Local Crime Complaint

Two off-duty police officers were just ambushed, shot and killed in a neighborhood not too many miles away from mine! They're still looking for the gunmen.

We've had too many dramatic crime stories recently. Last year, in a different neighborhood, also not too far away from where I live, a family was having a large dinner party when two thugs started shooting through their living room window. Everyone ran upstairs and jumped out the back second-story window, sustaining several injuries... the thugs ran toward the train station but were caught. It was a completely stupid random walk-by shooting.

And last month a Fulton police officer got carjacked.

Atlanta has a rising murder rate when most other large cities have a declining rate. The official spin is to blame resettled New Orleans gangsters, but I don't buy that, we have plenty of native Atlantan criminal issues already. It's completely insane. We need a lot more work and resources in this area. The lack of emphasis on community policing is just terrible. Judging by my last experience calling 911, there are problems across the board. We need better gun control, more beat cops (do these even EXIST anymore? I certainly never see any), more transparency and better-motivated police officers with less police corruption. I'm sick of hearing local news about grannies shot down by police and prisoners shooting court reporters and rappers shooting videos from their jail cells.

Atlanta is not all that bad, but it's not getting better either.