r/shreveport

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/meta-10-billion-louisiana-data-173631860.html

https://www.ktbs.com/news/local/humor-harmony-festival-canceled-for-2026-as-50-cent-focuses-on-studio-renovations/article\_927b7310-0b65-424a-bddb-9c97baa0c314.html

There is a quickly rising voice for increased recruitment numbers of police officers coming from Shreveport City Leaders. The reasons that have been vocalized in public forums by City Leaders for a need in the increase in police officers focus on Shreveport's high crime rate, but do not attempt to describe any alternative reason as to why a significant number of more police officers will be needed in the following years.

This push for a higher amount of local police officers comes right after 50 Cent's 99 year lease for a considerable chunk of Downtown Shreveport was approved. A 99 year lease for a performer that had 1, singular, festival in Shreveport and continues to cancel the Humor & Harmony Festival every year since.

While it seems targeted to focus on 50 Cent's downtown plans as the cause for more police, 50 Cent himself is who requires it. He hired multiple private security companies for the 1 Humor & Harmony festival that did occur, and even then, the State Police had to be brought in to the City of Shreveport in order to ensure the festival continued smoothly.

It makes sense for Shrevport to want to secure their 99 year long investment, but will this come at a cost to local residents? Dramatic increases in policing in city centers, typically, have an opposing effect to crime rates. Making them rise dramatically. Ultimately, coming in the form of over-policing: like the recent laws allowing the Shreveport Police to exercise their legal liberties to ticket cars that are parked on private properties if they aren't parked correctly, for example.

And realistically, why should we believe that City Leaders are becoming altruistic about crime rates all of a sudden? They pushed both the AI Data Centers and 50 Cent's 99 year lease through multiple rounds of disapproval by the city's citizens, until they were able to finally achieve internal approval amongst themselves. Multi-generational deals are being made at the City level that are removing huge swaths of possible tax revenue for the city, that further reduce the amount of tax budget that can be used for improvements like increasing the number of police officers.

Community health is at an all-time low. Shaming the City of Shreveport's citizens about the high crime rate instead of funding community support programs that will actively lower the high crime rate, is a major misstep by our City Leaders.

Do better.

Pretty good deal if your family is anything like mine

Just in time for pride month, Robinson Film Center is showing Bound for June's Friday Night Freakout. Catch this cult classic on June 5th at 8 PM, with some in house trivia before the film. We hope to see you there!

Just curious if anybody else recognizes this says it's a house in the article where a couple people were murdered at the penal farm but the building to me resembles these small jail that's in the front of the bigger funeral farm here. Just curious if they transformed it into the female jail later or if it's a different building on the property

El patio over el Cabo?? And TEXAS ROADHOUSE over superior’s steakhouse for best steaks??

Because I feel I don't normally have a good grasp of what I am voting on when I am in the booth seeing this for the first time, because these are normally worded in such a way that you need a law degree to decipher them. Let's figure out what's what.

Here are the sample ballots for the three parties, if you are registered for Dem/Repub you must use that ticket when you vote, if you are unaffiliated you can choose to vote in the primaries for one or the other but not both.

Along with the primaries there are five amendment/referendums. CA No. 1-5

Personally, I could use some insight of CA's 1,2, and 4. 3 and 5 are fairly easy to understand.

Thoughts and opinions?