re: 47 homicides and counting in BR

Just wondering- any of you have enough time under your belt to remember when the Gardere area actually wasn't bad? It's been a long time- but there was indeed a time when most of that area was occupied by students and young people starting out....

I remember there were a few decent places where you could go get a beer and shoot some pool with not much chance of being forced to shoot anything else.

Those days are long gone, my brothers....

that doesnt look like checkpoints.

thats just the easiest place to pull someone over at

its probably the same cop that has always sat outside the bulldog and pull people over leaving the bar. if you take a left onto perkins from the lot and dont use your blinker, he already has his reason for pulling you over

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Just wondering- any of you have enough time under your belt to remember when the Gardere area actually wasn't bad? It's been a long time- but there was indeed a time when most of that area was occupied by students and young people starting out....

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I do. I was a kid. Our school bus went through there. It wasn't bad at all circa 1984. But the sewer treatment plant smell helped drive people out of the area and rent down.

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that doesnt look like checkpoints.

thats just the easiest place to pull someone over at

its probably the same cop that has always sat outside the bulldog and pull people over leaving the bar. if you take a left onto perkins from the lot and dont use your blinker, he already has his reason for pulling you over

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Dude. Go run a filter for 1100 Lee Drive. 175 arrests/citations at that ONE address.
It's 100% a checkpoint.

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to my knowledge, yes.

or at least it used to be.

i havent seen or heard of checkpoints in awhile. uber kind of took care of that. i think the police started losing money on it

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Right. Not saying Lee drive is an 'official' checkpoint but... every citation at 1100 Lee Drive between midnight and 3 am on Saturday mornings.

Checkpoints are so 2010

its a combo of things.


people leaving bulldog and turning left onto perkins going to lee
leaving uncle earls and going lee
leaving overpass and going to lee
no one stops completely at the light.

and the same cop would sit there and follow you down lee and either pull you over at Lee High (1100 Lee) or Boone. the guy won the award for giving out the most dwis like 3 years in a row

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But the sewer treatment plant smell helped drive people out of the area and rent down.

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You admit you were a kid then so I don’t fault you for being wrong since you weren’t driving and wouldn’t notice. The reason Gardere fell apart was because the city promised to four lane Burbank and Nicholson and then didn’t. All of these developers built hundreds upon hundreds of apartments and condos for students and then you had two lanes of traffic to get to LSU each way. It was a colossal clusterfrick even for Baton Rouge. Hour drive time at peak traffic. Needless to say, students were out there a couple of semesters before they pulled out. The developers immediately started filling the empty condos with Section 8 and the rest is history. The few developers who didn’t go Section 8 immediately lost their asses. A friend of mine made a shite ton of money buying up foreclosures and under market value places out there and becoming a legit slum lord. He had a warehouse behind his office full of furniture, TV’s and other stuff. When people wouldn’t pay rent, his crew would just go over and take their shite. No one complained or called the cops on them because most were drug dealers or the shite was stolen anyway.