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It appears a lot of the trash from New Orleans ended up in Baton Rouge as a result of Katrina .
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Baton Rouge’s homicide rate exceeds the rates in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. — a reality experts partially blame on a population that became more violent after Hurricane Katrina.
Experts say poverty, lack of education and the breakdown of the family have contributed to the city’s increased violence but point to Hurricane Katrina as the tipping point at which Baton Rouge joined a handful of other cities struggling with exceedingly high homicide rates.
At the rate dat da killas are killin' other killas,
you'd think we'd run out at some point.
The good news is that if you ain't involved in the
drug trade, yer chances of gettin' killed are low.
New York and LA are the two largest cities in the country. They each have hundreds of murders every year and because of their high populations, the murder rate is low. The article seems slanted rather than objective.
I used to live in BR. It's always been a violent city; Katrina has nothing to do with it, except that it added more population. Metro BTR went from a community of about 650,000 to a city of almost 900,000 within the span of a few months. Any city would have adjustments to make.
What a load of horse manure. BR has always been a violent place with drugs in every neighborhood. I've actually sat and watched drugs being sold in the middle of the street numerous times.
In any case, the worst batch of criminals in Baton Rouge are found in that big, tall building over there by the river.
Simply put, another good reason to move to Kennesaw Georgia, where the law is that all heads of households are to be armed, (unless certain other criteria is met such as not being able to own a gun, etc), where they have one of the LOWEST violent crime rates in the U.S. and has been ranked one of the top 10 places to live.
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In 1982, the Kennesaw City Council unanimously passed a law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm with ammunition.
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