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Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:15 pm to sec13rowBBseat28
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:16 pm to fightin tigers
You should look into BR downtown again if you ever decide to leave New Orleans. Things have really changed for the better. There's more parking, more jobs, more housing, more bars, more restaurants, and even a grocery store downtown these days.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:17 pm to Horsemeat
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Cops surround downtown any time there's an event to harass citizens
This shite happened one time 4 years ago. Most of the cops are around downtown keeping it safe at night. I'm sure you would rather them there than not.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:20 pm to fightin tigers
Because that's where drugs are being sold, murders happening, armed robberies, etc - right? Oh wait, that's further north where they refuse to go between 12a and 5a.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:26 pm to tigerskin
We left a few years ago mainly because of the schools but crime also played a role in our decision.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:30 pm to Horsemeat
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Oh wait, that's further north where they refuse to go between 12a and 5a.
I went through the "further north" area for years. There is always a police presence at that time of morming. Don't kid yourself.
They can't cover every inch of North BR every second.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:36 pm to Horsemeat
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Because that's where drugs are being sold, murders happening, armed robberies, etc - right? Oh wait, that's further north where they refuse to go between 12a and 5a.
So would you prefer that there not be a police presence downtown and have all of the people from "further north" come downtown and commit murders, armed robberies, etc?
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:53 pm to Roaad
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What would be the draw to EBR?
A 50' tall electric fence around NBR would be a good start
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:19 pm to tigerskin
Baton Rouge could have all the "culture" in the world. It could have 20 Mardi Gras Parades. 10 different live music venues downtown that let everyone in for free every night. It could have a world class zoo and aquarium. It could have niche movie houses that serve limited release beer brewed only in rustic barns by actual people with mustaches. It could have poets reciting shite you would actually want to hear in coffee houses that serve drinks that taste like a kiss from Dany Targaryen. It could put an art gallery and a museum on every other street corner and fill it to the brim with paintings by Dutch masters and shite on loan from the Smithsonian, and let people in for free. And you could have free public transportation out the arse.
Baton Rouge could be vomiting and drowning in "culture" and people still would leave if 1) They don't feel safe going to the gas station after the sun goes down and 2) They don't have good schools to send their kids to, where they won't get stabbed.
It is that. fricking. Simple.
Even if Baton Rouge provided all those things (and it doesn't), it would still lose people because this town does not provide a basic feeling of security for it people or even the slightest bit of confidence that it knows what it's doing with its schools.
Baton Rouge could be vomiting and drowning in "culture" and people still would leave if 1) They don't feel safe going to the gas station after the sun goes down and 2) They don't have good schools to send their kids to, where they won't get stabbed.
It is that. fricking. Simple.
Even if Baton Rouge provided all those things (and it doesn't), it would still lose people because this town does not provide a basic feeling of security for it people or even the slightest bit of confidence that it knows what it's doing with its schools.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:20 pm to Martini
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I wish everybody would just get the frick out anyway and leave me the frick alone.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:25 pm to fightin tigers
quote:with the budget they have and some officers working 15 hour days every day for 20 years, you would think they would be covering every inch.
They can't cover every inch of North BR every second.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:28 pm to tigerskin
Baton Rouge lacks cultural attractions, no doubt.
But its big problem is that its infrastructure is terrible.
But its big problem is that its infrastructure is terrible.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:31 pm to SpqrTiger
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1) They don't feel safe going to the gas station after the sun goes down and 2) They don't have good schools to send their kids to, where they won't get stabbed.
Pretty much what the New Orleans staple is. Good public schools and low crime rates.
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