Crime is growing like Kudzu!

Get on their butts to catch or prevent more!

Or do you work there?

You are sooooo naive. Crime is indeed creeping it's way into everyone's lives and it's almost always seems to be the same "folks" doing the creeping. I feel sorry for your children because you yourself are subjecting them to racial ignorance. They are going to be subjected to crime sooner or later and you are doing absolutely NOTHING to prepare them.

Putting racial differences aside and being blind to reality are two entirely different things. Wake up and smell the roses before you sacrifice one of your children on the alter of politically correct stupidity.

People like you are doing nothing but putting out the "Welcome" mat for the thugs and criminals in Clayton County.

There are so few blacks in the banking failures that one is a rarity!

Want a list of the loan planners for credit cards? Color pictures?

See any blacks much testifying in congres from the Treasury, Securities and Excahnge Commission?

It is just a matter of need and opportunity isn't it?

Ignorance is also rampant in both cases.

But fair enough. Pick your risk: you avoid the SEC senior managers that you encounter in Fayette County and I'll avoid the young black males.

... You might re-visit some of the comments made on The Citizen in reaction to "white collar crimes" committed by whites. You'd find an amazingly consistent and decidedly vocal disgust for causing harm to others.

Wasn't there a car jacking not too long ago? Those can be pretty dangerous. Hope you aren't setting your little one's up to ignore SOME of the dangerous people out there because of their wrappers.

Ahhhhh, It looks like the liberals & racists have weighed in! Both of you should stay on topic in the thread if you even remotely expect people to not ridicule your posts.

You can continue your practice of pointing to exceptions to try and justify the monumental misdeeds of any particular ethic or geographic segment of our society or you can admit reality and try to be part of the solution. Attacking someone because they have made note of that reality is racism, pure & simple.

Additionally Diva, your childish and vulgar name calling toward another blogger here defines the intellectual level of your racism. Racist attacks in response to comments on the numerous misdeeds of an ethic group may have worked in the past but only serve now to define the gross nature of the attacker.

While I have no tolerance of criminals of any race or ethnic background, I must still look at percentages to determine what my risks are. As a Fayette businessman, well... others have defined that risk here in this thread. In respone to that threat, EVERYONE is our office is packing (and licensed). If I am forced into it by an armed robbery attempt or other such criminal activity, I will of course modify those percentages (however so slightly).

Have a nice day!_______________________________________________________________

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'
Sir Edmund Burke.
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“You can always tell when a liberal has lost the debate; they cease trying to wear you down with endless politically correct irrelevancies and resort to sarcasm, insult, and innuendo.”

We forgot the Mexicans.

Or is it an overwhelming number of incidents involving black males?

Nobody has said -- nor should they say -- that there is anything inheriantly wrong with any particular race. Nor should any reasonable person justify or underplay the damange done by institutionalized racism; especially when looking at how black families were broken up, lack of opportunities, etc.

I share your hope that we can put aside racial differences -- and just as whites have had to change certain ugly behaviors and beliefs to help make that happen, so too must the bruthas lay off the violent crime. They just gotta.

I know you're not saying that my 'color' means that I am part of the criminal element in Fayette County! What is drawing 'drug' dealers to Fayette - is Fayette 'users' who pay them. What is drawing criminals to Fayette County is a lack of knowledge how to help our law enforcement officials by identifying the criminal element (black, white, yellow, red, brown) We’re changing - and it takes more than just carrying a weapon. No 'thuggish' looking person should feel comfortable coming to the Avenues or the Pavilion. Believe me, no 'thuggish' looking person goes 'un-noticed' in Beverly Hills. With modern technology - our cell phones/cameras - we can make the criminal element in Fayette feel most uncomfortable. I applaud the law-enforcement that I see in my shopping center on a regular patrol. One of the communities that garners high property taxes in Fayette County is Country Lakes - a 'predominately black' community. Stop your rhetoric based on lack of knowledge.

