Monday, February 2, 2009
News Add It Up: Fighting crime with awareness
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Number of people who gathered at The Standard Jan. 8 to memorialize slain bartender John Henderson: 200
Number of Facebook members for Atlantans Together Against Crime four days after Henderson was killed: 750
Number of members as of last week: 5,558
Estimated attendance at the group’s first anti-crime rally last week in Little Five Points: 175
Estimated attendance at a town hall meeting on neighborhood crime hosted last week by Council President Lisa Borders: 300
Percent reduction in police man-hours due to city-wide furloughs: 10
Number of restaurants that participated in a benefit last Wednesday to add to the reward to find Henderson’s killers: 79
Estimated amount the “dine-out” benefit raised toward the reward, in dollars: 50,000
Total dollar amount of the reward, as of Friday: 72,000
Sources: Atlantans Together Against Crime, AJC, Crime Stoppers Atlanta
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