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re: Crime around LSU
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:37 pm to OweO
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:37 pm to OweO
Absolutely agree. I've lived in a couple of rough areas around BR and grew up between Florida and Choctaw. I got used to open carrying as soon as I was legally allowed to. I'm no badass, but if I have to chose between you (you being a criminal) and me, I'm choosing me Everytime.
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Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:41 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Gary Chambers is facebooking your post as we speak. Wait.... it's south Baton Rouge never mind........
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:43 pm to Jim Rockford
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If you don't have a legitimate reason to be on campus, you're not allowed to be there.
Every liberal snowflake on your campus would be holed up in a safe space if you did that.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:44 pm to baseballmind1212
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Florida and Choctaw
Was this always a high crime area? I mean, I know it has been for awhile, but how different is it today than it was.. lets say 25-30 years ago?
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:45 pm to Pavoloco83
Holy shite could you imagine Clarke Perkins getting frisked randomly? There would be a whole years worth of shitty opinion articles about how LSU PD are racists
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:45 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
They need to encourage the landowners and developers to remodel the apartments close to campus rather than building new ones farther and farther away.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:48 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
4's down
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:49 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Build a wall
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:54 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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what can LSU do to decrease crime around campus?
Demolish the Section 8 housing in the back of Tigerland. I gaurantee at least 40% of the crime around LSU that impacts LSU students, and probably closer to 75%, stems from that one complex.
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I have thought for years that the state or the school should buy up as much real estate around the campus to create a buffer zone.
Underway on Nicholson. It's called the Nicholson Gateway project. It basically involves development along Nicholson between Downtown and LSU. Several projects are currently underway with more on hold due to financing. This also includes the tram.
Highland is the bigger issue at the moment, and there are few ways to do much about that area other than gradual gentrification which is happening. Houses are gradually being bought up and demolished to make way for large student housing apartments. The ghetto is gradually pushing farther and farther north from LSU, farther East from Nicholson, and farther West from Park. If the BR/NOLA train happens, the gentrification already underway in Downtown East will go into hyperdrive and the Ghetto will begin being pulled back from Government on South.
In 10 years, if things go according to plan, Old South Baton Rouge and Downtown East may be unrecognizable as relatively safe and convenient neighborhoods for young professionals and students.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 5:55 pm to OweO
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Was this always a high crime area? I mean, I know it has been for awhile, but how different is it today than it was.. lets say 25-30 years ago?
I'm only 24 so I can only speak for the last 10 years or so as that's when I actually took these things into account.
That being said I can remember being high school and not feeling comfortable walking from my car to my house after dark. At the time it was normal to me, so I didn't think anything of it.
Looking back it was not safe and my parents should have gotten us out of there. I can specifically remember guys running the corner starting in ~2007/2008.
The crime just slowly crept up to us. I was held up 2x my senior year at knifepoint coming home late at night from work. That was the final wake-up call for my parents.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:03 pm to baseballmind1212
Tigerland has always been a little seedy, but it only got dangerous around 5 years ago. There's a complex back there that went Section 8, and the thugs from that one complex are robbing, raping, and murdering everyone in the vicinity.
Gardere went bad over 20 years ago, but has seen remarkable progress since community policing was initiated around 4 years ago. Crime in Gardere, especially violent crime, has absolutely plummetted.
The area north of campus was just as bad 50 years ago, and is one of the oldest historic black neighborhoods in the country. The early stages of gentrification are under way. Crime has been, for the most part, trending down in that neighborhood, but a couple of high-profile murders last year threatens to undo that.
Gardere went bad over 20 years ago, but has seen remarkable progress since community policing was initiated around 4 years ago. Crime in Gardere, especially violent crime, has absolutely plummetted.
The area north of campus was just as bad 50 years ago, and is one of the oldest historic black neighborhoods in the country. The early stages of gentrification are under way. Crime has been, for the most part, trending down in that neighborhood, but a couple of high-profile murders last year threatens to undo that.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:20 pm to OweO
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Florida and Choctaw
Was this always a high crime area? I mean, I know it has been for awhile, but how different is it today than it was.. lets say 25-30 years ago?
Yes...ish. Florida was always a commercial shopping area while Choctaw was industrial. It's not like either were ever fancy upperclass homes. Most of what we consider NBR (Plank Road, Mall City, Melrose, Bel-Aire), ect has been bad for a long time. Mall City, Melrose, and Bel-Aire went bad after the oil crunch in the mid 80's. Plank was always a mixed working poor neighborhood, but went from being majority black in the 1920s to majority black some time in the 70's. The last remaining whites largely moved out in the late 80's (following the oil crunch) through the early 90's.
Florida was big because of Bar Marche and then Cortana Mall. What killed Florida was the opening of the Mall of Louisiana, and then later Town Center. While Bon Carre and the renovation of the shopping center where the old Broadmoore theater once was have more or less stabilized the area, it is a shadow of what it once was: the preeminent retail corridor of the city.
However, BR has always been a one horse town for retail.
First it was Downtown along 3rd Street. Then, it moved to Main Street with Godchaux's, then Plank Road, then Bon Marche, then Cortana, then the Mall of Louisiana, and now it has dispersed to several areas like Town Centre, Perkins Rowe, Tanger, Juban Crossing, Seigan Village, and eventually Rouzan.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:24 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
LSU is aware of the problem, and there have been meetings to seek solutions in the very near future until gentrification takes over.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:31 pm to kingbob
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Tigerland has always been a little seedy, but it only got dangerous around 5 years ago. There's a complex back there that went Section 8, and the thugs from that one complex are robbing, raping, and murdering everyone in the vicinity.
I'd say Highland and Nicholson north of campus are worse than Tigerland. Quite a bit worse in fact.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:32 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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I know out-of-state parents that don't know campus or BR well that are very concerned.
As a former OOS student I can only laugh
Posted on 1/3/17 at 6:41 pm to Brosef Stalin
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I'd say Highland and Nicholson north of campus are worse than Tigerland. Quite a bit worse in fact.
Well, no shiite. He was asking about Tigerland, though, not Old South BR or Tigertown. The north side of campus is not Tigerland.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 7:13 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I wish they would round them up and throw them in a 1940 Warsaw ghetto.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 7:30 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
You haven't seen anything yet when it comes to LSU area crime.
The over expansion of "luxury" student apartments and the reduction in TOPS are about to collide, causing a housing bubble to bust.
Those million dollar investment properties along Burbank and Ben Hur aren't going to sit idle when occupancy drops now that many parents will have to pay for tuition. Here comes section 8 creeping north from Gardere.
The over expansion of "luxury" student apartments and the reduction in TOPS are about to collide, causing a housing bubble to bust.
Those million dollar investment properties along Burbank and Ben Hur aren't going to sit idle when occupancy drops now that many parents will have to pay for tuition. Here comes section 8 creeping north from Gardere.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 7:36 pm to The People
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The over expansion of "luxury" student apartments and the reduction in TOPS are about to collide, causing a housing bubble to bust.
I've been screaming this since they started talking about taking tops off the table. Worst case scenario is these places get sold off to people who rent them at lower prices. Thus surrounding the entire LSU are in ghetto. It's a very real possibility, however, as previously mentioned, hopefully LSU would step in at some point.
Posted on 1/3/17 at 7:41 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
If I'm not mistaken LSU has been buying available property directly north of campus.
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