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Lindbergh beat had most violent crime in 2012
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The highlighted portion of this map
shows police Beat 211 in Zone 2. Beat
211, which includes Peachtree Hills and
Peachtree Park, reported 47 violent crimes
in 2012, the most in Zone 2. For a larger
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in the past been reluctant to report
crimes to police. Hobbs said the APD
has worked to assure residents that po
lice officers are there to protect them,
not check their immigration status.
“We’re reaching out to that commu
nity and saying, ‘Hey, if there’s a crime,
if there’s an issue, if there’s a problem, we
need to know about it because we’ll be
here to help you,”’ Hobbs said.
Under Georgia law, police have the
option to investigate someone’s immi
gration status. Hobbs said officers won’t
check someone’s immigration status un
less they have a reason to suspect that a
person is living in the U.S. illegally.
According to 2010 U.S. Census Data,
16 percent of the population within the
30324 ZIP code, which includes the
Lindbergh/Morosgo area, identifies as
Hispanic.
Zone 2 is divided into 13 distinct po
lice beats. The police beat encompass
ing Lindbergh/Morosgo, Beat 211, in
cludes the neighborhoods of Peachtree
Park and Peachtree Hills. In 2012, Beat
211 residents reported 47 violent crimes
to Atlanta Police, the most of any of
the beats in Zone 2. Among the violent
crimes reported, there were reports of
one rape, 30 robberies and 16 aggravat
ed assaults.
“We believe the more you
report crimes, the more
coverage will happen. We
definitely ask our neigh
bors to report when any
thing happens like that.”
-HANS BENDECK
PEACHTREE HILLS CIVIC
ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
That number is up from 2011, when
residents living in that beat reported 41
violent crimes, including four rapes.
Hobbs said he’s spent several Sunday
afternoons doing community outreach,
telling residents that traffic checkpoints
aren’t a ruse to investigate stopped driv
ers’ immigration status.
“We started seeing some of them
coming forward that we normally
wouldn’t have in the past,” Hobbs said.
Attempts to reach out to groups ad
vocating for Hispanic residents for com
ment were not successful prior to the
Buckhead Reporter’s publication dead
line.
In 2012, all crimes in Zone 2 rose
by 8 percent over 2011 be
cause of property crimes, spe
cifically a 27 percent increase in
thefts from autos. Zone 2 was
the only zone in the city that
reported an overall increase in
crime for 2012.
Atlanta police annual
ly release data about all Part 1
crimes, the most serious crimes.
They are the offenses police are
most likely to know about as
they are the crimes most likely
to be reported. Violent crimes
included among Part 1 crimes
are homicide, rape, robbery
and aggravated assault.
Buckhead had no homi
cides in 2012, and Zone 2 had
the fewest violent crimes in the
city.
Neighborhood representa
tives with Peachtree Park and
Peachtree Hills said they were
unaware that the beat around
their communities dominat
ed the violent crime reporting in 2012.
They said their biggest problem is prop
erty crime.
Hans Bendeck, president of the
Peachtree Hills Civic Association, said
the neighborhood hires off-duty Atlan
ta police officers to patrol the neigh
borhood. Bendeck said residents in the
neighborhood are encouraged to report
anything they see.
“We believe the more you report
crimes, the more coverage will happen,”
Bendeck said. “We definitely ask our
neighbors to report when anything hap
pens like that.”
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