Homicides in Atlanta are on track to beat last year's 30-year high of 158 murders while rapes are up 236% after a soft-on-crime mayor and pandemic lockdowns sent crime in the city spiraling.
Atlanta Police Department statistics revealed on Friday, that homicides are up 43 percent for 2022 compared to the same period, from January 1 to February 12, in 2021. In total, there were 20 homicides so far in 2022 compared to 14 last year.
Rapes are also up an astounding 236 percent, with 37 reported so far this year, compared to 11 at the same time in 2021.
Burglaries are also up 18 percent from last year, with 229 reported as of February 12 compared to 191 at the same time in 2021, and shoplifting cases are up 4 percent, with 164 cases thus far in 2022 compared to 157 last year.
The Atlanta Police Department has said 'irresponsible gun ownership' has led to many of the shootings this year, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after more than 2,000 firearms were stolen from vehicles in Atlanta last year.
While some city officials laid the blame at woke former Mayor Lance Bottoms, who announced she wasn't running for office again in 2022, for not doing enough to tackle crime. Meanwhile, Bottom tried to blame local Republicans for lax gun lows and lifting the pandemic lockdown.
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Oh, come on Ron, surely not!! Nobody in Atlanta would cook the books would they???
Something is wrong... if 2000 firearms were stolen how is it that only 229 burglaries were reported yielding an 18% increase in burglaries... I wouldn't trust anything coming out of Atlanta ..., especially from its woke PD. It appears the same math-challenged individuals counting ballots and votes are maintaining the criminal statistics for Atlanta.
All democratic cities are in darkness. All their leaders are wicked and corrupt.
That's progress for the Progressives.
Liberal blacks, for what ever reason, are not capable of or they, like many whites, drunk on power.
Wait until Stacy Abrams takes her rightful place as governor!
Excuse me......I forgot she already is governor, time to step up!
Thinking maybe a stretch...Tank Abrams doesn't think she ruminates... like all good Bovines. What a Cow...