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Posted on 4/15/19 at 5:58 pm to dr smartass phd
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Shreveport started downhill on April 19, 1977 in a Spring lake attic.
I know what you're referring to. That has to be the day George D'Artois (sp?) was arrested. Former Police Chief, although I think he may have had a different title.
PS - Commissioner of Public Safety, I believe.
This post was edited on 4/15/19 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/15/19 at 5:58 pm to dr smartass phd
quote:I suspect I am the only person on this site who knows what this really means, but you are right. For the record, all of the crime occurs in bad neighborhoods. It is a safe city.
Shreveport started downhill on April 19, 1977 in a Spring lake attic.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:07 pm to Slippy
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of my graduating class at Captain Shreve
Slippy is a fellow Gator.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:11 pm to KCT
KCT, what area outside S'port?
It was always there. I used to listen to a police scanner. The black-on-black crime in The Bottoms, the MLK area, in Cedar Grove, Queensboro andHollywood Heights was always there, just under-reported by the news. The police used to call it a JANI, aka Just Another N×@@+* Incident.
Paul Carmouche was District Attorney and probably had a 99% conviction record for this stuff. The police, you recall, were run by George D'Artois, who was as racist as they come, but his police force wasn't to be fricked with. And the sheriff's office didn't frick around when it came to drugs. They actively infiltrated the black gangs and stoners and shut that shite down as much as they could.
Lots of that was under the radar, but today, it's front and center, and more "reported" murders. When I come back to Shreveport every three or four months, there isn't a lot of good to report. The ONLY way I would ever move back is if I could head up a commission on removing Shreveport from the gambling teat and force them into raising property taxes to pay for a technology centered magnet high school that works in partnership with silicon valley initiatives to train kids in what fields and opportunities are REALLY out there because in my experience, kids growing up there now have no chance at participating in the tech economy.
It was always there. I used to listen to a police scanner. The black-on-black crime in The Bottoms, the MLK area, in Cedar Grove, Queensboro andHollywood Heights was always there, just under-reported by the news. The police used to call it a JANI, aka Just Another N×@@+* Incident.
Paul Carmouche was District Attorney and probably had a 99% conviction record for this stuff. The police, you recall, were run by George D'Artois, who was as racist as they come, but his police force wasn't to be fricked with. And the sheriff's office didn't frick around when it came to drugs. They actively infiltrated the black gangs and stoners and shut that shite down as much as they could.
Lots of that was under the radar, but today, it's front and center, and more "reported" murders. When I come back to Shreveport every three or four months, there isn't a lot of good to report. The ONLY way I would ever move back is if I could head up a commission on removing Shreveport from the gambling teat and force them into raising property taxes to pay for a technology centered magnet high school that works in partnership with silicon valley initiatives to train kids in what fields and opportunities are REALLY out there because in my experience, kids growing up there now have no chance at participating in the tech economy.
This post was edited on 4/15/19 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:14 pm to dr smartass phd
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Shreveport started downhill on April 19, 1977 in a Spring lake attic.
That dude in the "attic" was scum.
RIP Jim Leslie.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:15 pm to La Place Mike
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That dude in the "attic" was scum.
RIP Jim Leslie.
Exactly and all the city dirty laundry was exposed
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:16 pm to shrevetigertom
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I suspect I am the only person on this site who knows what this really means, but you are right. For the record, all of the crime occurs in bad neighborhoods. It is a safe city.
I knew what it was because I knew the deputy that went up in that attic to get him.
And it's sad that there's a kernel of truth to this. But that's all it is, a kernel. You couldn't do what D'artois did now and a lot of what he did contributed to Shreveport's decline so it's a wash.
Said it before... Bossier being right across the moat known as Red River makes it way too simple to escape Shreveport and live in a place you probably don't even have to lock your house while you can still commute to work in Shreveport, if you've still got a job there. Shreveport/Caddo is dying and it's not going to come back. It's going to be pure black in the end and not the kind with jobs. They all moved to Bossier too.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:18 pm to shrevetigertom
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I suspect I am the only person on this site who knows what this really means
There are a couple. I was 14, what a surreal day that was.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:22 pm to dr smartass phd
quote:Seemed like half of Shreve left school to go watch the action that day.
There are a couple. I was 14, what a surreal day that was.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:25 pm to dr smartass phd
I am good friends with his kids. Dark day. However, things worked smoothly when he was in charge.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:31 pm to shrevetigertom
quote:No you're not.
I suspect I am the only person on this site who knows what this really means, but you are right. For the record, all of the crime occurs in bad neighborhoods. It is a safe city.
The bad neighborhoods have grown: Highland, Southern Hills, Sunset Acres, South Highlands, Western Hills, North Highlands. Really sad.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:33 pm to KCT
Best Bowl Game atmosphere anywhere!
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:33 pm to HubbaBubba
quote:You are right. I am insulated in Ellerbe South but much of the city has deteriorated.
The bad neighborhoods have grown: Highland, Southern Hills, Sunset Acres, South Highlands, Western Hills, North Highlands. Really sad.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:34 pm to HubbaBubba
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The ONLY way I would ever move back is if I could head up a commission on removing Shreveport from the gambling teat and force them into raising property taxes to pay for a technology centered magnet high school that works in partnership with silicon valley initiatives to train kids in what fields and opportunities are REALLY out there because in my experience, kids growing up there now have no chance at participating in the tech economy.
Caddo is already some of the highest property taxes in the state. It goes to education and it has some seriously shitty education with a very top heavy administration. Right across the river where they don't have that problem, there's a tech community at the Cyber Research park that's attracting hundreds of tech jobs.
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They've already built what you're talking about in conjunction with BPCC which is right there at the CIC and they're getting locals the training they need to walk across the street and go to work at General Dynamics making good money.
The infrastructure is in place to expand this initiative. Bossier and the state are actively pursuing companies to do what CSRA(now General Dynamics) did and build a campus there. They'll probably get it.
That would not have happened in Shreveport and it won't happen in the future. Partly because it's already in Bossier.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:37 pm to shrevetigertom
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things worked smoothly when he was in charge.
He kept a lid on things.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:42 pm to Captain Rumbeard
quote:Interesting. The fact that Shrevepirt is more concerned with shoring up downtown entertainment and not technology is exactly what I'm alluding to.
That would not have happened in Shreveport and it won't happen in the future. Partly because it's already in Bossier.
Kudos to Bossier for doing it, but for the vast majority of kids, that opportunity doesn't exist, and the schools don't know how to channel kids into STEM educational opportunities or teach them more than being an IT grunt making only $45k a year.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:43 pm to HubbaBubba
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KCT, what area outside S'port?
My Dad lives a couple of miles from Northwood High School. Very close to the golf course. That area is terrific, of course, but we watch the Shreveport TV channels.
We didn't always live there, though. From the ages of 5-13, I grew up in the Southwood area off of Walker Rd.
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:48 pm to KCT
Whats really sad for me when I see these once nice cities is the value of so many good people's home turn to shite. Some hardworking middle to lower middle class people made payments on a house for most of their working life only to have the value fall to shite. Terrible waste
Posted on 4/15/19 at 6:50 pm to KCT
I moved my Mom out last year. Contrary to what a couple of others have posted, what were once nice areas of town are no longer. There is no “good side if the tracks” in S’port anymore.
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