[jlsch1]

BRPD which we pay alot of taxes for poor police protection and duplication of sheriff and BR kiddy police or mayor thugs squad.
99% are not from Baton Rouge and are scared to protect us.
I worked for a dept in California at one time and went into worse areas and actually did my job. We had TV reporters on our butts all day and night.
Yes, I had to live in the City I worked or I didn't have a job. I was apart of the community unlike City Police.
Guess what we couldn't take our cars home unlike city police some driving up to 50 miles away round trip to and from work on my tax dollar.

I had one guy knocked out high as a kite 5 ft from my parents back door.
I drove from Lafayette to Baton Rouge and got there before the Baton Rouge Kiddy Police. Then the one officer could not get him up and asked for backup which still were scared to get the guy up.
In California we would have got him up in less than 5 seconds one way or the other or would have been fired.
They did not do anything they let him go.
If it was their house I bet they would have done more than that, but they don't live here so why care.

They are too easy on thugs and this is the problem you have and a dept not trained as well as the California depts which have been dealing with gangs since 1980's and not scared to call them gangs. We called them gangs black, white biker gangs, Latinos, and Asian groups. We went after gangs, we gave them hell, and they left our area due to they got tired of us giving them hell which was our job. They want to hide the fact we have a gang problem in Baton Rouge. I had a supervisor tell me if it is a group of thugs that act like a gang, cause problems like a gang, guess what they are a gang.

This is the joke of a police department we got and I have a right to say that due to I live here and pay taxes for bad service.
Rather protect our mayor outside city limits than protect citizens inside the city limits.
They rather hide crimes than report them due to it scares people from coming to Baton Rouge and businesses from coming to Baton Rouge.
If it is not downtown you can give up having good police service.
Even Broadmoore pays extra taxes for police and they cannot solve rash of break in that is a double sucker punch for those citizens being taxed twice for poor service.

I do give EMS and Fire Dept thumbs up they work their butts off. I will always vote for a tax increase for those guys especially when they come to my street to give a crackhead a shot due to they thought they were bit by a snake when it was a spider. Guess what the day before they were at the same location picking up the same person for a drug over dose. Yes, I think EMS and fire dept do their job. City Police no I think they are for themselves and making the Police Union.

Baton Rouge Police can go and we can have one dept which is the Sheriff dept which saves money, fire poor officers instead of having civil service hearing, and stop duplication of services putting more officers on the street.