re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?

Born and raised in the "garden district " near city park. Beautiful neighborhoods and homes around there. We would ride our bikes to the park and play all day. Then one day our bikes started missing, the little store down the street was robbed several times, a neighbor was attacked in her home, and stuff started walking off around the house. My dad came face to face with a thief stealing our large ferns on the front porch one day, It was a 15+- yo kid, and dad was armed with his revolver. He let the kid go and we sold the house a few months later as he was afraid he was going to kill someone over something stupid like stolen house plants. We loved that house but crime completely pushed us south of that area. The swimming pool at city park closed before I ever got to swim in it, but I herd it was nice as well. It was just a turtle pond to us. Then years later it was filled in. I sure miss the unlocked doors, big screen porches and nights where neighbors would just hang out.