. Because if you say there are "Gangs" your a racist and it looks bad for BR. I have a DVD called Thuging it and loving it, all about the gangs and drug money in BR.
Study says 30 street gangs with more than 500 members at large in Baton Rouge
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gabesurface
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Wow - I didn't realize this was news in my hometown of Columbus, IN (the newspaper from the link posted).
Having lived here for the last 5 years and taught in the high poverty neighborhoods where most of the videos people on here have posted are from, I never really called what we have gangs - I always called them "neighborhood alliances". The truth of the matter is, who cares what you call them - BR has a serious crime problem - something my hometown obviously doesn't have since they have to report on ours, haha.
Having lived here for the last 5 years and taught in the high poverty neighborhoods where most of the videos people on here have posted are from, I never really called what we have gangs - I always called them "neighborhood alliances". The truth of the matter is, who cares what you call them - BR has a serious crime problem - something my hometown obviously doesn't have since they have to report on ours, haha.
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I am glad IBM chose to come to Baton Rouge. However, news like this is not helping BR attract fortune 500 companies. These people are a drain on our community. I wish the police would get serious and make the Greater Baton Rouge Area so unbearable they move elsewhere. Like Chicago.
Careful what you say. That might, since gangs often engage heavily in the drug trade, inadvertantly get the police involved in "The War on Drugs," which according to many people, even on this site, is a hugely unjust waste of time that targets innocent, God-fearing, organic herbal healers and makes them ground-up victims of the oppressive government machine. Oh, wait, did you mean "those" drug users/dealers? The ones from "certain neighborhoods" of "certain demographics" that are OK for police to harass because they, you know, "look" or "sound" different?
All sarcasm aside, this kind of thing goes in cycles for police. Politicians, in response to one constituency, want to be seen as "doing something about crime," so the pressure is put on police to "clean up the problem." After a term of police using the most effective tactics they can to "clean up the problem" where it is found and rooted deeply, other politicians responding to that constituency loudly cry foul with allegations of brutality/corruption/harassment and demand "something be done about the police." It's a fairly rough brushing of the topic, and I by no means defend or condone racism, corruption, brutality, or infringement of civil rights, it mostly comes down to standing back and looking at how absurd it is when we quake in fear over buzzwords like "profiling" or "racist" to the point that we stare at the problem right in front of us but do absolutely nothing about it.
My comments are directed more to the people committing violence and murder on citizens in their own community. Not peaceful herb farmers. As to racism ferret the bad actors out without respect to color. My point is to try to contain this element or they will blight the city.
Scott.Thornton
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I remember the time I heard some tool from one of the nat'l talk shows discussing the murder rate in Louisiana- and uttering in so many words that 'those crazy ragin' Cajuns down there are killing one another.' 
Now there's someone who clearly did some hard-nosed research on this subject.
Now there's someone who clearly did some hard-nosed research on this subject.
Might be time to "Play Cowboys and Thugs"!
