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re: Highland Neighborhood Walmart
Posted on 5/3/21 at 7:46 am to Breauxsif
Posted on 5/3/21 at 7:46 am to Breauxsif
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BR has gotten really dangerous the past several years it feels like. It’s always has been, however now, with over 120 murders last year, it feels
It's always had some crime issues but not like it does now.
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Posted on 5/3/21 at 7:53 am to fallguy_1978
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It's always had some crime issues but not like it does now.
i lived there 2001-2008 and the problem is that BR was pretty segregated in terms of bad areas. other than Gardere, you had to go north of Florida to really feel like you were getting into a dangerous area.
but post-Katrina, the Geauz-zone tax treatment led to an explosion of new "student" housing, which opened up the floodgates for the old student housing to go Section 8. now that's created a cycle of development/section 8 that's consumed large portions of the area where students live
violent crime scales with the gini coefficient, especially in smaller geographic areas with a larger gap
Posted on 5/3/21 at 8:12 am to SlowFlowPro
I've lived in the BR metro for 40 of my 43 years. The school desegregation ruling really accelerated things although I think we'd have ended up about where we are now either way. Believe it or not, much of the area north of Florida was fine in the 80s.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 8:25 am to Breauxsif
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Damn, absolutely terrible if true.
I'd like some information as well.
Daily shootings are all fine and dandy when it's one low-life targeting another low-life.
But 'crimes of opportunity' at a Neighborhood Walmart in a decent part of town are understandably more concerning.
This really "could have been you" as the OT often says.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 8:36 am to mikelbr
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This really "could have been you" as the OT often says.
Yeah the hood beef shootings in parts of town I'm never in don't usually concern me all that much.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 8:39 am to TigerGrad2011
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One of my first memories of LSU happened at those apartments next door in the late 90s. Seemed to be a lot of sorority girls living there back then, and I’m sure that percentage has shrunk to almost non existent if any.
Had a bunch of good times back in the day at that place.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 9:18 am to fallguy_1978
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although I think we'd have ended up about where we are now either way.
I don't think so. I think if BR had decent public schools like it once did then more companies would want to be located in Baton Rouge. It would look a lot different. I think Ascension, Zachary, Central, LP would look a bit different too.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 1:32 pm to fallguy_1978
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It's always had some crime issues but not like it does now.
If you count the double homicide that occurred in Baker, the SU Professor who was gunned down, and all the killings that took place over the weekend, BR is tracking for 147 murders at the current pace. This is all occurring before the summer months, when the killings will really start to ratchet up.
Of course, not a peep from SWB and Paul.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 1:43 pm to Breauxsif
last summer the blacks didn't get to kill each other as much cause of covid, but this summer could be lit for black dead bodies
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