Please consider:
New Orleans mayor, DA and sheriff are content to produce insecurity while local parish executive committees of both parties are more interested in counting votes and donations than dead or wounded citizens.
Creating our own safety amid such insecurity production enabled at the highest levels means organizing at the lowest common denominators.
The following list is by no means exhaustive: Awareness practice; deciding what, if any, weapons one is comfortable with; making accompanying each other more intentional, reviewing access control of homes and public spaces; investing in or joining mentor organizations and deciding if engaging youth and adults in crisis as an individual mentor is an option.
