New blight numbers show a correlation to crime

BATON ROUGE- New numbers paint a disturbing picture of how blighted properties have a correlation to crimes occurring in East Baton Rouge Parish.
The numbers obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit show there are 7,963 blighted properties in East Baton Rouge Parish. In 70802, there were 753 violent crimes. In 70805, there were 943 violent crimes. Almost half of all of the violent crimes in those zip codes occurred within 100 feet of a blighted property, according to the numbers.In Old South Bat