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Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:08 pm to
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
60579 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:08 pm to
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I wonder what BR would be like if Katrina never happened
youve got to be fricking kidding me

quote:

Were we already on this trajectory before that?
YES YOU frickING MORON.
Posted by OldSouth
Folsom, LA
Member since Oct 2011
11006 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:09 pm to
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It’s just a saying. Across all societies, countries, communities it’s the bottom 1/4 that frick it up for everyone else.
I’m aware of the saying.
The saying needs to be adjusted to 13%.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
16623 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:09 pm to
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Not the same area.

Next exit after the mall, same side of the interstate, opposite side of Siegen and only 2.5 miles between the 2?

You sound like Vanilla Ice trying to justify his signature song sounding nothing like Queen’s Under Pressure.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
52399 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:09 pm to
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Seriously? BR has been a shithole for decades.


I’m sure you’re right. I just don’t remember it being that bad from 90 to 02 when I was there.
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
78367 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:11 pm to
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I just don’t remember it being that bad from 90 to 02 when I was there


It wasn't as far south but the population was lower. There were plenty of murders. Probably the most murders in the last 50 years.

The 90s were terrible all over the US.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 3:12 pm
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
47815 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:11 pm to
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just don’t remember it being that bad from 90 to 02 when I was there.


It wasn’t
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103956 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:11 pm to
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I’m sure you’re right. I just don’t remember it being that bad from 90 to 02 when I was there.


Pretty sure the pre-Broome records for homicides were in the mid-90s over drug territory fighting.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
52399 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:12 pm to
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YES YOU frickING MORON.


Geez. Calm the frick down. It was an innocent question.
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
Member since Jul 2005
11101 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:12 pm to
I remember when the Mall opened and how nice it was. BR was having problems in the 1990s, but if you stayed out of the bad neighborhoods you were fine.
Posted by BOSCEAUX
Where the Down Boys go.
Member since Mar 2008
52399 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:13 pm to
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Pretty sure the pre-Broome records for homicides were in the mid-90s over drug territory fighting.


But it was still mostly contained to N BR correct? Well you had a pretty rough area out by Gardere also.
Posted by RunninReb
Member since Feb 2023
485 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:13 pm to
the gang style hit job years ago in front of the JR Alexander's was a "show of force".

It let law abiding residents of BR know that the mall was now turf belonging to the gangs. They can conduct their "bidness" on this property whenever they so please.

Today's foolishness was another example of the gangs reminding you that the Mall belongs to them.

Now that they have a stronghold in the middle of White BR, their brazenness will likely increase.
Posted by jamarr
Member since Jul 2019
1751 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:13 pm to
Lee Kwan yew of singapore says that to create a good and peaceful society you need to carefully curate what sort of people are there.

seems like the local mix is less than optimal
Posted by tigafan4life
Member since Dec 2006
50981 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:14 pm to
Nope. Just two groups of people. Don't know anything else. God forbid they say the color of the people.
Posted by Ping Pong
LSU and UVA alum
Member since Aug 2014
6247 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:14 pm to
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Is there a city of over 250k that isn’t in this whole country? Is there a place where you can live that isn’t 30 minutes away from a shithole?


Not quite 250,000 but still large cities:

Boise, Idaho
Portland, Maine
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
60579 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
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But it was accelerated by it.
BR’s decline was not accelerated by Katrina

North Baton Rouge was a hell hole by the early 90s. With mandated section 8 housing and the ease of obtaining government benefits - it was inevitable.

Having Southern university where teaching degrees are handed out and those teachers get paid pretty well in the public school system and are able to buy houses in good areas through ‘programs’ - it was inevitable

Same thing with working for city/parish or any of the plants. DEI ruined the country.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
16623 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
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I wonder why these particular people are so violent. I am told it is generational trauma and exploitation

It’s obviously slavery.

Just don’t ask why no other demographic behaved the same way hundreds of years after their ancestors were enslaved.
Posted by JimTiger72
LA
Member since Jun 2023
18868 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
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Baton Rouge PD is the lead Agency and supported by LSP Troop A Troopers & EBR Sheriff's Office. Two shooting suspects remain at large

Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
61723 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
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It wasn’t


It was pretty bad in the early 90’s when the crack epidemic was taking over. BR had a lot of murders back then, but it was almost all in north BR.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103956 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
Yes, murders were mostly limited to NBR.

Hell, most of the past 10+ years have been limited to NBR minus a few specific incidents such as the hit right outside the mall and the guy who ambushed the cops on Airline near Old Hammond.
Posted by Shooter
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
9197 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:15 pm to
Culcha ruins everything!
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