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Can BR really be saved?
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:54 pm
The series of events over the last several months shows there is no safe place in BR. I’m not sure the BRDP, DA, mayor, or anyone will ever be able to control the city. The damage is too deep and is only getting worse. Over 50% of the area you don’t want to be driving through and the other 50% of the area is hit or miss at all hours of the day or night. The nicer areas are constantly being burglarized by areas not even a 10 min drive away from homes valued at a fraction of the other homes. You have million dollar homes which are blocks away from homes that have a value of 50k at 1500 sq ft. I hate to say it but this place is not the place I grew up in. Realistically you can’t blame law enforcement on shooting when they happen multiple times a day at any given moment. You would have to bulldoze half the city. If you read into the history of Baton Rouge and how the city came to be it opens your eyes to this place was set to fail from the start.
This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm
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Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:55 pm to tigersfan1989
It’s slowly becoming Jackson tier
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:55 pm to tigersfan1989
Oh this thread again.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:57 pm to tigersfan1989
Some of y’all are far too scared to go out by yourself.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:57 pm to tigersfan1989
Places don’t come back when they reach the levels of Jackson, Baltimore, Detroit and Baton Rouge.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:58 pm to tigersfan1989
Doubtful. It would require a lot of gentrification which would require a desirable city for young professionals to live in. More likely it will continue to slide.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:58 pm to tigersfan1989
Political correctness will prevent the real problems from being addressed.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm to tigersfan1989
Would require a massive change in demographic voting trends
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm to tigersfan1989
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:00 pm to tigersfan1989
Sadly, not in anyones lifetime.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:01 pm to Big Jim Slade
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Political correctness will prevent the real problems from being addressed.
This is a problem nationwide. Y’all pretend that Baton Rouge is the only place on earth, but we have a major political party who pushed “defund the police” and actively elects activist judges and shitty DA’s BECAUSE they don’t enforce the law.
Fix DC and you will fix your hometown.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:02 pm to tigersfan1989
Baton Rouge was not and never has been a nice place to live.
It's the corrupt capital of a corrupt state.
There's a university that has more people who like football than the degree.
Have you tried to do business there? It's like 1960 there.
It's the corrupt capital of a corrupt state.
There's a university that has more people who like football than the degree.
Have you tried to do business there? It's like 1960 there.
This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:03 pm to tigersfan1989
All these cities start declining the same way. Hire incompetent city workers, work and services decrease with no threat of losing job. Political cronyism, decline increases exponentially while the mayors get worse, DAs get worse, assistant DAs get worse, judges become criminals defense system, all Democrats of course.
The only way to fix it will be to go scorched earth on criminals, build prisons and incarcerate the violent criminals
The only way to fix it will be to go scorched earth on criminals, build prisons and incarcerate the violent criminals
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:03 pm to tigersfan1989
Nope.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:05 pm to mahdragonz
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Baton Rouge was not and never has been a nice place to live.
That's not true. BR was a pretty decent place to raise a family 30+ years ago.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:05 pm to fallguy_1978
As long as people choose political correctness and delusion over safety and honesty, things will always go down.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:05 pm to tigersfan1989
Unfortunately, this is a saga that has played out many, many times over the past 30 years all across the south. Once a certain group takes over, the collapse is inevitable and there's nothing that can bring it back.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:06 pm to tigersfan1989
It can be saved, but there is no electable person currently in the realm of BR politics that can get it done.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:07 pm to Jack Daniel
Politically what can really be done about north BR? I think as long as you have that high crime area it will always find its way into areas of honest hard working individuals with values just trying to raise a family.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:09 pm to upgrayedd
John Parker ruined BR although we probably would have ended up here anyway. It took about a decade to really get the full effect of his ruling though.
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