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Carrollton’s violent crime rate per 1,000 is 28.84; Douglasville, 9.13; Newnan, 5.65
by Carole Scott
On Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 2:05 AM
a violent incident took place on the Square in
Carrollton. A Fight that started at the Irish
Bred Pub spilled out the front door and was
spotted by a Carrollton Police Officer at
nearby Plates. By the time the officer got
there, the victim, 29-year-old Ian
Fitchpatrick of Carrollton, had been stabbed
14 times with a short-bladed knife. His
injuries were not life threatening. The
suspect, Blake David Wilbanks, a 28 year-
old from Covington, ran away on foot down
Bradley Street, where he was apprehended.
Blake was charged with aggravated assault,
obstruction of an officer, and criminal
trespass. The last charge arose out of the fact
that he collided with and damaged a car
while running away.
Another fight on the square that resulted
in a serious injury took place on Sunday,
August 22, 2010 at 2:30 a.m. Matthew
Lawrence, 21, of Temple was hit one time
and was seriously injured when he fell and
hit his head. As a result of the blow to his
head, Lawrence had blood on his brain.
Arrested as a result and charged with
aggregated battery was Dustin Morgan, 21,
of Carrollton. Lawrence, who is now in a
wheelchair, is back home trying to learn to
walk and talk again.
The district attorney has decided to no bill
a case arising out of a 2009 fight that took
place on the square because the injured man,
who suffered a serious eye injury, was the
one who started the fight during which he
was injured.
Carrollton police Captain Chris Dobbs
says that plans are being made to post more
officers at the square during the times when
such incidents as those described above are
most likely to take place.
Since these incidents, the city has stepped
up police coverage on the square after
midnight on weekends.
According to a study done by
Walletpop.com, the City of Carrollton’s
violent crime rate per 1,000 is 28.84. By
comparison, the City of Newnan’s is 5.65;
City of Douglasville 9.13; and City of
Fairbum 1.58.
The rate for the state as a whole is 4.97.
Data by neighborhood is available only to
subscribers.
Unavailable, too, is any data for the other
cities in Carroll County.
However, data for individual Atlanta
neighborhoods is available.
An Atlanta neighborhood at the
northeastern edge of the Atlanta University
Center (in ZIP codes 30313 and 30314) is
the 5th most dangerous neighborhood in the
United States. Its violent crime rate per
1,000 is 126.77. The 7th most dangerous
neighborhood is also in Atlanta. Located just
south of the Georgia Tech campus and
including the Centennial Olympic Park (in
ZIP codes 30314 and 30303), its violent
crime rate per 1,000 is 114.18. At four,
Atlanta has more neighborhoods in the 25
most dangerous neighborhoods in the
country than does any other city. The fact
that a city has some neighborhoods where
the crime rate is relatively high does not
mean that it has no relatively safe
neighborhoods.
Coming in at number 17, is an Atlanta
neighborhood where there is an intersection
of Pryor Street and Ralph David Abernathy
Professional
Boulevard (in ZIPs 30303 and 30312 ). Its
violent crime rate per 1,000 is 94.94.
Coming in at number 22 is £
neighborhood on whose northwestern bordei
is an intersection of Glenn Street and Ralph
David Abernathy Boulevard (in ZIP code
3010). Its violent crime rate per 1,000 is
82.96.
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