() Residents of Atlanta have been speaking out, and “they are over” the huge rise in crime they’ve seen lately. Not “over” as in getting past it or forgetting it, but “over” as in sick and tired of dealing with it.
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Source – Law Enforcement Today
They are now calling on the Atlanta Police Department to do something.
During a recent online meeting, Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Major Andrew Senser explained that stolen guns and repeat offenders are the bad combination causing Atlanta’s crime spike:
“A lot of these guys are repeat offenders. We work real close with our community prosecutors and try to keep these guys locked up because a lot of them have many arrests for the same violent crimes.”
Major Senser pointed out the positive note of a decline in robberies over the summer, but explained that the department is trying to fill more than 300 officer positions that have been lost to normal attrition and retirements.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms addressed the crime issues in a recent Fox News interview.
Mayor Lance-Bottoms commented earlier about the rise in crime plaguing Atlanta:
“I think it’s just this perfect storm of distress in America.
“I think that the people are obviously anxious, and even angry about Covid-19. Loved ones are dying. People are losing their jobs. I think there’s a lot of frustration, a lot of angst.”
Lance-Bottoms didn’t miss the chance to throw police under the bus, blaming the issues on Atlanta police instead of unemployed criminals doing what unemployed criminals do.
“It doesn’t give people much hope and I think that it’s all converging together and we’re seeing it happen and spill out onto the streets in Atlanta and we’re seeing it across the country and then you add, on top of that, the cases that we’ve all witnessed of police brutality and it has all come together in a violent way.”
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) also commented on the surge in crime:
“Peaceful protests were hijacked by criminals with a dangerous, destructive agenda. Now, innocent Georgians are being targeted, shot, and left for dead. This lawlessness must be stopped and order restored in our capital city.”
Atlanta police report that they’ve seen a drastic uptick in major crimes, such as murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, aggravated assaults, larcenies from automobiles, other larcenies and automobile thefts.
In reference to murders, statistics up to September 5, 2020 show that there had been 96 murders in Atlanta this year to that point. This figure was 67 during the same period in 2019. That 96 number increased to 116 in just the month of October alone, which is 17 homicides ahead of last year’s number at the same time.
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In one recent case that hits a family close to home, a young 11-year-old boy was murdered this past week.
The young boy, Tyrell Sims, was killed during a drive-by shooting in Atlanta’s East Point community on the Southwest side of the city.
The boy’s mother talked with Atlanta’s Channel 11 news:
“I didn’t want to bury my baby, period.”
12-year-old Brayan Zavala was also killed during a drive-by shooting while out in his front yard in Clayton County, just south of Atlanta.
Brayan’s older brother spoke out:
“I’m trying to be as tough as I can be. It’s my brother. I just want my family to be strong.”
You may recall the unfortunate death of eight-year-old Secoreia Turner. Her mother spoke to Channel 11 News:
“My baby didn’t mean no harm. Somebody knows something.”
Young Secoreia was shot near the Wendy’s restaurant where Rayshard Brooks was shot while fighting with police. Her family had driven their car near a blockade of protesters and shots were fired at their car. The shooter was apprehended and charged, but of course, that doesn’t bring the little girl back.
Keith Strickland, Atlanta community activist and organizer described it as an epidemic that he constantly sees in the metro Atlanta community:
“I knocked on doors and I talked to so many parents. So many brothers and sisters. So many people that had lost siblings. And the common thing I saw was that pain they felt left a hole.”
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