Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Add it up Add It Up: Murder, my sweet
Posted by Alyssa Abkowitz on Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Number of murders in Atlanta in 2006 and 2005, respectively: 110, 90
Percentage increase of homicides in the past year in Atlanta: 2
Percentage the murder rate increased nationwide in the last year: 0.3
Percentage the murder rate increased in large cities with 1 million people or more in the last year: 6.7
Overall violent-crime percentage increase in Atlanta in the past year: 4.6
Overall violent-crime percentage decrease in New York in the past year: 5.3
Number of years that crime has declined in Atlanta, according to a Georgia State criminologist: 10
Number of murders in the first quarters of 2006 and 2007, respectively: 21, 21
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