Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Atlanta Officials Dispute City's Notorious Crime Ranking
ATLANTA -- Atlanta officials say crime has been going down, despite a recent study that ranked it as the third most dangerous city in the nation.
This year, Atlanta was rated the third worst city in crime by Morgan Quitno, a Kansas firm that ranks cities by their crime rates. Only Camden, N.J., and Detroit were ahead of Atlanta.
The Morgan Quitno rankings look at six major crimes reported each year to the FBI: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and automobile theft.
Police Chief Richard Pennington said Monday he knows Atlanta has a high crime rate but there are signs of improvement. In fact, such surveys may "help our cause," Pennington said, because they
get the public and city officials talking about the problem.
Pennington said
the rates show crime has gone down since he arrived in 2002.
In 2003, Atlanta had 20,780 reported crimes. As of Nov. 13, Atlanta had 17,876 reported crimes this year. But with 48 days left in the year and the holidays approaching, the final number of reported crimes remains uncertain.
Also, Pennington said that by the end of the year, the police department will be nearly back to its authorized staffing level of 1,732 officers. When he came into office, it was less than 1,600, he said.
A.J. Robinson, president of Central Atlanta Progress, a downtown advocacy organization, said his organization has been fighting such crime studies for years.
"It does have some impact on people's perception of the city, right or wrong," Robinson said. "When people hear reports of crime, they think 'downtown.' "
Robert Friedmann, a criminologist at Georgia State Univers
ity,
said per-capita crime rates are deceiving because pockets of high crime can skew a citywide average.
"Most business i
n Atlanta is done in the convention area, in the downtown area, in the hotels area," Friedmann said. "Those areas are relatively safe."
City officials have long fought the perception that Atlanta has a dangerously high crime rate.
In 1989, Atlanta officials were irked when Washington officials released a study saying Atlanta was the nation's most dangerous city. And in 1996, then-Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers caused a stir when he said Atlanta's streets were more dangerous than those in war-torn Sarajevo.
The Morgan Quitno study also ranked Macon the ninth most dangerous city in the nation among those with populations ranging from 75,000 to 99,999.
***Deyz mo!***
Shrevepo
rt-Bossier Ranked 12th Most Dangerous Metro Area in Country
Three Louisiana metropolitan areas are among the 25 most dangerous in the country, according to a report released Monday by a company that
specializes in state and city statistical reference books. New Orleans and its suburbs comprised the fifth-most dangerous metropolitan area in the country in terms of residents' exposure to violent crime, the report by Lawrence, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press said.
The Bossier City-Shreveport area ranked 12th and the Lafayette area 14th. New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass has said the city is relatively safe for people who obey the law and steer clear of pockets known for high drug trafficking and related crime. He has noted that the vast majority of the city's murders have involved people who knew one another. Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno Press, said Compass may be right, but stressed that, "even if these people know each other, it's still n
ot good for
a city to have people being shot there." "These aren't rampaging scenes where someone is running down the street randomly hurting people, but you do see a spillover in terms of burglary. ... You still have houses broken into
by somebody trying to finance their (drug) habit."
The report uses U.S. Census definitions of metropolitan statistical areas and tallies its rankings based on 2003 FBI data kept in six categories - murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. The report also ranked cities excluding their outlying communities. In that ranking, New Orleans was eighth-most dangerous, while no other Louisiana city was in the top 25.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's homeland security director, Terry Ebbert, said the city is not satisfied with its crime rate but has a lot of faith in Compass and in his department. "We've got a long ways to go, but if you back us up to 1995 and see we've had 40 percent reductio
n, we've do
ne a lot," Ebbert said. Ebbert notes that a lot of the metro areas in the report were smaller and in many cases newer communities that were difficult to compare to New Orleans. For example, the safest metropolitan area was listed as Appleton, Wis., where the popu
lation is estimated at around 210,000.
The New Orleans metro area includes more than 1.3 million people. Some of the more dangerous metro areas included Detroit (ranked No. 1), Memphis (2), Miami (6) and Las Vegas (8). In the strictly municipal category - which did not include suburbs - Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Atlanta ranked as more dangerous than New Orleans. "What are our comparisons with our contemporaries? All of us face challenges in policing," Ebbert said. "We face challenges as old cities to fight the war on poverty." Officials from Shreveport and Lafayette did not return calls for comment. Those cities are more similar in size to some of the safest cities. In 2003, The Shreveport-B
ossier metro area p
opulation was estimated at 379,000, while Lafayette's was 243,000.
