Public Safety Campaign 2022

Enough is Enough! 

Together Baton Rouge is hosting a city-wide, public safety house meeting campaign around violence.

East Baton Rouge parish has seen back-to-back years with record-breaking murder rates.  In 2020, Baton Rouge saw 114 murders, followed by 149 murders in 2021. Both years were up significantly from the year 2019, which had 89.  So far in 2022, there have been 45 murders (4/25 EBR Coroner’s office).  EBR Parish is not unique in this trend as violence is reported to be up 30% throughout the country (Time Magazine).

Baton Rouge families don’t have to read the paper to know the impact of these realities, but they have yet to be at the center of finding solutions.  The Enough is Enough: Public Safety House Meeting Campaign's purpose is to engage the community in order to listen to the stories about how violence has impacted their families and to identify solutions that we can organize around.  It is time for us to make a stand! Join us and be a part of the solution!

Regional Meeting Times and Dates:

MID-CITY/GREENVILLE EXTENSION/EDEN PARK-PUBLIC SAFETY CLERGY MEETING

Details coming soon

 

SOUTH/ SOUTH EAST REGIONAL COMMUNITY MEETING

August 23rd @6:00 PM

St. Margaret's Episcopal School

RSVP Here: togetherbr.org/august23_community

 

OLD SOUTH/ DOWNTOWN/LSU REGIONAL COMMUNITY MEETING

September 1st @6:00 PM

Together Baton Rouge Office

RSVP Here: togetherbr.org/september1_community

 

NORTH BR REGIONAL COMMUNITY MEETING

Community event will be announced soon!

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  • Phillip Beard
    commented 2022-04-25 09:09:55 -0500
    Banning dangerous automatic military guns is viable. It works. In the years that machine gins were banned the murder rate went down. Countries like Australia, New Zealand, England, and Japan all have sensible gun restrictions.. These cities are much safer than North Baton Rouge, and the French Quarter. Bans work. Crooked politicians and the NRA are the main obstacles to change this unholy, obscene death toll .
  • Mary Thomas
    published this page 2022-04-15 14:59:04 -0500

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