Atlanta Police dispute “most dangerous neighborhoods lists”

In Atlanta, Georgia four neighborhoods are part of the 25 most dangerous in the United States. Atlanta is in the position 5, 7, 17, and 22 on the list and one of the neighborhoods is within walking distance of CNN’s world headquarters. APD says they will not dispute that there are neighborhoods in Atlanta that experience more crimes than others for a variety of factors. They stated that they take fighting crimes seriously, and do not believe it can be reduced to headlines about dangerous neighborhoods based on potentially flawed methodology.

I think Atlanta police department should not dispute about the neighborhoods problems because it keeps the news out of the way so they can try to better the neighborhoods from violence and crimes. Discussing about the dangerous neighborhoods would give Atlanta a bad reputation for violence so that’s probably one reason the Police department doesn’t want it to go public.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/06/atlanta-police-dispute-most-dangerous-neighborhoods-list/