F-B-I crime statistics used by Morgan Quitno Press to rank the Shreveport-Bossier City as the 12th most dangerous metro area in the county: (The data was from 2003)
Shreveport-Bossier City:
Violent
crime 2,941
Murder 55 (4 occurred in Bossier City)
Rape 171
Robbery 806
Assault 1,909
Burglary 49,39
Auto theft 2,062
Top 25 rankings of safest and most dangerous metropolitan areas in the report by Morgan Quitno Press. Populations are in parentheses. The rankings were based on 2003 data:
Most Dangerous:
1. Detroit (2.05 million)
2. Memphis. Tenn. (1.24 million)
3. Sumter, S.C. (106,222)
4. Fairbanks, Ala. (32,652)
5. New Orleans (1.32 million)
6. Miami (2.38 million)
7. Myrtle Beach, S.C. (208,044)
8. Las Vegas (1.57 million)
9. Victoria, Texas (114,352)
<
br>10. Florence, S.C. (
197,067)
11. Stockton, Calif. (620,747)
12. Shreveport-Bossier (379,039)
13. Pine Bluff, Ark. (106,774)
14. Lafayette, La. (243,294)
15. Jackson, Miss. (507,181)
16. Saginaw, Mich. (210,704)
17. Phoenix (3.58 million)
18. Tucson, Ariz. (901,305)
19. Los Angeles (9.91 million)
20. Baltimore (2.63 million)
21. Albuquer
que, N.M. (761,936)
22. Vineland, N.J. (148,595)
23. Montgomery, Ala. (352,344)
24. Little Rock, Ark. (626,440)
25. Charleston S.C. (568,142)
Safest:
1. Appleton, Wis. (209,705)
2. Fond du Lac, Wis. (98,368)
3. Bismarck, N.D. (96,307)
4. State College, Penn. (138,865)
5. Oshkosh-Neenah, Wis. (159,306)
6. Bangor, Maine (147,286)
7. Harrisonburg, Va. (110,950)
8. Binghamton, N.Y. (252,525)
9. Wausau, Wis. (127,452)
10. La Crosse, Wis. (128,769)
11. Columbus, Ind. (72,061)
12. Edison, N.J. (2,264,946
)
13. Sheboygan, Wis. (113,123)
14. Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y. (2.81 million)
15. Glens Falls, N.Y. (125,314)
16. Rockingham County, N.H. (407,977)
17. Portland, Maine (504,909)
18. Fargo, N.D. (177,421)
19. Provo-Orem, Utah (402,411)
20. Grand Forks, N.D. (96,253)
21. Williamsport, Penn. (119,293)
22. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (645,621)
23. Cambridge-Newton, Mass (1.48 million)
24. Lewiston, Idaho (58,466)
25. Bloomington, Ind. (177
,976)
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Ol' Tyrone went to TOP AND BOTTOM 25 CITIES OVERALL and did some research:
MOST DANGEROUS 25:
1. Camden, NJ = 53.3% nigger
2. Detroit, MI = 81.6% nigger
3. Atlanta, GA = 61.4% nigger
4. St. Louis, MO = 51.2% nigger
5. Gary, IN = 84.0% nigger
6. Washington, DC = 60% nigger
7. Hartford, CT = 38.1% nigger
8. New Orleans, LA = 67.3% nigger
9. Richmond, VA = 57.2% nigger
10. Birmingham, AL = 73.5% nigger
<
a href='http://www.epodunk.com/cgi
-bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=2444' target='_blank'>11. Baltimore, MD = 64.3% nigger</a>
12. Richmond, CA = 36.1% nigger, 26.5% spic
13. Memphis, TN = 61.4% nigger
14. Jackson, MS = 70.6% nigger
15. Tampa, FL = 26.1% nigger, 19.3% spic
16. San Bernardino, CA = 16.4% nigger, 47.5% spic
17. Compton, CA = 40.3% nigger, 56.8% spic
19. Miami, FL = 22.3% nigger, 65.8% spic
20. Cleveland, OH = 51.0% nigger
21. Dayton, OH = 43.1% nigger
22. North Charleston, SC = 49.4% nigger
23. Little Rock, AR = 40.4% nigger
24. Oakland, CA = 35.7% nigger, 21.9% spic
25. Cincinnati, OH = 42.9% nigger
Safest Cities (every fifth
one)
1. Newton, MA = 2% nigger
5. Clarkstown, NY = 7.9% nigger
10. Dover Twnshp, NJ = 1.7% nigger
15. Hamilton Twnshp, NJ = 8.2% nigger
20. Livonia, MI = 0.9% nigger
25. Stamford, CT = 15.4% nigger
The facts speak for themselves. Large nigger and spic populations make a city dangerous.
T.N.B.
