re: Would you support a 'Don't Send Your Kids To LSU' campaign?

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Austin has better demographics but is going downhill - downtown is blocks from campus with a ton of homeless people and lots of crime. I've listened to 2 true crime podcast about UT students being murdered . I guess people shouldn't send their kids to UT anymore

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Interestingly enough, I remember in the early 2000’s Kip Holden lead a delegation of folks to Austin to tour it and take notes. It was considered one of our “sister cities” (his words, not mine) at the time by some.

Coincidentally Austin is sharing a similar fate today. It was obviously already a pretty blue city but the constant importing of Californians has begun to flip it into a similar, quickly advancing shithole.

Either way, I’d bet that their first future thugged out campus murder will end up happening after LSU’s. (And yeah, this is not counting the clock tower shooting in the 60’s). The difference is that they still have a somewhat competent city police department and a frick ton more alumni money than we can claim.

How many Maddy Brooks and Allie Rice’s can we stomach? With this shooting that literally happened 100 yards off campus, and yeah I know it wasn’t a student, but still - with violent crime slowly encroaching every corner of campus (and off campus) at an alarming rate, how much longer can we just sit back and pretend nothings wrong?

Send the kids to LSU with a gun and marksmanship training.

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People seem to want to deny that but it's a fact. Just look at the data above.

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Eta: at the time I commented, there was no graph in the post.

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As I said in my original post, Baton Rouge had way more violent crime in the 80s and 90s vs. today and was a much more dangerous city. People seem to want to deny that but it's a fact. Just look at the data above

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Weird that violent crime would be way higher but murder way lower. It's not really hard to lookup the 3 highest murder totals in BR history and they were 2020-2022.

The coroner measures parish vs city but the vast majority occur in BR

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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Data reveals that homicides in Baton Rouge are declining. But the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney says there is still more work to do.

Rhonda Wilson, the mother of a homicide victim named Percy Wilson, said, “I have been calling detectives every week.”

In 2022, there were 115 homicides in Baton Rouge compared to the record-breaking 150 in 2021

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aton Rouge had way more violent crime in the 80s and 90s vs. today

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Certainly doesn't feel like it. I was in HS in the 80s and college in the 90s and I don't remember it being this bad

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This all day and Sunday. Not only do I have a hard time following you on merit, but unless you lived here during it, I think you’re just blatantly full of fricking shite

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I was at Lsu starting in the mid 90s. The country and particularly New Orleans had big crime issues at the time.

BR wasn't Mayberry either but murder was a good bit lower than recently. And it's not only that violent crime is happening, it's where it's happening too, which is all over South BR. I lived in Tigerland and off of State Street in the 90s

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How many Maddy Brooks and Allie Rice’s can we stomach? With this shooting that literally happened 100 yards off campus, and yeah I know it wasn’t a student, but still - with violent crime slowly encroaching every corner of campus (and off campus) at an alarming rate, how much longer can we just sit back and pretend nothings wrong?

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Do you follow the police blotter of all these cities and see what kind of crime happens around each campus?

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These are just from basic searches of crimes happening on and around UT campus to UT students

No, but none of my kids are going to LSU. I loved LSU when I went for undergrad in the mid 90s and grad school in the early 2000s. Bottom line — Baton Rouge has become a sh!thole. End of story.

So many other “college towns” are better than Baton Rouge. Sh!tty politicians and cookie-cutter homes have only made it worse.

Glad I left Baton Rouge when I did and never looked back.

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Would you support a 'Don't Send Your Kids To LSU' campaign?

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I don't dismiss your idea as out of hand. And if I thought it would help LSU in the long run I'd be in favor of it.

Far too many are unwilling to come to terms with the fact that the campus sits in the midst of a culcha farm that is in no way beneficial to LSU or anyone else who prefers to live in honor.

BR as I knew it as a kid/teen in the 60s, 70s, and 80s was considered a nice city and by no means an unsafe city. I don't think that's the perception anymore. Sadly.