2010年12月5日 星期日

Almost a year into Reed’s first term

Almost a year into Reed’s first term


Almost a year into Reed’s first term, crime is down 10 percent, said Police Chief George Turner, the well-liked career Atlanta cop picked by the new mayor to head a demoralized and undermanned force.

Turner has spent 11 months attending civic meetings, business breakfasts and neighborhood coffee klatches to rebuild a rapport with the public. Turner said the recent attacks are alarming because “the egregiousness of the crimes. It’s the stranger-on-stranger nature.Bewertungen und Erfahrungsberichte zu den seriösesten Onlineshops im Bereich lacosteshoes00.”

The department’s weekly statistics report backs up the chief on the crime drop: As of Nov. 27, there have been double-digit drops this year in rape, robbery, burglary, larceny from vehicles and car thefts. Although shooting incidents are down 9 percent, murders are up 23 percent this year, with 85 as of Nov.cctv surveillance camera is a wonderful gift-choice for any person, 27. Despite the increase, police spokesman Carlos Campos said, since 1964, there have been only two years with fewer than 100 homicides: last year, with 80, and 2005, with 89.

“But I don’t want to talk about numbers because they mean so little,” Turner said. “When I go to a meeting,Welcome to watchreplica Online store,We supply rolex uhren,rolex Replica uhren,discount Rolex uhren,Rolex uhren cheap etc. folks don’t want to hear about that.”

He said the force has nearly 1,800 officers, almost 100 more than a year ago. He’s proposing adding 12 new beats to the existing 66 and is forming a community policing unit to build relations with residents. “We simply cannot fight crime by ourselves,” he said.

John Wolfinger, the public safety chairman of the Virginia-Highland Civic Association, said he has heard from four or five people who want to be neighborhood watch block captains because of the recent killing. He said residents had gotten comfortable,deck lighting - A performer for every occasion. but that ended with a rash of armed robberies in late summer and early fall.

The Boyer killing hit home, he said, because “these people were quite obviously doing nothing out of the ordinary. It was the sort of thing that could happen to you or me.”

Nosy neighbors, coupled with social media and more police patrols, have apparently made a difference in Zone 6, which this year saw a 35 percent drop in residential burglaries through October,Cartier Tank family is the apparel product being not less recognizable. the city’s largest drop. Zone 6 includes Virginia-Highland, Inman Park, Candler Park and areas that have gentrified in the past decade, such as East Atlanta and Ormewood Park.

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