Jackson Jambalaya

Jackson is a little Detroit

Detroit is on the way up. The best description of Jackson: if Cabrini-Green were a city, it'd be Jackson. I'm listening to the loud roar of street racing around Fondren as I type.

@8:08 Have you thought about calling Capitol Police?

" Moore advised detectives he was asleep in his home when he heard gunshots and discovered he was wounded. Moore received multiple gunshot wounds. He stated he did not know why anyone would be shooting into his home".

BULL SHIT.

He knew the shooters and he knew why they were assassinating him 20 minutes shy of 3:AM.

He was following the "no snitch" honor code.

I'm surprised the guy was even able to give a statement after being shot multiple times.

Have you thought about moving to Madison?

Is our new police chief still going on a neighborhood photo op tour yet or is she actually working. I hope she knows or soon will learn that ppl consider the capitol police the only real police force in city of Jackson.

@7:19
lol. Detroit and Jackson aren’t much alike. Detroit had multi billionaire Dan Gilbert owner of Rocket morgage and Cleveland caviliers as a big investor pouring millions into it. Motor city casino owner and domino pizza founder doing same and so is owners of Little ceasers
Get serious before saying stupid things!! Or maybe travel first

She doesn't even wear a six-shooter.

This obviously occurred because businesses keep leaving Jackson.

Was a nerve touched just a little? For decades, Detroit was seen as a collapsing shithole of a city. It was (and still may be) the paradigm of what a crumbling infrastructure looks like, albeit on a much larger scale than Jackson. So @7:19 is not wrong, even if Detroit may be getting funding now. That said, I think the lawlessness in Jackson is more akin to a mini-Memphis, or even Mogadishu or Johannesburg.

Are we sure it's only 22 . It seems like new murders "homicides" make the news every other day in Jackson . Who keeps the tally book ?

WLBT does: https://www.wlbt.com/news/crime/jackson-homicides/

If comments on here weren't anonymous you wouldn't have posted your lies.

@9:09 WLBT tracks them independently down to the street and victim. They are on top of it.

6:26AM, She was the Grand Marshall at the South Jackson pride parade Saturday. The community needed something positive as the parade rolled down McDowell rd past burned and abandoned houses and boarded up businesses. No signs of civilized life anymore on what used to be a main artery of South JXN.

The pride was evident with garbage on the streets and junked cars in yards.

Why Madison...surrounded by Ridgeland and Canton/Gluckstadt. All good things will end soon. Just ask Ridgeland.

The City of Detroit, the Detroit Metro, and all of the suburbs of Metro Detroit are better than anything in Mississippi. Jackson is more comparable to maybe Flint, Michigan. Flint, Michigan is the exception. It’s very Mississippi-esque.

Or Gary, Indiana.

@11:59 Define “better”? They certainly have a whole lot more people and obviously a larger economy. But last I checked no one is moving to Detroit in droves. Very apples to oranges comparison to try and compare a large major city to a little bitty one. We are just fine here in little bitty Mississippi and the Jackson area has all you could actually need in life. It may not be a tourist’s destination but all the luxury a human could actually need is here, and better food.

Plus, one of the murders was imputed on an accomplice of robbery. The 15-year-old was killed by the homeowner during the robbery and the fellow robber was charged with capital murder. I think at the Inverness apartments

@12:53 Sounds like your typical Mississippian who has never been anywhere and doesn’t know any better.

@1:52pm It's funny you should say that. I have been to all 50 states, almost every national park, and vacation all over. I choose to stay right here in little bitty Mississippi. Would not change a thing.

From the crime perspective, a comparison to Kansas City KS may be more appropriate than anything in Michigan.

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