re: WTH is going on in Jefferson Parish

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So soft that every murder except for 1 has been solved. Including the JC killer in less than 24 hours.

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I’ll give them credit for solving the case quickly, but the killer did leave his cellphone at first shooting. They weren’t exactly splitting the atom on that case.

JP is named after a slave-holder.

Until this travesty is addressed, bad gris-gris will mount.

And reparations should be part of the remedy.

Yea, Lemon Playground which if you ever played sports in JPRD when you were younger you would know that neighborhood has been rough for 40 years.

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This guy knows his $hit ! Have an upvote.

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I can't tell if you're serious and poking fun at a wordy, yet empty answer. What does he know? He didn't say anything.

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“Fix the schools”
“Lower crime”

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Brilliant! That's what I figure his answer will be. Nobody has ever thought of that. Oh, and more money tossed down the hole will fix it too.

As New Orleans housing gets more expensive, trash will continue to move to Jefferson Parish. However it doesn’t seem like that is the case with these murders. At least the JPs solve the large majority of their murders.

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guess you have never heard of Harry Lee

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GOAT

Another murder in Jefferson last night.

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I’m in my 40s, and as long as i can remember, people have been ignoring issues in New Orleans like crappy schools, and their solution has just been to keep moving further and further away from the city... Not surprising that NOLA problems are now infiltrating Metry, eventually they will make it across the bridge to Mandeville/Covington as well (in some cases already have).. Eventually people will just run out of places to move to, but probably not in my lifetime, i guess, so they dont care.. god forbid we actually address some of the problems, instead of just moving away from them

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For the record I think Metairie is generally a fine place to live for most people. That said the initial "inner ring" suburbs are starting to struggle in many places. Over the past 20 years many urban cities have done a better job addressing social/infrastructure issues than the suburbs who just deny they exist. If I'm middle/upper middle class, why would I pay the same money to live in the burbs where I have to drive everwhere, crime is only slightly better, the public (and private) schools are only marginally better, and I still might flood.

There are great areas of uptown, mid-city, lake neighborhoods with decent schools (or closer to my kids private schools), closer to work downtown, and I can walk to stuff and maybe even take transit when I want. In that case I'm willing to pay more for a house because the Metairie advantages aren't that great anymore.

Baton Rouge is seeing the same thing, over the past 10 years I've know numerous families with kids who have moved to the neighborhoods around LSU/City Park. Problem is there are only a few neighborhoods in BR that meet this criteria.

Culcha baw