Thread: Would you let your teenager take a cab?
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Old 05-13-2009, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cjs216 View Post
I think the crime rate in New Orleans is pretty high compared to national averages. Not only that, but post-Katrina when people from New Orleans were relocated to other cities, those cities saw their violent crime rates, homicide in paricular, increase! Maybe that's part of why gg isn't comfortable with her DD taking a cab or public transportation....


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references:
After Katrina, New Orleans Crime Moves to Other Cities - ABC News
N.O. is murder capital for 2006 - NOLA.com

Thanks, but actually, we are not directly in the city. I just don't like the idea of her being driven around by a stranger. Also, there is no need. As I said, I have never taken a taxi. My point is that it does not make her less capable of surviving.
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