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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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Atlanta 64 37 rain
Augusta 71 45 rain
Bainbridge 81 47 rain
Brunswick 78 52 rain
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Columbus 72 43 rain
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Chicago 41 25 mst sunny
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Dillard 60 28 pt sunny
Dublin 77 41 rain
Duluth 63 35 rain
Gainesville 64 39 rain
Helen 63 34 rain
Lagrange 67 37 rain
Macon 72 41 rain
Marietta 63 35 rain
Milledgeville 74 42 rain
Houston . 7 0 52 ram
Los Angeles 75 56 pt sunny
Miami 84 72 t-storm
Minneapolis 37 22 cloudy
New York 55 37 pt sunny
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Perry 75 42 rain
Rome 63 34 pt sunny
Savannah 79 46 rain
St. Simons Island7B 52 rain
Statesboro 81 46 rain
Thomasville 82 48 rain
Valdosta 82 48 rain
Warner Robins 74 42 rain
Waycross 82 46 rain
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Phoenix 85 61 mst sunny
San Francisco 65 55 rain
Seattle 51 50 rain
St. Louis 51 28 sunny
Washington, DC 55 36 pt sunny
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2006 ♦
Atlanta pleased with crime
ranking, but Macon has doubts
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta
police are pleased with the
city’s improved ranking in
violent crime in a recently
released annual list.
Meanwhile, officials in
Macon expressed skepticism
about their city’s ranking on
the list.
The rankings are based on
an annual list of the nation’s
safest and most dangerous
cities compiled by Morgan
Quitno Press. Atlanta fell to
the 17th most dangerous city
in nation after being ranked
seventh in last year’s list.
Atlanta Police Chief
Richard Pennington credited
the improvement to better
policing strategies.
“Even 17th is too high for
a city like this,” Pennington
said. “We’re going to work
extremely hard to take us
out of the top 20.”
During his tenure, the
Atlanta Police Department
has increased foot patrols
downtown, put surveil
lance cameras in the city’s
Buckhead and Midtown
areas, improved its speed
in apprehending criminals,
boosted its use of crime map
ping and made commanders
more accountable for crime
reduction, Pennington said.
The department also is focus
ing more on smaller crimes,
such as aggressive panhan
dling and disorderly conduct,
that can lead to more serious
crimes, Pennington said.
“It’s not over yet,”
Pennington said. “We’re
going to keep pushing, but
it’s a big accomplishment.”
But Macon officials cast
doubt Monday on the report,
which ranked Macon as the
40th most dangerous city
in the country. And nation
wide, among cities with pop
ulations between 75,000 and
100,000, the report ranks
Macon the eighth most dan
gerous city.
“We go through this
every single year,” said
Macon police Sgt. Melanie
Hofmann, the department’s
spokeswoman. “It’s pretty
much a propaganda thing.”
Pluggingjnto its formula a
city’s FBI statistics, Morgan
Quitno measures how a city
compares to the national
average in six crime catego
ries: murder, rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, burglary
and motor vehicle theft. The
outcome of that equation
is multiplied by an equal
weight assigned to each of
the categories. The numbers
produced by each category
are added together to pro
duce a final score.
But the problem with the
study’s method is in its equal
weighting, Macon police say
That means that a lawn
mower stolen from some
one’s yard is assigned the
same weight as a murder. By
that rationale, Macon Police
Chief Mike Burns suggested
in an e-mail, the city could
have 100 more murders and
150 fewer auto thefts and be
classified as a safer city.
“As long as I am chief, I am
going to report all our crimes
accurately so we really know
what is going on in our city,”
Burns said.
Morgan Quitno Press
acknowledges that the FBI,
police and criminologists
caution against rankings
according to crime rate. But
the company argues that
the rankings tell a “very
important story” about the
incidence of crime in the
country.
Atlanta was ranked the
most dangerous city in
Georgia, with Macon in sec
ond place. Those cities are fol
lowed by Albany, Savannah,
Columbus, Athens and
Roswell. Augusta is not in
the report because its crime
statistics were not reported
to the FBI, according to the
company
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