Comments on: Atlanta: America’s ’second least safe city?’

By: Loyal ATLien

Loyal ATLien — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:39:55 +0000

I feel these statistics are highly skewed. They blatantly said that they based the calculations on city crime with city population. We all know there are more people in Atlanta at all times of the day that do not live in Atlanta. The city has a pop of 500k, of course the crime rate is going to look high when the 5 million in the metro go there or are linked there for some type of criminal activity.

Basically, to get a proper trpresentation of crime in “Atlanta,” one would need to evaluate the crime on a metro basis. Think about why New York was so high on their list. I’m not disputing that it is safe there, but enormous population in the actual municipality of New York City dwarfs the crime rate. Whereas in Atlanta, less than a tenth of the residents live there.

Think About It!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:40:17 +0000

Interesting thing about Memphis and Atlanta is they both dismantled concentrated areas of public housing and spread Section 8 recepients throught the city and metro area, and crime followed those Section 8 people and increased in the areas they relocated to.

By: Dash Riptide

Dash Riptide — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:39:01 +0000

The next mayor should install more flagpoles on Boulevard. More flags, more fun! Am I right? I said, am I right?

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:19:21 +0000

the next mayor should seriously consider turning the worst neighborhoods in this city into mini police states

By: Joeventures

Joeventures — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:43:58 +0000

It’s worse here than in Detroit? Even Gary, IN? That’s depressing.