re: East Baton Rouge Murder Score updated

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Yeah, about that…

BR boomed overnight in 2005 before returning to normal levels. And the trend seems to have been the Katrina contingent moving in and a lot of other people saying “Yeah, frick it, I’m out.”

Sure tracks with when the numbers started to change.

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The metro area is 870,000....up from about 700,000 in the 2000 census. IDK if that's from Katrina or not. But outside of the oil bust era of the 1980s, the metro area has outpaced the national average in growth for the past century.

The disclaimer is that much of that is in suburbs within East Baton Rouge or in suburban parishes like Ascension or Livingston. And I'm pretty sure the region's road network, public education, and housing costs are starting to hold it back. There is a finite amount of land in area's not prone to flooding to develop, and areas within and outside the city limits are starting to have issues continuing the level of growth they've seen in the past. There will be some housing costs issues soon if not already.

As far as murders....I wouldn't be shocked if there were equal or even more in the 1980s or 1990s despite the parish having less than 400,000 residents back then.