My friend Tucker Carlson recently did a masterful piece on what has happened in Atlanta and, more specifically, in Buckhead.
For symbolism, I suggested the Peachtree Road Race this year should have the winner breaking through yellow crime scene tape. My fear is that when the official signals the start of the race with his starter’s gun, he might receive return fire.
The crime stats in Atlanta, per 11 Alive News (WATL, the NBC affiliate), are worse per capita than Chicago.
As someone who has had his car broken into three times in 13 months while visiting Buckhead, I can personally attest that it is as bad as you hear. In one instance I was doing stand-up at the Punchline in Buckhead. At 10:30 p.m. the security camera caught this person breaking the back seat window of my Yukon. They do that because they know the car alarm does not go off (I think they teach that in the STEM program in the Atlanta public schools). She stole everything out of my car, including a checkbook. The next day she wrote herself a check from my account, with her name plainly on the check.
Case solved, right? Video of the break-in, stolen check written to self, etc. But the Atlanta cops stupidly said check fraud is a federal crime and not their department. But it was not check fraud; it was evidence of a break-in. They did not care.