With difficult times, thieves and predators get more desperate and more violent. Also, cities strapped for cash make hard choices. Last week, the City of Atlanta announced all officers would take an extra day off every two weeks.
These are troubling time. It's a time where no matter on which side of the bar you stand, we all stand together.
UPDATE: There is a vigil tomorrow morning at The Standard. And that's not a typo. It's 7:00am.
Atlanta, GA, January 8, 2009 – Due to the January 7 Robbery and Murder at Grant Park bar, Standard Food and Spirits, residents of Zone 6 have united
UPDATE II: The owners of The Standard have asked that tomorrow's event be a vigil and not a protest. Please do not bring placards and what not.
2 comments:
Crime is up everywhere. But I still don't understand the execution of someone. I just can't.
I don't understand how a bad economy makes criminals more vicious. More numerous, yes, but more violent I don't understand.
After all, weren't they already made desperate by their own private bad economy?
I am not trying to make light of the situation and truly would like to hear some hard information to support that they become more violent.
I know that large amounts of money, like fighting over the drug trade, will result in huge violence, but this doesn't make sense to me.
Anecdotal evidence is pretty much worthless becasue violent crime in my Midtown neighbiorhood is WAY down since a year ago.
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