NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – LSU New Orleans’s Quality of Life Survey lists the city’s aging infrastructure and ongoing drainage woes bumped crime as the top concern among surveyors.
The survey polled 400 New Orleans voters about their biggest concerns with the city and their approval ratings for elected officials.
This year marked the first time since 1986 — when the survey first launched — that crime was not listed as the main concern for surveyors, which lines up with the 70% drop in violent crime since 2022 and the lowest crime rate NOPD has seen since the 1970s…