Atlanta Officials Dispute City's Notorious Crime Ranking
ATLANTA -- Atlanta officials say crime has been going down, despite a recent study that ranked it as the third most dangerous city in the nation.
This year, Atlanta was rated the third worst city in crime by Morgan Quitno, a Kansas firm that ranks cities by their crime rates. Only Camden, N.J., and Detroit were ahead of Atlanta.
The Morgan Quitno rankings look at six major crimes reported each year to the FBI: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and automobile theft.
Police Chief Richard Pennington said Monday he knows Atlanta has a high crime rate but there are signs of improvement. In fact, such surveys may "help our cause," Pennington said, because they
get the public and city officials talking about the problem.
Pennington said
the rates show crime has gone down since he arrived in 2002.
In 2003, Atlanta had 20,780 reported crimes. As of Nov. 13, Atlanta had 17,876 reported crimes this year. But with 48 days left in the year and the holidays approaching, the final number of reported crimes remains uncertain.
Also, Pennington said that by the end of the year, the police department will be nearly back to its authorized staffing level of 1,732 officers. When he came into office, it was less than 1,600, he said.
A.J. Robinson, president of Central Atlanta Progress, a downtown advocacy organization, said his organization has been fighting such crime studies for years.
"It does have some impact on people's perception of the city, right or wrong," Robinson said. "When people hear reports of crime, they think 'downtown.' "
Robert Friedmann, a criminologist at Georgia State Univers
ity,
said per-capita crime rates are deceiving because pockets of high crime can skew a citywide average.
"Most business i
n Atlanta is done in the convention area, in the downtown area, in the hotels area," Friedmann said. "Those areas are relatively safe."
City officials have long fought the perception that Atlanta has a dangerously high crime rate.
In 1989, Atlanta officials were irked when Washington officials released a study saying Atlanta was the nation's most dangerous city. And in 1996, then-Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers caused a stir when he said Atlanta's streets were more dangerous than those in war-torn Sarajevo.
The Morgan Quitno study also ranked Macon the ninth most dangerous city in the nation among those with populations ranging from 75,000 to 99,999.
***Deyz mo!***
Shrevepo
rt-Bossier Ranked 12th Most Dangerous Metro Area in Country
Three Louisiana metropolitan areas are among the 25 most dangerous in the country, according to a report released Monday by a company that
specializes in state and city statistical reference books. New Orleans and its suburbs comprised the fifth-most dangerous metropolitan area in the country in terms of residents' exposure to violent crime, the report by Lawrence, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press said.
The Bossier City-Shreveport area ranked 12th and the Lafayette area 14th. New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass has said the city is relatively safe for people who obey the law and steer clear of pockets known for high drug trafficking and related crime. He has noted that the vast majority of the city's murders have involved people who knew one another. Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno Press, said Compass may be right, but stressed that, "even if these people know each other, it's still n
ot good for
a city to have people being shot there." "These aren't rampaging scenes where someone is running down the street randomly hurting people, but you do see a spillover in terms of burglary. ... You still have houses broken into
by somebody trying to finance their (drug) habit."
The report uses U.S. Census definitions of metropolitan statistical areas and tallies its rankings based on 2003 FBI data kept in six categories - murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. The report also ranked cities excluding their outlying communities. In that ranking, New Orleans was eighth-most dangerous, while no other Louisiana city was in the top 25.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's homeland security director, Terry Ebbert, said the city is not satisfied with its crime rate but has a lot of faith in Compass and in his department. "We've got a long ways to go, but if you back us up to 1995 and see we've had 40 percent reductio
n, we've do
ne a lot," Ebbert said. Ebbert notes that a lot of the metro areas in the report were smaller and in many cases newer communities that were difficult to compare to New Orleans. For example, the safest metropolitan area was listed as Appleton, Wis., where the popu
lation is estimated at around 210,000.
The New Orleans metro area includes more than 1.3 million people. Some of the more dangerous metro areas included Detroit (ranked No. 1), Memphis (2), Miami (6) and Las Vegas (8). In the strictly municipal category - which did not include suburbs - Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Atlanta ranked as more dangerous than New Orleans. "What are our comparisons with our contemporaries? All of us face challenges in policing," Ebbert said. "We face challenges as old cities to fight the war on poverty." Officials from Shreveport and Lafayette did not return calls for comment. Those cities are more similar in size to some of the safest cities. In 2003, The Shreveport-B
ossier metro area p
opulation was estimated at 379,000, while Lafayette's was 243,000.
