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In 2022, Atlanta police investigated 170 homicides which is the most since 1996. [26] In 2023, the Atlanta Police Department implemented Operation Heatwave which is a strategic initiative to remove more dangerous drugs, guns, and gangs from the streets of Atlanta. [27] In 2023, homicides dropped to 135, down 22% from 2022. [28]
[8] [9] [10] The English Avenue/Vine City area has some of the highest poverty and crime rates in the city, with the Carter St. area surrounding the Vine City MARTA station ranking in 2010 as the #1 most dangerous neighborhood in Atlanta and #5 in the United States.
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
“Now, we were a unique city, because in the '40s and '50s, when all of this was going on, we probably had more Black PhDs in Atlanta than anywhere else in the world,” Young said.
From Boston to Detroit — why Atlanta's 'Cop City' protests are galvanizing communities around the U.S. Marquise Francis. March 25, 2023 at 5:00 AM ... to be used against all Americans, it has ...
When Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, they discussed how Atlanta has grown and ...
In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) went further than the FBI itself, and approved a resolution opposing not only the use of the ratings to judge police departments, but also any development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) at all. The resolution opposed these rankings ...
Gentrification of predominately African-American inner-city neighborhoods, particularly those in close proximity to Downtown Atlanta or the BeltLine, is one of the major reasons why housing costs within the city limits significantly jumped which prompted many African Americans to move outside the city seeking a more affordable cost of living.