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re: For those old enough: Is Baton Rouge Safer?
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:40 am to Mung
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:40 am to Mung
My evidence is living over 50 years in BR. It’s worse now than the 80s. Huge swaths of BR have turned to shite over the decades.
Neighborhoods that were safe are now shite holes.
Prosperous business streets now look like Plank road.
Lots more beggars and street addicts.
LSU campus proper more dangerous.
Tiger Town now Mogadishu.
Judge Parker single handily destroyed the EBR school system.
Some things have stayed the same but not many.
Huge impacts happened from Katrina and then the flood.
Take your statistics that all cities manipulate and shove them up your arse. It’s worse.
Neighborhoods that were safe are now shite holes.
Prosperous business streets now look like Plank road.
Lots more beggars and street addicts.
LSU campus proper more dangerous.
Tiger Town now Mogadishu.
Judge Parker single handily destroyed the EBR school system.
Some things have stayed the same but not many.
Huge impacts happened from Katrina and then the flood.
Take your statistics that all cities manipulate and shove them up your arse. It’s worse.
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Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:04 am to lsu777
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as far as the ghetto spreading, well as white flite occurs to the out lying parishes and St george areas...someone is going to buy that property. its not really spreading, though as the stats show
I predict in 15-20 years you will see white flight occurring in St. George at a pretty steady rate, much like it has in many parts of Baton Rouge in the last 50 year.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:02 am to The Ramp
Is it really that bad now? Have a family member entering in August. BR:LSU folks so seems odd they’d allow it if this bad now.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:14 am to Dixie2023
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Is it really that bad now? Have a family member entering in August. BR:LSU folks so seems odd they’d allow it if this bad now.
There is at least one or two, if not more deadly shooting's that occur in the Bottom per month, which is right next to the Northgate's of LSU. Student housing around State St or Aster St is risky. Back in 2007, two PhD students from India were shot to death at the Edward Gay apartment complex.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:40 am to Falco
Seemed like it was safer in the late 90’s early 2000’s but their was some paranoia when Derek Todd Lee and Sean Gillis were making the rounds though.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:44 am to Breauxsif
My daughter stayed in Kirby Smith by the north gate area. We didn’t know how bad it was. There were issues developing back then at LSU, but not like now. I’d never send my kids there these days
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:46 am to Dixie2023
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Man, I can remember Lobdell, Wooddale, Flannery, North Sherwood, most of Greenwell Springs Rd all being thriving communities. Plank Road used to not be a no-go zone. They are all shitholes now, and all of this happened in my lifetime.
What areas are known as "thriving communities" today?
This post was edited on 7/24/26 at 11:47 am
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:58 am to Motorboat
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I just went and got gas and I did not feel safe. Exxon at Perkins and Essen after the pump at Perkins and college didn’t work.
Why did you not feel safe? Did you pump your gas and leave?
I don’t understand why people think it’s not safe. If you’re minding your business and get in & out 99% of the time nothing will happen.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 11:58 am to UptownJoeBrown
What destroyed the EBR school system was whitey fleeing it because they couldn’t stand the thought of their kids going to school with brown kids. 50+ years of white flight tends to hurt public schools.
Anyhow, if it’s so turrible here, you should move. Vermont is about 91% white. Prolly no crime up there.
Anyhow, if it’s so turrible here, you should move. Vermont is about 91% white. Prolly no crime up there.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 12:00 pm to cypresstiger
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50s
60s
70s
80s
All great eras in BR. Economy booming, optimism up.
90s ok too
Since Katrina, decline
Absolutely spot on.
Another change for the worse that happened overnight following Katrina was the traffic. It's been HORRIFIC ever since....People may call it a coincidence if they like- but it happened.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 12:31 pm to Mung
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What destroyed the EBR school system was whitey fleeing it because they couldn’t stand the thought of their kids going to school with brown kids. 50+ years of white flight tends to hurt public schools.
Same thing is going to happen if and when the St. George School opens. Once the demographics start creeping above 30% black, white flight will begin and steadily increase. To me it's very predictable.
This post was edited on 7/24/26 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 7/24/26 at 12:35 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Yup. Blacks are much more emboldened at earlier ages.
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