Gutter Punks New Orleans Fire

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The action comes amidst widespread public debate on the growing new orleans homeless population and what some refer to as gutter punks transient homeless who consider it to be a lifestyle choice. In january the nopd major offense log noted unit 502a responding to a complaint about gutter punks along st. Roch dealt with the hassle of a dog by shooting it. Panhandling in new orleans is tricky.

For those unfamiliar with the term i ll defer to wikipedia to describe this millenial genre. Distinguish between legitimate homeless persons who are sincerely in search of shelter and or housing and gutter punks or travelers who are too often found plopped down with their pitbulls in front of storefronts and spare changing in commerical districts creating nuisance for everyone. On a trip last year one female muttered obscenities to passerbys like me but most folks like me completely ignored her. According to a statement from andy cunningham spokesperson for the new orleans police department this is not referred to internally as a sweep or roundup.

Gutter punks dirty kids freight hoppers to some they re a frightfully aggressive nuisance one targeted by a recent new orleans police sweep fueled by. At issue here are the gutter punks that vast unbeloved subculture run roughshod over the french quarter. On lower decatur gutter punks are usually in abundance. I find myself re examining a matter upon which i was quite certain my mind was made up with no chance of equivocation.

Some do it for the entirety of their lives which can and do end prematurely due to dangers intrinsic with the lifestyle. But as a movement gutter punks are a solid if disorganized by definition piece of the punk subculture puzzle. Reporter tim estiloz visited new orleans in this 1997 story about a group of homeless youth dubbed by some in the city as gutterpunks. Attributes may include unkempt.

The travelers go by many names. As a casual observer of nopd i don t find this to be the case. Nopd does whatever it likes to oogles dogs or no.