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Saturday, February 21, 2004
Via Rosenblog comes this assessment of Atlanta, and its attempts at self-portrayal for its bid to host the 1996 Olympics:
Police reports were deep-sixed or permanently misplaced, including at least 22,000 in 2002. An estimated 4,281 of those would have been violent offenses.
Even with years of underreporting, the city was ranked first or second in violent crimes for nine out of the last 10 years, according to FBI data. Atlanta has avoided the overt racial tensions of cities such as Los angeles and New York in recent decades. But officials say it's drugs that have been fueling violent street crime. Not exactly the picture of this progressive Southern city many folks had.
After living in Cobb County for a few months, travelling into Midtown, Five Points, etc. and witnessing the mass exodus of urbanites into places like Alpharetta, I can affirm this assessment. Atlanta and "crime free" cannot be uttered in the same sentence without spraying my soda through my nose.Labels: Archives_2004
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Dave
8:26 PM
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