Posted on 03/30/2021 1:59:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Simply unacceptable. That is what a local developer is saying about Atlanta’s rise in crime.
Fulton County’s district attorney said the homicide rate alone jumped 39% last year in the county compared to 2019.
Since last summer, Atlanta police, the mayor’s office and the City Council have all been working together, trying to find ways to reduce crime.
But a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, crime is still a major problem.
Now, a downtown developer said he has had enough.
Channel 2′s Michael Seiden learned that the developer’s storefront is boarded up because someone broke his windows.
Tom Aderhold of Aderhold Properties said he lost business, and his employees do not feel safe. So over the weekend, he wrote a letter to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
“As a significant landowner and taxpayer in the city of Atlanta, this level of incivility is simply unacceptable,” he wrote.
On Monday, Seiden stopped by one of Aderhold’s buildings at 56 Peachtree Street to check out some of the damage left behind after Aderhold said a homeless person used rocks to shatter the storefront.
“One of our female leasing agents has asked not to be sent to our Muses property again due to the amount of verbal abuse she suffers walking from her car to the office,” Aderhold wrote.
He also described the growing homeless population at Woodruff Park, saying that there’s been a significant “increase in tent camping.”
He also accused some of the men of “using the streets and sidewalks as a bathroom with impunity and harassing anyone within range.”
Aderhold sent the letter at a time when there is currently $1.6 billion in investment underway downtown, according to Central Atlanta Progress, a downtown business association.
Seiden contacted the mayor’s office for comment on this story, but it declined.
In January, Bottoms released the One Atlanta: One APD Immediate Action Plan to address crime and the systemic issues that lead to violence.
As part of her plan, the mayor laid out seven immediate actions, including expanding enforcement of nuisance properties, as well as focusing on additional resources and increasing targeted enforcement on gangs and gun violence.
But Aderhold wants more.
“We need an immediately improved response that gets to the heart of these socioeconomic, public health and safety issues. We can do better, and we must do better,” he wrote.
What a racist.
Shut up and build.
Whether tenants will actually lease your property is your problem.
The government built it.
I would never live in one of the Dem/Marxist governed cities. Their absolute mismanagement is a proven deadly threat to all residents.
Investigator positions in federal public defender offices can pay quite well. The Atlanta Federal Public Defender's Office has had two positions opened for the better part of a year, and it seems they've been struggling to fill them.
I’m not from Atlanta, but I was curious about the “Muses Property” which the female employee now refuses to visit.
It appears to be a Loft/Apartment development, located at
50 Peachtree Street NW,
Atlanta, GA 30303
Curious what’s wrong with that area? Too many homeless/addicts?
If only Atlanta could elect more Democrats.
Miss Keisha “big” Bottoms may want to consider disarming the po po. That seems to be the magic BLM way to eliminate all crime.
What~!?? They were all supposed to just accept it, with a smile. After all, this is so representative of the new spirit of the Woke, blind obedience to Democrat idiocy and corruption. What is wrong with these people?
“Too many homeless/addicts?”
Yes, and too many hoodlum types roaming around and shooting each other periodically. Georgia State University is a downtown university and students get mugged and carjacked regularly. The Georgia Tech students in Midtown do as well.
Black Criminal Careers Matter
If you have a boil on your buttocks, call Lance Bottoms.
Has anyone realized that the social construct has completely broken down?
This is when you are trapped. You have invested heavily in a city and it goes to the dogs almost overnight. There’s no way out, current income is low or nothing, and the bills just keep coming.
Lance’s partner’s name is Semoure Butts.
>>Since last summer, Atlanta police, the mayor’s office and the City Council have all been working together, trying to find ways to reduce crime.<<
Without using police nor using race when identifying non-white suspects.
I am willing to bet the DA has established a revolving door or no bar at all for non-white criminals like in so many blue cities.
I think you really meant she needs to hire more social workers for this burgeoning crime.
Developer sends letter to Atlanta mayor saying spike in city’s crime is ‘simply unacceptable’
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How can this be permissible
They compromise my principle, yeah yeah
This kind of crime is mythical
It’s anything but typical
It’s a craze nobody endorsed, it’s a powerful force
You’re obliged to conform when there’s no other course
The city used to look good to me, but now I find it
Simply unacceptable
(with apologies to Robert Palmer)
I used to work ~6 blocks from there. Ok for long walks at lunch, but not somewhere I’d want to be at night on a regular basis. You might remember BLM et al attacking CNN last year - that’s the area.
Muse's was a local chain of menswear stores. The original was the downtown location. I think they had one in Lennox Square, as well. If you needed a nice suit, you went there, or to Rich's (a full fledged department store chain). Davidson's (an operating front for Macy's) would have been the other department store option. And I think there was another reasonably high end men's store.
very NICE!
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