Tuesday, September 16, 2008
News Atlanta crime up and down
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:37 PM
AJC.com skimmers may have noticed two contradictory headlines yesterday.
"Violent crime increases across metro Atlanta"
and
"Atlanta figures project violent crime drop in '08."
The first story reported that, in 2007, crime in Atlanta was way up despite an overall national decline in crime.
The AJC cited crime stats issued by the FBI. We reported the increase on Fresh Loaf in June using reports available at AtlantaPD.org.
The second story noted a decrease in the rate of violent crime in Atlanta during the first six-months of 2008.
That's the good news.
The bad news -- the rate of burglaries and larcenies are up 17 and 19 percent respectively this year. Overall crime is up 9 percent so far this year in Atlanta.
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