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re: Tuscaloosa ranked second most dangerous college town in America
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:01 pm to GoGators1995
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:01 pm to GoGators1995
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The SEC city with the highest violent crime rate is actually Nashville. That's really disappointing.
Well when you take into account the absolute arse beating that Vandy put on Bama last year, it actually makes sense using updated statistics.
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:02 pm to ThePoo
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Baton Rouge isn’t a college town
I make this same comparison when people bring up Tuscaloosa — you can spend years at Alabama and never step foot in the areas in question.
Not sure why people are so eager to directly correlate crime on a university campus with that of the fifth-largest city in Alabama as a whole.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:03 pm to cajunbama
Monroe (home of ULM) has a violent crime rate of 20.96 per 1k. 
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:03 pm to ThePoo
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Baton Rouge isn’t a college town
Which applies to the rest of the SEC.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:06 pm to HogPharmer
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the absolute arse beating that Vandy put on Bama last year
When Pavia was healthy, Vandy also beat Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Auburn, and Georgia Tech (who played Georgia to 8 OTs).
There were probably some couches burned in The Gulch.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:31 pm to GeauxBreauxs
Why is a criminal defense firm in Salt Lake City posting a list of most dangerous cities? And why is a SECRant poster referencing it?
This is proof that anyone can post anything on the internet and someone will run with it.
This is proof that anyone can post anything on the internet and someone will run with it.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:35 pm to ThePoo
its crazy how people from Alabama say Birmingham is God's country and the greatest city in America. One guy I know say its the prettiest city in the country
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:38 pm to TT9
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Lacy says hello, so heartbroken he isn't around anymore. Eh
Vintage TT9, football season really is right around the corner
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:38 pm to WG_Dawg
quote:I live in Tuscaloosa, and the areas around the stadium and the Strip have been gentrified to hell and back over the past fifteen years. It's basically stacks upon stacks of "luxury student housing" towers.
Leaving the stadium last fall after our game, I was shocked at the demographics around the strip and pretty much everywhere surroudning the general vicinity of the stadium. The last game I'd gone to in Ttown prior to that was 2020 which I suppose is an outlier, and it was 2011 before that. Things have definitely changed.
The games, like SEC games everywhere, have become so expensive to attend that lower income people basically can't go to them anymore. The crowds are wealthier than they've ever been in the history of college football.
Where in the heck did you go that you were "shocked by the demographics?"
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:39 pm to GeauxBreauxs
I’m assuming Baton Rouge was #1
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:43 pm to GeauxBreauxs
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Much of the risk is tied to areas with heavy nightlife activity
Yeah, no shite. That is pretty much the case in every college town.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:44 pm to dallastiger55
I literally know not a single person who says Birmingham is the greatest city in the country. Not one.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:46 pm to GeauxBreauxs
A Salt Lake City firm of defense attorneys that list 20 lawyers on staff.
OK....
OK....
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:49 pm to Chuck Barris
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The crowds are wealthier than they've ever been in the history of college football.
Where in the heck did you go that you were "shocked by the demographics?"
He didn't.
Condos directly across the street from the stadium sell for $2 million.
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And this is on the opposite side.
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:33 pm to paperwasp
Tuscaloosa is a shithole
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:51 pm to GoGators1995
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Violent Crime Rate (s)
Baton Rouge 10.11
Gainesville 7.52
Tuscaloosa 5.84
One of these is so bad that a significant portion of the city recently seceded
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:58 pm to GeauxBreauxs
And that’s while they’ve been good. Gonna get a lot worse now that they can’t play defense.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:34 pm to Whitey83
Memphis is the new Chicago.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:36 pm to GeauxBreauxs
Maaaaan. Im a Baton Rouge kid, grew up on the corner of East Brookstown and St. Gerard. We moved in 1986. You really have to try to be more dangerous than Baton Rouge.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:40 pm to GeauxBreauxs
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"Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama, ranks second with 149 crimes per 10,000 residents. Much of the risk is tied to areas with heavy nightlife activity, where alcohol-related incidents and thefts are more common," the article states. "The city's mix of student renters and visiting sports fans can also create conditions for opportunistic crime."
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