Comments on: MARTA’s “Wasted Money” is Wasted Headline

By: Baker

Baker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:51:11 +0000

BTW, I say all this only to try to flesh out the facts. Personally, crime or no crime, city living is fantastic and I wouldn’t trade it just so (theoretically) my car never gets broken into.

By: Baker

Baker — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:05:20 +0000

There is certainly crime everywhere. Unfortunately, the two times my car has been broken into were 1) in Ponce-Highlands area, and 2) near the Fox Theatre. I walked in on a guy breaking into my neighbors apt in Ponce-Highlands (it was a white guy thank you). My view may be skewed, luckily, the FBI tracks this stuff. For some reason, they dont like percentages or rates but check out this page http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_08_ga.html
Every city in Georgia is listed with the number and type of crimes broken down.

By: Deanne

Deanne — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:36:53 +0000

Another Rick- Wouldn’t it be great if walkable neighborhoods could eliminate crime? Why, we’d have a healthy & wonderful world! Unfortunately not everyone in the Ponce-Highlands area has had your same experience. It wasn’t all that long ago that it & the nearby areas were in the news constantly for attacks & home invasions & burgleries. More eyes on an area help, but crime happens everywhere.

By: karass

karass — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:16:15 +0000

Sounds like we need a truth meter for truth meters. Even a basic concept like “truth” is not straight forward–there’s a strict constructionist approach that would look at the letter of the quote vs a contextual approach that would look at the intent too.

By: Another Rick

Another Rick — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:39:49 +0000

I disagree. It is people walking that help make an area safe. I liked for a while in the Ponce-Highlands area. And most of my relatives live far outside 285. I did walk the streets in my old neighborhood at all times of the day, never a victim of crime. One of my relatives in Lilburn suffered a home invasion, and another was mugged in her empty subdivision street. What does that tell you about the relative safety of crime inside and outside the perimeter?