re: Jogger shot in Buckhead (Atlanta)

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I moved to Old Forth Ward in 2004. Sold my house there and moved to Inman Park in 2018. Just sold my house in Inman Park and am renting right now to figure out what to do and where to go. To put this in perspective 2004 Old Fourth Ward was safer than current Buckhead is now. It isn't really about race as some of the most productive and best years in the city were the 8 years that Kasim Reed was in office. I would also throw in Shirley Franklin's last 3 years as being extremely positive. Bottoms has destroyed all that and she clearly doesn't give a crap and has checked out already before she is out in January. I have had some neighbors leave but mostly to move out of state. Many of the Atlanta suburbs are shitholes now as well so there aren't many options unless you want to move up to Jasper, Ellijay, Blue Ridge, or Mineral Bluff. Cobb will be what Gwinnett is now in 8 to 10 years. This whole situation could have been avoided with different leadership.

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I've talked to people from other places (largely well meaning Democrats living in heavily white area) who don't understand why there is this backlash to BLM and all the recent theatrics associated with it. But I've told them to imagine living in a fairly high-crime city where 99% of the opportunistic or random violent crime and like 95% of the property crime is committed by black people. Then imagine you're asked to endure a crime spike involving the same demographics all while being told that the villains are those of us who try and avoid said crime. It's gaslighting on an industrial scale.

White crime in Atlanta is so rare that I'm amused and intrigued when I see news stories of white burglars and such in other parts of the country. That would be a novelty here.