I never said the table specified homicide rate. I said in my post it was a table depicting total violent crimes (includes rape, assaults, armed robberies, etc.). My point was that violent crime was worse in BR in the 80s and 90s, that's just a fact. The number of homicides, in pure numbers, are definitely up the last 3 years. The highest homicide rate per 100,000 people, though, at least as of 2020 (can't find data past this), was in 1993. I bet 2021 through 2023 and 1993 are in the same ball park as far at homicide rates go, especially if you go with the rate of East Baton Rouge Parish. Baton Rouge's population has been stagnant over the years but EBR parish has about 75,000 more people now vs. the 90s.

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Posted by fallguy_1978

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Posted on 5/21/23 at 11:34 am to Monkeyboy

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My point was that violent crime was worse in BR in the 80s and 90s, that's just a fact.

I remember BR in those times quite well. You might have had a good deal of crime in North Baton Rouge in the 90s but just about the entirety of South Baton Rouge was safe outside of a few neighborhoods. We didn't have gangland style hits in broad daylight on Bluebonnet

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Posted by AlwysATgr

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Posted on 5/21/23 at 3:09 pm to Monkeyboy

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Monkeyboy

Let me help you out.

Unless the stats you're referring to have been normalized, they're not making an apples-to-apples comparison across the years.

It's a little disingenuous to quote violent crime numbers but fail to acknowledge the huge spike in homicides.

On a simpler plane, in the 60s - 80s time frame, there were isolated pockets in BR that one might deem unsafe. That has been inverted such that there are only isolated pockets that are safe.

Your workmanship is suspect.

This post was edited on 5/21/23 at 3:10 pm

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