This is a serious question: When does racial profiling stop and a description of the suspect begin? As a white man, I don't care if the description of a suspect is "white male" if that's what the witness saw, criminals should be in jail no matter what color they are. I'm not in favor of freeing all white suspects because they look like me. I think it is safe to assume that if your house was broken into, and you found out that it was a black man that did it you would want him caught and punished even though he is the same color as you.

Did you read the response I wrote, HOURS before you posted, that she was in her car and attacked as she got out of it?

But the part about someone knowing about the daily deposit being made... yeah, that makes sense.

There are some merchants with video cameras in the parking lot... I think the banks and maybe the drugstores? Not sure exactly.

A B S O L U T E L Y !!!!! This is what I'm talking about.

From what I heard, she was from the Zaxby's on the north side, and was attacked as she got out of her car.

Get a carry permit first though.....

It's good to have people like you around. You are the type of person who gets thugs like these caught! Wish I had been there with you! Be careful, and sharpen the end of that cane just in case there is an encore.

Kevin "Hack" King

:s

I'm tiring of the bruthas. Get it together. We're living in the reality of a black president. Evidently there are options to violent crime.

And the South shall rise again!!

I'm from Cali, vato. Wouldn't know the Rebel Yell unless Billy Idol was singing. One doesn't need to be predisposed towards anything to be tired of the bruthas. All one need do is pay attention.

I happen to require the labor of about 80 or so persons at what can only be considered the lowest rung of any measure of skill sets. The job pays $7/hour. The temp agency sends us (legal) women from Guatamala and black men from Atlanta and Clayton County. The black guys complain and typically quit very quickly. Make of it what you will. I mention this only to emphasize that, whatever my opinions are, they're shaped by actual hands-on experience with persons who accept or decline opportunities.

When an American-born and educated person reduces themself to being in a peer group with newly-arrived, unskilled immigrants with neither education nor language skills and they wash out, it says much about that person or even group of persons to me.

Gee ya think?!

I was working all day today and didn't hear anything about a man being killed at the park.

You sure about that?

It's true!! I'm one of the two persons that found the McCurry Park apparent suicide victim lying under the swing just minutes after hearing the gunshot. The lady that was beside me called 911 and we described his condition to the 911 operator. I haven't been back to the park since then after having walked there for a year or more. It's pretty unsettling.

I saw the cops and ambulance there as I drove home. So something happened. Just not sure what.

I was at McCurry Park walking my dog about 5:30pm on the path that goes from the parking lot across the offices towards the gated entrance on McDonough Road. A gentleman walking with his wife and very young son on the same path told me that a man had committed suicide about an hour and a half earlier on that spot. He said the man just sat down on the swing that is located off that path, just about 50 feet from McDonough Road, and shot himself. What a terrible tragedy. I hope kids were not around to witness such horror. The park was very busy while I was there, many families with small children playing around, enjoying the nice weather...

How things get swept under the rug, that would have been headline news in any other county.......PEACE AND ARM YOURSELF.....BLESS

In todays world, it's never really safe. You always have to keep your eyes and ears open. Theft of purses and wallets is not new to the area, been happening for years. You mentioned McCurry Park... Have not heard anything about that. Anyone else have any news? Live right around the corner from there and was home all day. Didn't see or hear anything or the chopper up in the air. Oh yeah, S LINDSEY... if you are who I think you are, so VERY glad we are neighbors... Glock, S&W & all the rest...

read it in tomorrow's AJC

How's about the Caddy driving 100 mph the wrong way on SR 85 towards Clayton County with its lights off at 5 am this morning?

Haven't heard anything about that yet.

And the Fayette County sheriff's deputies are very polite. Got mine in about eight days.

I say it's time we started welcoming visitors the way Clint Eastwood did in Gran Torino. For those who haven't seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MQaxY3byI

M1 Garand might be overkill, but it wasn't a subtle point.

Sig Sauer makes a heck of a handgun.

I loved that game!

Nice use of the word "ambulatory" Ben. Keep up the good work!