I'm not racist, I just have a question: (Atlanta, Perry: real estate, apartments)

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by aries4118

There were no facts interjected, mouthgeorgia...just a lame AJC article that didn't support his outlandish claims. But you're another one that doesn't understand the difference...

[Merin]

It depends on who is actually moving to these counties, regardless of race. If there is huge influx of lower income people then yes it will decline.

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

There were no facts interjected, mouthgeorgia...just a lame AJC article that didn't support his outlandish claims. But you're another one that doesn't understand the difference...

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[stevenseeks]

do we know who are the primary bunch in our jails,and nationaly in prisons check out NIP,NIJ,etc
it is those same ones who like to come to a predominately one particular race area and block bust,ultimately destroying the area.
NO NOT ALL OF THEM JUST ENOUGH OF THEM.

[terrence81]

I don't know. While crime is always a horrible thing. Two murders for a county with like 180,000 people is not that bad. Sounds extremely safe. Columbus, GA which is about the same size and has more crime in one month than Henry county has in one year. Yet me and family are doing okay. Again I'm not going to say that those lives taken and affected are not tragic just that I wouldn't get too alarmed. Also one might ask how many of these violent crimes were domestic disputes.

Why bring race into at all? Black folks dislike crime just as much as white folks.

So what is the solution? What do think should be done to make Henry county better?

[LovinDecatur]

Henry County is a pretty big county. I wouldn't be so quick to write the entire county off by what might be happening in part of it.
I see posters do this to DeKalb County quite often.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

Henry County is a pretty big county. I wouldn't be so quick to write the entire county off by what might be happening in part of it.
I see posters do this to DeKalb County quite often.

Exactly. Part of Clayton's problem is that it is so small.

Henry is developing like Cobb, Gwinnett, and DeKalb...a big county with vastly different parts.

Think about it...

1. There's the Dutchtown area which has the most potential of being Claytonesque.

2. You have already-developed Stockbridge...a mix of country-white, new black, and middle-class folk.

3. You have Fairview in the north...which is emerging as an upper-middle/middle class black area a la its neighbor to the north...South DeKalb.

4. You have Hampton...which is more like Spalding and Griffin.

5. Old town McDonough.

6. Eagle's Landing...a miniature Peachtree City.

7. Upper-Middle Class West Henry...Union Grove Area.

8. South Henry (Ola, Locust Grove, etc.)

[Windu]

Originally Posted by stevenseeks

do we know who are the primary bunch in our jails,and nationaly in prisons check out NIP,NIJ,etc
it is those same ones who like to come to a predominately one particular race area and block bust,ultimately destroying the area.
NO NOT ALL OF THEM JUST ENOUGH OF THEM.

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Obsessed with race.

[jeffreda30238]

Let me first say this. I am an African American woman, and I have lived in Clayton County since 94' and crime HAS shot up. People, let's be realistic and call it what it is. We got public transportation, which was a contributing factor in my opinion, and bc it is inexpensive to live on the southside, the Atlanta transplants moved south. I see why Gwinette is so DEAD SET AGAINST public transportation...I mean look what happened to Clayton County. Every time I turn on the news now, something has happened in Clayton county. So call a spade a spade. Henry County is going down too. The more they push out from the city, the more the others push out from them, so on and so on. No need to tip toe around this issue because it's all truth and no fiction for me.

[south-to-west]

Originally Posted by jeffreda30238

Let me first say this. I am an African American woman, and I have lived in Clayton County since 94' and crime HAS shot up. People, let's be realistic and call it what it is. We got public transportation, which was a contributing factor in my opinion, and bc it is inexpensive to live on the southside, the Atlanta transplants moved south. I see why Gwinette is so DEAD SET AGAINST public transportation...I mean look what happened to Clayton County. Every time I turn on the news now, something has happened in Clayton county. So call a spade a spade. Henry County is going down too. The more they push out from the city, the more the others push out from them, so on and so on. No need to tip toe around this issue because it's all truth and no fiction for me.

You are grossly misinformed. Crime was shooting up in Gwinnett even before they had public transport. Also, crime has been skyrocketing in Clayton since before they implemented C-Tran. Public transport doesn't have a damn thing to do with the increase in crime and it's that type of scare-mongering and thinking that led our metro area to be in the congested mess that it's in now.

One of the reasons that crime has been increase in Clayton County is that the country has absorbed a lot of the displaced households from the old Atlanta housing projects that have been renovated and redeveloped like Techwood (Centennial Place) and Perry Homes (West Highlands). Clayton County had an oversaturation of lower-priced apartments and renter-occupied single-family homes that was able to meet the new demand of many of the displaced households. Unfortunately a portion of the displaced households were barred from moving back to the redeveloped Atlanta Housing Authority communities due to prior criminal records.

Another aspect contributing to the rise in crime in Clayton has been the massive layoffs in manufacturing--especially the Ford Hapeville plant. There is a correlation between economic downturns and crime waves.

And for some of you who think that you can predict the liklihood of someone being a criminal based on their skin color--you can kiss my natural black ass. I've never been arrested and I don't have a record. Even moreso, I know plenty of white people who've been arrested, so don't bring your ignorant opinion here.