re: Welcome to the shooting gallery (BR)

The task to improve Baton Rouge seems overwhelming as the entire system needs a change. Would you support additional taxes to help the issue in Baton Rouge? You need new prison space. You need more officers (and pay them more so you get good ones). You need competent judges (good luck with this). You need DA’s who are tougher on criminals and more supportive of those who are merely trying to protect their property. There needs to be repercussions for breaking the law and right now, there’s not much at all. To fix all of these, you are talking about a decade plus and with the way the world is trending to supporting those who commit the crime because you don’t want to be classified as racist…you have no chance. You need an entire team (a large team) of people who say “IDGAF if they think I’m racist or not, we need to fix this mess starting today.” Again, I don’t see much of a chance as it’s hard to find 1 person to say that, let alone a large team.

Ruining everywhere.

Until you gut the Clark, Johnson. White syndicate out of the 19th JDC we’re going to remain in this cesspool.

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One in the Jefferson/Bluebonnet corridor.

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That's getting close to home. Time to start shooting back.

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Jefferson Bluebonnet is far from ghetto

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It's trending in that direction.

I lived in that area for 11 years. The gas station where the shooting took place was the one my wife and I always used. In the latter part of my time living in the area hearing gunshots at night was not a terribly uncommon occurrence (mostly from Siegen Ln and generally about one episode a week)

The neighborhood behind the gas station, Jefferson Terrance (and other newer neighborhoods) are fine. But, like most things in BR where zoning is a four letter word, the apartments surrounding the neighborhoods are getting worse and worse. Eventually people in the nice neighborhoods in the area will become tired of living ghetto-adjacent and move. Once that occurs the collapse will be inevitable. It won't happen over night, but shootings/crime on Siegen coupled with (now) a shooting at a gas station most folks in the area use will hasten that process.

Rent subsidy apt complexes nearby though

Probably on their way to midnight basketball.
Damn!
Takedown another statue please.

I didn’t even hear any sirens

Guess I’ll quit going to that circle k for gas at night.

I live in the area way in the back. The entire Jefferson corridor has held up extremely well. It’s centrally located and there are beautiful lots and parks. But anywhere there are little pockets of apartments something can happen. And Baton Rouge is a majority black city so we are going to have murder beefs playing out until the end of time wherever they feel they can take someone by surprise.

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You need DA’s who are tougher on criminals and more supportive of those who are merely trying to protect their property. There needs to be repercussions for breaking the law and right now, there’s not much at all.

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This is the first thing that needs to be fixed. They can add a thousand new officers, but it doesn’t do a thing if every violent criminal they arrest is back on the street almost immediately. It’s insane. Zero consequences.