F-B-I crime statistics used by Morgan Quitno Press to rank the Shreveport-Bossier City as the 12th most dangerous metro area in the county: (The data was from 2003)
Shreveport-Bossier City:
Violent
crime 2,941
Murder 55 (4 occurred in Bossier City)
Rape 171
Robbery 806
Assault 1,909
Burglary 49,39
Auto theft 2,062
Top 25 rankings of safest and most dangerous metropolitan areas in the report by Morgan Quitno Press. Populations are in parentheses. The rankings were based on 2003 data:
Most Dangerous:
1. Detroit (2.05 million)
2. Memphis. Tenn. (1.24 million)
3. Sumter, S.C. (106,222)
4. Fairbanks, Ala. (32,652)
5. New Orleans (1.32 million)
6. Miami (2.38 million)
7. Myrtle Beach, S.C. (208,044)
8. Las Vegas (1.57 million)
9. Victoria, Texas (114,352)
<
br>10. Florence, S.C. (
197,067)
11. Stockton, Calif. (620,747)
12. Shreveport-Bossier (379,039)
13. Pine Bluff, Ark. (106,774)
14. Lafayette, La. (243,294)
15. Jackson, Miss. (507,181)
16. Saginaw, Mich. (210,704)
17. Phoenix (3.58 million)
18. Tucson, Ariz. (901,305)
19. Los Angeles (9.91 million)
20. Baltimore (2.63 million)
21. Albuquer
que, N.M. (761,936)
22. Vineland, N.J. (148,595)
23. Montgomery, Ala. (352,344)
24. Little Rock, Ark. (626,440)
25. Charleston S.C. (568,142)
Safest:
1. Appleton, Wis. (209,705)
2. Fond du Lac, Wis. (98,368)
3. Bismarck, N.D. (96,307)
4. State College, Penn. (138,865)
5. Oshkosh-Neenah, Wis. (159,306)
6. Bangor, Maine (147,286)
7. Harrisonburg, Va. (110,950)
8. Binghamton, N.Y. (252,525)
9. Wausau, Wis. (127,452)
10. La Crosse, Wis. (128,769)
11. Columbus, Ind. (72,061)
12. Edison, N.J. (2,264,946
)
13. Sheboygan, Wis. (113,123)
14. Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y. (2.81 million)
15. Glens Falls, N.Y. (125,314)
16. Rockingham County, N.H. (407,977)
17. Portland, Maine (504,909)
18. Fargo, N.D. (177,421)
19. Provo-Orem, Utah (402,411)
20. Grand Forks, N.D. (96,253)
21. Williamsport, Penn. (119,293)
22. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (645,621)
23. Cambridge-Newton, Mass (1.48 million)
24. Lewiston, Idaho (58,466)
25. Bloomington, Ind. (177
,976)
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Ol' Tyrone went to TOP AND BOTTOM 25 CITIES OVERALL and did some research:
MOST DANGEROUS 25:
1. Camden, NJ = 53.3% nigger
2. Detroit, MI = 81.6% nigger
3. Atlanta, GA = 61.4% nigger
4. St. Louis, MO = 51.2% nigger
5. Gary, IN = 84.0% nigger
6. Washington, DC = 60% nigger
7. Hartford, CT = 38.1% nigger
8. New Orleans, LA = 67.3% nigger
9. Richmond, VA = 57.2% nigger
10. Birmingham, AL = 73.5% nigger
<
a href='http://www.epodunk.com/cgi
-bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=2444' target='_blank'>11. Baltimore, MD = 64.3% nigger</a>
12. Richmond, CA = 36.1% nigger, 26.5% spic
13. Memphis, TN = 61.4% nigger
14. Jackson, MS = 70.6% nigger
15. Tampa, FL = 26.1% nigger, 19.3% spic
16. San Bernardino, CA = 16.4% nigger, 47.5% spic
17. Compton, CA = 40.3% nigger, 56.8% spic
19. Miami, FL = 22.3% nigger, 65.8% spic
20. Cleveland, OH = 51.0% nigger
21. Dayton, OH = 43.1% nigger
22. North Charleston, SC = 49.4% nigger
23. Little Rock, AR = 40.4% nigger
24. Oakland, CA = 35.7% nigger, 21.9% spic
25. Cincinnati, OH = 42.9% nigger
Safest Cities (every fifth
one)
1. Newton, MA = 2% nigger
5. Clarkstown, NY = 7.9% nigger
10. Dover Twnshp, NJ = 1.7% nigger
15. Hamilton Twnshp, NJ = 8.2% nigger
20. Livonia, MI = 0.9% nigger
25. Stamford, CT = 15.4% nigger
The facts speak for themselves. Large nigger and spic populations make a city dangerous.
T.N.B.
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