How does that help with 10 or 12 feet of water? The levees, we pray, won't break this time.