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Mall of Louisiana shooting response reveals Baton Rouge disparities
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:04 pm
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If you live in one of Baton Rouge’s poor, Black neighborhoods, the phrase “people are talking” might land differently because you know that when bullets fly on your block, the response often looks very different.
The urgency of Thursday’s response is understandable; the problem is that it is not evenly distributed across East Baton Rouge Parish.
In north Baton Rouge, where most residents are Black and many live below the poverty line, gunfire is a regular feature of life. People can point to corners where multiple homicides have happened. Yet many of those shootings pass with a short item on the nightly news, if they make the news at all.
Within a day, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
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ocal law enforcement and victim-advocacy groups acknowledge this. Crime Stoppers of Greater Baton Rouge notes that fear of retribution and fear of being labeled a snitch are “among the most prevalent reasons why people refrain from reporting crimes,” especially when they are reporting on someone in their own community.
And when your own experiences with law enforcement are shaped by aggressive stops, searches and excessive force, it is not obvious that calling police will make you safer.
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Local numbers tell a similar story. Analysis by Together Baton Rouge found that BRPD drug enforcement disproportionately impacts poor, Black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, with African American residents and low-income areas bearing the brunt of arrests.
Deflect deflect deflect
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:06 pm to BilJ
Quit “raising” pieces of shite
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:06 pm to BilJ
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Black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, with African American residents
Once and for all, is it fricking black or is it fricking African American?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:06 pm to BilJ
Don’t talk to cops but complain when the cops don’t spend time in your neighborhood.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:08 pm to BilJ
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In north Baton Rouge, where most residents are Black and many live below the poverty line, gunfire is a regular feature of life. People can point to corners where multiple homicides have happened. Yet many of those shootings pass with a short item on the nightly news, if they make the news at all. Within a day, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
Kind of like when BLM only shows up when a white person kills a black person, or is that (D)ifferent
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:10 pm to BilJ
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Within a day, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
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Analysis by Together Baton Rouge found that BRPD drug enforcement disproportionately impacts poor, Black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, with African American residents and low-income areas bearing the brunt of arrests.
NBR people: Cops don’t do enough to stop crime in North Baton Rouge!
Also NBR people: Cops are arresting too many people in North Baton Rouge!
You can’t make this shite up.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:11 pm to BilJ
LA Illuminator: Lots of violent crimes happen in black neighborhoods
Also LA Illuminator: Blacks are scared of retribution from other blacks so they are loathe to report crimes or give the police any information to help clean up their neighborhoods.
Also, also LA Illuminator: The only reason those involved in the shooting were rounded up so fast is because it happened in an area considered predominantly white.
Also LA Illuminator: Blacks are scared of retribution from other blacks so they are loathe to report crimes or give the police any information to help clean up their neighborhoods.
Also, also LA Illuminator: The only reason those involved in the shooting were rounded up so fast is because it happened in an area considered predominantly white.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:12 pm to lostinbr
We return to the IQ levels.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:15 pm to BilJ
Wait are we defunding the police? Or expanding the police? Also maybe certain neighborhoods get disproportionally higher policing because that’s where the crimes occur.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:15 pm to BilJ
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In north Baton Rouge, where most residents are Black and many live below the poverty line, gunfire is a regular feature of life.
So God forbid anybody actually tries to do anything about that…let’s just accept that as a normality. No big deal.
And the beat goes on. Same old song and dance. The world keeps spinning. Etc.
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Within a day, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
Hmmm. Are they giving the cops and investigators the information needed to solve murder cases? Or are they not saying shite yet sitting back flinging blame at cops for not solving anything?
This post was edited on 4/28/26 at 7:18 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:16 pm to BilJ
quote:Allie Rice’s family is still waiting too
Within a day, law enforcement had five suspects in custody. Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:24 pm to The Boat
We need more social workers
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:26 pm to Bard
I'm moving to Louisiana..
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The looming return of Jim Crow to Louisiana, America’s second Blackest state
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:27 pm to BilJ
As a former EBRSO Deputy of Gardere west and East which includes the mall, it’s common sense why a mass shooting would garner a quicker response. Or a shooting at an area like that. Not to mention multiple agencies frequent and have jurisdiction. How many cops need to go to your typical shooting at a home in north BR or off Elm. This is ridiculous.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:29 pm to NIH
We just need more Medicaid funding.
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:34 pm to Bard
Yeah the logic there is quite astounding…and not one bit accountability. Shocking
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:35 pm to lostinbr
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NBR people: Cops don’t do enough to stop crime in North Baton Rouge! Also NBR people: Cops are arresting too many people in North Baton Rouge!
And liberal white women are taking this hook, line and sinker.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:36 pm to Sun God
I’m bracing for AwgustaDog to drop a full-length novella explaining, in beautifully circular logic, why the sentiment of OP is somehow still factual.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:37 pm to LSU1SLU
Also typically easier to solve a crime when they do it in a public area like the mall in the middle of the day with plenty of witnesses and cameras…but sure it was because the victim was white
Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:47 pm to BilJ
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Many families in north Baton Rouge have been waiting years for that kind of movement in their own cases.
Because 30 people can be at a BBQ and see nothing.
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