Casey Billieson was fighting against the world. Hers was a charge carried by many mothers: moving mountains to make the best future for her two sons. But the mountains she faced were taller than most. To start, she had to raise her boys in the Lafitte housing projects in Treme, near the epicenter of a crime wave in New Orleans. In the spring of 1994, like mothers in violent cities the world over, Billieson anticipated the bloom in murders the thaw would bring. Fueled by the drug trade and a rising scourge of police corruption and brutality, violence rose to unseen levels that year, and the city's murder rate surged to the highest in the country. Listen to the audio version of this article: Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone. Four hundred and twenty four people were slain in New Orleans in 1994 , a murder rate that may have been the highest ever in any American city . Rival drug dealers killed each other while cops killed witnesses and whistleblowers in plain sight. Almost 1 percent of all young black men in the city were killed that year . Many of those murders were… Read full this story
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