Comments on: Mayor’s rebuttal of Atlanta crime-rankings misleading and incomplete

By: Turner

Turner — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:25:13 +0000

lizzie you are obviously buying whatever the mayor or the AJC is sellin but it is not the case.

Look at every county in the metro area and find one that has balanced their books with anything close to a 44% rate hike.

On top of that the Mayor’s budget is trying to close a 58 million dollar gap in the budget of which only $18 million are the public safety furloughs.

How did this City grow by 25% in the last 8 years without increasing property tax revenue whatsoever, inflation adjusted or otherwise?

The Police have seen a freeze on their step pay and have seen their salaries decrease by 40% in that time.

We have less cops then when she started and not only that we are paying them almost half as much. And on top of that we are now finding out the administration is fighting claims of 20 year disabled veterans.

Expanding by 200 positions isn’t going to do us a bit of good if this city is so horrible to work for that nobody in their right mind would sign up for it.

More than the Mayor are to blame but everybody else has at least acknowledged that there is a problem. The Czar of Safety remains silent, the Ethics board somehow has blinders on when it comes to the Mayor.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:31:45 +0000

Tag Free, I wish you Norwood for Mayor.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:30:36 +0000

Franklin acknowledges crime is a problem which is why she has pushed to hire more officers than ever employed by the city by 200 hundred or so, increased their pay and tried to avoid the layoffs with the tax increase last year… Oh no, the Council and media said there is no recession on the horizon. Then Wall Street crashed in September (what is it about bad news in Septmeber?)and the media and lots of you have collective amnesia…

By: Tag free world

Tag free world — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:48:01 +0000

she needs the baseball bat to ring her bell so she can see what is real and what isnt real . She is dumb as a door knob .

By: keith

keith — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:33:08 +0000

Frankly,

I understand your point. The exaggeration had to do with the other commenter’s specific example. Just as Shirley should tell the truth and not make statements that are false, misleading and flippant, those of us “on the other side of the issue” should do likewise as to not lose credibility like the mayor has.

However, other than at 2 in the morning, I don’t feel that talking a walk down the street in my neighborhood (Inman Pk/Candler Pk area) is taking my life in my hands.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:49:44 +0000

keith
It is not an exaggeration when your mayor will not even acknowledge that there is a crime problem. It is not an exaggeration when a simple walk down the street in our neighborhoods is taking our life into our hands.

This is unacceptable and Franklin has obliterated any respect I had for her with her stance on crime in the city and continuing to furlough police.

By: keith

keith — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:11:28 +0000

Blake,

I hate to say it but exaggeration of the issue does not help anything either. I have the Candler Park newsletter and, yes there were 5 armed pedestrian robberies last month, but “scores” of the other crimes? Let’s be honest. The newsletter had a total of 24 incidents including the 5 robberies (and a couple of them listed are outside of Candler Park) – that is hardly “scores” considering the definition of that word is a count of 20.

Yes, we have a problem. But exaggeration and distortion of it by concerned people and anti-crime groups is as bad as exaggeration and distortion by the mayor.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:06:21 +0000

If Mayor Franklin disputes a crime problem in this city, she should take the time to read the Candler Park news letter for May 2009. There were no fewer than five armed robberies of pedestrians reported to police. Not to mention the scores of burglaries, auto thefts, larcenies and unending reports of smash ‘n grab incidents. Yet city hall is silent; November elections cannot come soon enough.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:51:54 +0000

Shirley is trying to salvage her image. She is angling to land a nice 6 figure job with one of the bid developers like Coulsins Properties when she leaves office. I live in East Atlanta and the inner city thugs affect every aspect of my daily life. I can’t just leave the house , I have check out the street to see if any are out there casing my house first. I could never take an evening walk alone after dark. I would become a crime victim quickly. I now own a gun for the first time in my life and intend to use it if anyone is stupid enough to kick in my door while I’m there.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:44:34 +0000

People, get a grip of yourselves. Crime has been on a steady rise in this city, and the city is incapable of doing anything about it. By city, I mean the jurisdiction that is incorporated as Atlanta, and not the geographic region. I live in Atlanta proper, and if I am a victim of crime, I expect the Atlanta Police Department to respond. Not Sandy Springs, Norcross, College Park, etc.

The FBI’s statistics might be useful for one thing right now. It gets us talking about this problem, and we should hold the Mayor and the City Council of Atlanta accountable.