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The Champion, Thursday, October 22 - 28,2015
EDITORIAL
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More should be done to prevent crime at Austin Oaks
Crime is everywhere.
No matter what area—the man
sions of Buckhead or the trap houses
of “The Bluff”—some form of crime
will occur.
However, when crime is occur
ring too often in not just one neigh
borhood,-at one specific apartment
complex-something has to be done.
In 2008, DeKalb County Police
officers Eric Barker, 34, and Ricky
Bryant Jr., 26, were fatally shot while
working as security officers at the
Glenwood Gardens apartment com
plex as they approached a vehicle.
In 2013, 18-year-old Columbia
High School student Dominique
Boyer was shot to death at the same
complex two months before he was
scheduled to graduate from high
school. Boyer, according to detec
tives, was the unintended victim of a
gang-related drive-by shooting.
On Oct. 12, four people, includ
ing a baby, were shot at the same
complex, which is now called Austin
Oaks.
In addition to those three cases
there have been multiple shootings
and other crimes in and around that
apartment complex. Year to date,
there have been 55 crimes at or in
the area of that complex, according
to CrimeMapping.com. Of those 55
crimes, 28 were assault/gun-related
crimes.
Despite changing the name from
Glenwood Gardens to Austin Oaks
in 2013, that apartment complex
continues to be a location of violent
events.
Since the shooting of the two po
lice officers, it seems that not much
has been done to stop crime in that
area. The police department can only
do so much and provide the avail
able resources to stop the crime and
violence.
It is up to the people in that com
munity at large, the people who live
in the complex to clean it up. They
have to put forth the effort to come
together and address the ongoing
problems. If they don’t, no one else
will and the complex with continue
to be a crime hot-spot.
The name may change, but the
problems of that complex will re
main.
The next step to address the
crime may have to be demolishing
the complex.
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