[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Statistics released by the Atlanta Police Department show homicides are up 43% compared to the same time period in 2021
- Rapes are also up 236%, burglaries are up 18% and shoplifting cases are up 4%
- The increase in crime has led residents of Atlanta's wealthy Buckhead neighborhood to try to secede from the city
- The Buckhead City Committee wanted to create their own police department to fight the rising crime
- The efforts were quashed earlier this month when officials expressed their opposition to the secession efforts
- Meanwhile, Mayor Andre Dickens has pledged to fight the rising crime with new technology and more police officers
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