Posted on 03/11/2021 8:08:26 AM PST by karpov
ATLANTA—Lauren LeNoir had always felt safe on her quiet street in Buckhead, the city’s wealthiest neighborhood, known for its upscale malls and mansions. But that all changed when she was coming home from work one night in January.
The 43-year-old restaurant general manager pulled into her driveway. In an instant, she said, two men were at her car door. One man threw her to the ground, pressed a gun to her head and threatened to blow her head off. In the end, they took off with her purse and cellphone.
“He had no regard for my life,” she said. “They’ve stolen something that I cannot get back, and that is my sense of security.”
Violent crime has been on the rise in many parts of Atlanta since last summer, not just Buckhead. From Jan. 1 to Feb. 20, there were 18 homicides in Atlanta, up 80% compared with the same period last year, according to the Atlanta Police Department. Shooting incidents were up 32% for the same period; robberies, 17%; and aggravated assaults, 47%.
In the police zone that includes Buckhead, robberies were up 40% from the same period last year and aggravated assaults rose 35%. In the police zone that includes the downtown area, aggravated assaults rose 24% and auto thefts rose more than 200%, compared with the same period last year.
Many major U.S. cities experienced increases in homicides, aggravated assaults and gun-related crimes in 2020, according to a report funded in part by the Council on Criminal Justice, a think tank. Of the 34 cities in the report, 29 saw annual increases in homicides, including Atlanta with 38%, New York City with 43% and Chicago with 55%.
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Heh. We left the Seattle suburbs for Rural Kentucky ten years ago. LOVE it!
Lauren LeNoir had always felt safe on her quiet street in Buckhead...
Get a gun.
If Ms. LeNoir thinks it’s bad now, just wait until Biden’s open borders policy kicks in.
Well, the answer to this problem is obvious!
Get rid of a Law & Order President, install an Alzheimer’s Patient, and continue to de-fund the police!
*SMIRK*
I guess what they are saying is that crime has went up 80% since Biden took office. That does not even include stealing elections.
This is a perfect opportunity for Atlanta to release its army of social workers to show the world how they alone can reduce the crime rate, including murder rate.
Do It, Atlanta, Do It Now. Show us how it’s done in the city that’s “too busy to hate.”
You don’t need police, Atlanta, you need more social workers.
"Men," huh?
Well, that reduces the number of suspects by about half, right?
Regards,
Lenoir has a Twitter where she supports BLM and roasts Trump.
She needs to stay exactly where she’s at.
I think people don’t need to worry, they’ll soon-enough be coming to the suburbs to impose their Fascism, and then to the countryside.
There is NO WAY they’re going to exempt any of us.
American cities have been dangerous zombie zones for decades.
Wealthy areas in those cities are just targets waiting to be over-run.
Mostly liberals live in those areas because they are totally unable to fathom the concept of risk and future planning.
(I grew up in an inner suburb in the 1960s—when the first housewife got raped by a visitor from the “hood” back then, that was all I ever needed to know. That would _never_ happen to my future wife—so we live _way_ out in the sticks.)
Don’t get too secure. One of bammy’s initiatives was to bring inner city people to the suburbs to equalize the misery, the crime, the murders and the thefts. After all, why shouldn’t those Whiteys be subject to the same problems as inner city people?
Buckhead taxes pay the rent for everyone else in Fulton County.
She was already to stupid to know that every day was rape.
Don’t they have Social Workers in Atlanta?
The reporting of this crime is racist, therefore it did not happen.
Obviously the police hasn’t been defunded enough in Atlanta yet
Must have been those Norwegian Lutherans at it again!
I hate to tell the WSJ, but metro Atlanta crime takes place out in the suburbs too.
—”Don’t mention Buckhead to Dan Rather. :)”
Buckhead spotted Dan Rather for the BS artist he truly is.
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