BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A Louisiana state lawmaker plans to convene a hearing following an investigation into crime districts across the capital city.
Crime districts are designed to enhance security in certain neighborhoods where homeowners pay extra taxes for that service.
The WAFB I-TEAM uncovered that despite people being taxed twice, thousands of crimes were still logged across the city’s 27 crime districts. It comes after the I-TEAM analyzed nearly 200,000 reported crimes in the City of Baton Rouge…