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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...

...The level of violence today is unprecedented, he said, to the point where people are “just afraid to sit on a porch.” Polensek said he knows the coronavirus has made things worse, but that what he is hearing from “gangbangers” is that they don’t believe they will be arrested, that they will be released if they are taken into custody, and that the police are reluctant to confront them out of fear they will be accused of violating their civil or constitutional rights...

7 year old girl shot and killed....more shootings now being reported 1200 extra police on the street

he city recorded its 300th homicide this weekend and went on to record six others over a 60-hour period that saw 59 people shot, 13 fatally, from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning. So far this year, about 1,800 people have been shot across the city and more than 200 of those wounded have died of their wounds, according to records kept by the Chicago Tribune. A total of 306 people have been killed this year by shooting, stabbing or other means, Tribune records show. A 3-year-old boy was among the wounded who survived the weekend shootings. Police said he’s...

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