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Old Posted Jun 23, 2009, 12:20 PM
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Who's responsible for these attacks? What can be done to stop them?
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Old Posted Jun 23, 2009, 3:50 PM
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*Sigh* I don't know. With the APD being stretched thin already, I guess they don't have the resources to set up an ongoing decoy-type operation to bait these people with.

Hiring private security requires a level of coordination and participation (and money) that might be difficult to achieve in an area with a high percentage of transient, low-income renters.

It's strange - way back when they'd just finished the remediation and site work for Atlantic Station and word was getting around of just how incredibly, historically big this thing was going to be, a lot of the architecture and planning people that I knew were predicting that Home Park was going to completely change and become The Place to Live. They thought that much of the rental housing would be knocked down and redeveloped or sold off as fixer-uppers to wealthy people wanting to move back intown, but not interested in the new, highrise condos. Of course, this was at the peak of Condomania, when buying a house was as easy as falling down if you had a little money in the bank, and people thought it would go on forever.
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Old Posted Jun 24, 2009, 2:40 PM
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Gee, yet another incident. Who's doing all this? How can we make them stop?

Gunmen hold up another student near Tech
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2009, 3:18 PM
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Gee, yet another incident. Who's doing all this? How can we make them stop?
Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2009, 5:06 PM
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Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
Racist much?
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2009, 5:23 PM
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Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
Yeah, how do we know that?
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Racist much?
I'm sorry you misinterpretted what I was trying to say... Everyone knows it's really little green men from Mars that are committing all the crime around Georgia Tech.
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2009, 8:53 PM
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Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
Such an asinine response.

Tool.

As someone who has close connections to Tech and religiously read The Technique there have been perpetrators of various races and ethnicities who commit crimes in the area and toward the students.
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I'm sorry you misinterpretted what I was trying to say... Everyone knows it's really little green men from Mars that are committing all the crime around Georgia Tech.


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Old Posted Jun 25, 2009, 11:03 PM
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I'm sorry you misinterpretted what I was trying to say... Everyone knows it's really little green men from Mars that are committing all the crime around Georgia Tech.
If you say so, you sound like one of those types that checks the local news webpage to comment on all the crime happening in the "Bad part" of town.
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Old Posted Jun 26, 2009, 12:27 AM
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Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! Ok, people get their post deleted when they argue about stuff but no one has deleted this? Really..........REALLY!!!!!!!

And to respond to your comment. People that make comments like that are what is wrong with the world....
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White people don't rob other people?
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Comments like that don't really do anything. They don't serve a purpose or add to a discourse. It is a form of lashing out and it doesn't take into consideration the people of non-Caucasian heritage on this board who are completely innocent but have to be saddled with these stereotypes and associations with criminals.

Really disgusting. It offends anyone with a good conscience, empathy, or common sense.
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Old Posted Jun 26, 2009, 3:01 AM
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I'd still be interested in knowing who IS committing these crimes and what can be done to stop them. It's pretty hard to create a livable urban area when you've got significant numbers of people being robbed at gunpoint and sometimes shot.
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Old Posted Jun 26, 2009, 2:50 PM
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How can Atlanta be a desired area to live or relocate when people arent even safe in a parking deck of a gated community. That is pretty scary. I have to admit I'm almost paranoid about becoming a victim of crime as well. I dont leave my house at night very often anymore. That is very sad!
If the city doesnt get a handle on this crime everywhere. I suspect people will begin fleeing for the burbs like in past decades or even leave Atlanta in general. There's always that argument that there's crime in every big city. Which is very true. But the crime here is more rampant and widespread. I just hope the next mayor recognizes we need police engaging in the community more. In the more walkable neighborhoods the police need to be on foot or on some sort of bike or motor bike to have more of a presence. Downtown Atlanta I feel has a good police and security presence. Midtown and the other intown neighborhoods however have a non-existant one.
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Midtown and the other intown neighborhoods however have a non-existant one.
Midtown Blue is excellent. They don't cover Westside.

It's almost impossible to completely stop this type of crime in a recession. I don't think ATL is uniquely incompetent in policing.

personally i would rather pay higher taxes. everyone whines about this but they have fits over paying an extra $200 a year in taxes.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 12:11 PM
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Well I can tell you who is NOT doing it... White people!
Okay, so what would have been the "correct" interpretation of what you said, since we all seem to have managed to misunderstand it?

The guy who robbed my husband in Home Park was very much white. Sorry to disappoint you.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 7:06 PM
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personally i would rather pay higher taxes. everyone whines about this but they have fits over paying an extra $200 a year in taxes.
I sense that the City of Atlanta's relatively low-density character is going to start to take its toll in the coming decades. The vast amount of horizontal infrastructure that we've come to know in many areas doesn't come cheaply, so we'll need to do one of the following:

1. Pay more in taxes

2. Experience further service cuts

3. Densify at a tax revenue positive level, or

4. Abandon large parts of the city

There's only so much that can come from improved efficiency at City Hall.

None of these are going to be easy, but people need to stop unilaterally complaining against more taxes, against service cuts, against density, or against those who question the "sanctity" of the the Atlanta lifestyle. They need to come to terms with the fact that something will have to give. Everything comes at a price.

Side note: Just think of what the even less dense suburban and exurban areas will experience in around 30 more years.
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Very good points, Terminus.
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