re: Central Incorporation vs. St George (EBR)

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Not at all. CITY police are to be paid, in full, by the CITY they patrol. I’m not sure how you find that to be a weird view.

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yet you expect people from the rest of the parish to subsidize the EBRSO patrols in St. George. Hypocrisy noted.

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By all means, let’s continue the decades old pattern of the middle class fleeing the parish for ascension and Livingston instead of trying to keep them in the parish.

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Do you really think a move that every regional economic development agency and many business leaders have said will be detrimental to attracting and retaining business to the region will help that?

You think this will slow people leaving the parish. I think it will exacerbate people leaving the metro region and the state in general. What's good for St. George might be good for St. George, but what is bad for Baton Rouge is bad for the entire metro region.

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Oh, am I too brash for you? Get over it cupcake. If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. I’ve yet to say anything but hard hitting facts. Sorry your feelings get hurt.

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Look chief, you can carry on however you want. I think it is cute when you internet tough guys hide behind your keyboards typing shite you wouldn't say to someone's face.

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yet you expect people from the rest of the parish to subsidize the EBRSO patrols in St. George. Hypocrisy noted.

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Nope.

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Do you really think a move that every regional economic development agency and many business leaders have said will be detrimental to attracting and retaining business to the region will help that?

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Do I think the city of Baton Rouge is lying their arse off to keep their cash cow?

Absolutely.

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You think this will slow people leaving the parish. I think it will exacerbate people leaving the metro region and the state in general. What's good for St. George might be good for St. George, but what is bad for Baton Rouge is bad for the entire metro region.

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It’ll absolutely help stem the outflow of the parish. I’m sorry that you can’t see that.

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Look chief, you can carry on however you want. I think it is cute when you internet tough guys hide behind your keyboards typing shite you wouldn't say to someone's face.

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You don’t know me very well. I’ll say to your face that you’re a fricking idiot.

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Surely you do not believe that police protection will only cost $4m?

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A police chief and police dept. won’t cost 4 million dollars.

EBRSO will continue their patrols. The four million is to supplement their patrol efforts.
We will continue to pay property tax to the Sheriff as we do now. That and the four million should be plenty of money to maintain services.

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ENTIRE parish.

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Yes they do but, according to their own spokesperson, their primary focus is police protection in unincorporated areas.

Is SG going to be incorporated?

If you’re an indication of how rabidly obtuse SG supporters are then it should be an absolute bloodbath as MOP works her way through your flawed positions.

Unfortunately, Central will be in the blast radius.

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Good luck with that! Sheriff budgets are quite opaque.

That said, I doubt it is as much as you think. The sheriff does have offices in the city. Remember criminal patrol is smaller part of what they do compared to the BRPD. They have a whole civil division for taxes. On the criminal side they also run the parish prison.

Remember the sheriff is elected parishwide. I am sure he isn't going to write off a huge voter based in the city by ignoring them.

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Yes, it’s not like you can find an accounting of what the sheriff spends on patrols.

They have one HQ at the airport in the city limits and substations in Scotlandville and at L’auberge that are also inside the city limits.

There is one substation in SG located on Airline and Barringer.

Three other substations are in unincorporated EBR, and one is in Central.

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Yes they do but, according to their own spokesperson, their primary focus is police protection in unincorporated areas.

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And the patrols are a tiny portion of what the sheriff dept handles. Surely you know that, right?

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Is SG going to be incorporated?

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Yep. And they’ll be paying 4 million extra for some more patrols that benefit the entire parish. Also, as you wel know, st George isn’t the crime filled shite hole that Baton Rouge is, so the cost of policing is quite less.

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you’re an indication of how rabidly obtuse SG supporters are then it should be an absolute bloodbath as MOP works her way through your flawed positions.

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I’d love to sit across the table from that decrepit corpse. I’d give her the verbal fricking she hasn’t had since prohibition.

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Unfortunately, Central will be in the blast radius.

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You’ll be completely unaffected, pleb.

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How can it get worse?

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Baton Rouge isn't an attractive market now, and higher taxes are looming. That won't help. I think the longterm of all this is the metro region looks more like Metro Detroit than Metro Houston.

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higher taxes are looming. That won't help.

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When was the last time the city of Baton Rouge went 5 years without raising taxes?

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So you live in Central but are opposed to St George? That's an interesting position

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Yes. I would love for SG to become a utopia. However, I’m looking at this logically to predict what the next moves will be and this is what my position is based on. Both sides have been incredibly short-sighted. It’s like watching two people fight at Sonic. Nobody really wins.

I like EBRSO and don’t want Central PD to turn into DSPD.

Still waiting on you to finish my easy 2 question pop quiz. Why won’t you take it?