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re: Offseason topic: murder and violent crime rate in SEC towns...
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:35 pm to SouthOfSouth
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:35 pm to SouthOfSouth
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In Baton Rouge's defense, there are basically 2 cities side by side that these stats call one. North Baton Rouge is very very crime ridden where most of South Baton Rouge (minus some small pockets like where Guice is from) is realtively to very safe.
Baton Rouge is like a mini Memphis. The closer you get to the river in Memphis, the worse the crime is. The suburbs of Memphis (Germantown specifically) have some of the lowest crime rates in the state whereas Memphis has some of the worst crime rates in the country.
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Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:37 pm to texag7
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This is their bar scene. Just look at this
I always thought the first season of True Detective captured the aesthetic of Louisiana perfectly. Ugly. Some what practical. Everything is in a constant state of disrepair but you can’t tell if it is 5 years passed its expiration or 50. Their buildings, factories, roads and bridges might as well be from Soviet Russia. Always overcast. It always seems like it just rained. Like the sun will come out in 5 minutes, but it never does. Here is a deleted scene that captures that feel, IMO.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:37 pm to Hugh McElroy
So were first in a category?
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:38 pm to Hugh McElroy
Louisiana should be a smaller version of Texas in my opinion. With all the oil and natural gas in this state, we should have a really good economy and should be a wealthy state. It drives me crazy at how much of a failure of a state Louisiana is. The culcha and corrupt politicians have ruined this state
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:39 pm to lsufball19
Took a quick look at 2017 homicides. Red circle is around Baton Rouge and blue is around South Baton Rouge... LSU is in S Baton Rouge and is the portion of town that most would consider to be very safe.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:43 pm to sta4ever
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Louisiana should be a smaller version of Texas in my opinion. With all the oil and natural gas in this state, we should have a really good economy and should be a wealthy state. It drives me crazy at how much of a failure of a state Louisiana is. The culcha and corrupt politicians have ruined this state
This culcha you speak of, at least in the oilfield, is a bunch of Boudreauxs on the take, setting up small mom and pop shops and getting ridiculous contracts. The hedge funds and PE that came in for the frac boom were absolutely blown away at all the “well to do” people in the Shreveport area that were on the take. They pretty much universally operate out of Kilgore/Longview/Tyler now. Luckily for all the coon asses, Halliburton spilled a bunch of chemicals in East Texas a while back, so they are pretty firmly entrenched in Bossier.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:45 pm to SouthOfSouth
Gardere is pretty dangerous and LSU borders the bottom so it really isn’t that safe around LSU and even at LSU
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:51 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Louisiana is essentially a failed state at this point. Corruption at every level, horrible taxes, and they are broke. Good people in Louisiana that have had nothing to do with this, but it's no surprise the LSU AD has no money at this point.
You left out the biggest transgression, hiring O
Posted on 3/8/18 at 12:52 pm to Hugh McElroy
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How is it possible to frick things up as badly as they have?
It's a perfect gumbo of French socialism, haitian voodoo, and fetishism. Stir in loose morals and there ya go.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:03 pm to Hugh McElroy
Baton Rouge also has the distinction of probably being one of the biggest SEC cities. Off the top of my head, I bet that only Nashville is bigger and maybe Knoxville is comparable in size? Even without that in Baton Rouge's defense, the place is still kind of a shithole though. Even some of the neighborhoods around LSU are pretty sketchy.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:07 pm to texag7
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This is their bar scene. Just look at this
Tigerland is pretty trashy, but I've never known college kids to frequent nice bars with expensive drinks. Fred's is fairly nice though.
Downtown BR has more bars and wider mix from dives to upscale.
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Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:11 pm to SouthOfSouth
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Took a quick look at 2017 homicides. Red circle is around Baton Rouge and blue is around South Baton Rouge... LSU is in S Baton Rouge and is the portion of town that most would consider to be very safe.
We always hear this about Baton Rouge, but doesn't every city have it's good and bad side?
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:13 pm to TeLeFaWx
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people in Louisiana that have had nothing to do with this
They vote, don't they?
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:14 pm to Hugh McElroy
People look at this and think, "Wow, Fayetteville must be a wonderful and virtually crime free place to live!" Folks like me, who used to live in Fayetteville, are thinking "My God, we've gone to the dogs!"
For a loooong time the city has had a serious crime rate that was more of rounding error then anything. It's taken an uptick in recent years. The danger of being in a boom economy for 30+ years.
For a loooong time the city has had a serious crime rate that was more of rounding error then anything. It's taken an uptick in recent years. The danger of being in a boom economy for 30+ years.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:15 pm to Hugh McElroy
The most athletic and explosive city is the most dangerous city? youdontsay.png
Posted on 3/8/18 at 1:16 pm to TrueTiger
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They vote, don't they?
Good point.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 3:15 pm to lsufball19
The fact of the matter is that most actual cities are pretty similar. They have good neighborhoods and bad, some really nice suburbs and some not as nice.
It's funny how much a city's reputation seems to affect peoples' perspective. Cities like Nashville and Austin aren't as amazing as they are made out to be and cities like Memphis and Baton Rouge aren't as terrible or dangerous as some people would make you think.
It's funny how much a city's reputation seems to affect peoples' perspective. Cities like Nashville and Austin aren't as amazing as they are made out to be and cities like Memphis and Baton Rouge aren't as terrible or dangerous as some people would make you think.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 3:29 pm to GetCocky11
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Probably just b/c cities are typically more violent than smaller towns.
It's the rate that's the problem. But, while I haven't been there in years, I suspect it's still true that the area around the college is substantially nicer and safer than the rest of the city. Making that a talking point about LSU is no different from saying NYU is a dangerous place because the rest of the city can be dangerous (though it's a lot safer nowadays than it used to be back in the day.)
Posted on 3/8/18 at 3:30 pm to Hugh McElroy
Damn. BR needs to get their shite together
Posted on 3/8/18 at 3:31 pm to UAtide11
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Cities like Nashville and Austin aren't as amazing as they are made out to be
Nashville is pretty amazing. I'm not 'loyal' to it or anything -- I'm from the southern Delta and just attended the university. But, yeah, it has neighborhoods I wouldn't go to on a dare. For a bigger city, though, it's pretty damned nice.
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