{"id":1864784,"date":"2023-03-01T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864784"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:04:29","slug":"were-a-target-for-criminals-atlanta-neighborhood-pushes-to-secede-from-city-over-rampant-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-a-target-for-criminals-atlanta-neighborhood-pushes-to-secede-from-city-over-rampant-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re a Target for Criminals&#8217;: Atlanta Neighborhood Pushes To Secede From City Over Rampant Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-a-target-for-criminals-atlanta-neighborhood-pushes-to-secede-from-city-over-rampant-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864784&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>One wealthy suburb of Atlanta is seeking to seize control from the Democratic-run City, pointing out record levels in violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>Buckhead, Atlanta&#8217;s wealthiest suburban, wants to secede from the city and become its own municipality, according to The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/01\/atlantas-wealthiest-suburb-eyes-seceding-from-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Wednesday. Two bills passed by state and local Republican legislators sent the Buckhead City plan to the full state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Randy Robertson (R.), the sponsor of the proposal, criticised elected officials in the city. &#8220;forget who they work for.&#8221; Residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/buckhead-city-bills-take-major-step-forward-in-georgia-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Say it<\/a> Failure to lead is the reason for the crime surge in the city, which has reached the suburbs located miles north.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Buckhead is a target. We&#8217;re a target for criminals in the city, and Atlanta has not been able to protect us,&#8221; One resident agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Buckhead last year saw 10 homicides, 22 rapes, 211 aggravated assaults, and 238 burglaries and breaking-and-entering cases, according to a report of crime statistics from TV station\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/verify\/verify-crime-atlanta-buckhead-neighborhood\/85-a040e6a7-4c1d-4e38-adcb-b822ccbc6f99#:~:text=A%20Cobra%20Report%20from%20APD&#039;s,there%20were%2029%20reported%20rapes.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 Live!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who are wealthier want to leave the Democratic city. This is part a larger trend throughout the country, with families and businesses moving away from blue states that have high levels of crime and high living expenses. California&#8217;s population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/stuart-varney-california-exodus-costing-formerly-golden-state-billions-amid-sharp-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plummeted<\/a> By more than half of a million between 2020-2022 For high taxes and high house prices, residents are moving to more financially friendly states like Texas and Florida. In 2021, 8 per cent of taxpayers will have more than $25,000,000 in income. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11786225\/New-Yorks-millionaire-exodus-1-453-taxpayers-earning-25M-fled-state-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Democrats are opposed to Buckhead&#8217;s bid to be independent of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I voted against the &#8216;Buckhead City&#8217; bills, which the majority of my constituents oppose and which threaten the stability of our education, public safety, transportation, and financial systems statewide,&#8221; Jason Esteves (Democratic state senator)<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/illegals-voting-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=202303dcvoting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/illegals-voting-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=202303dcvoting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens (D.) is &#8220;disappointed by the committee&#8217;s vote to advance this short-sighted legislation&#8221; And <a href=\"https:\/\/newschannel9.com\/news\/local\/bill-that-could-let-buckhead-split-from-atlanta-advances-secede-secession-georgia-senate-bill-113-114-andre-dickens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claim<\/a>\u00a0A spokesman for the city stated that they are working to reduce crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy suburb of Atlanta is seeking secession from the Democratic-run city, pointing to record spikes in violent crime.<br \/>\nThe post &#8216;We&#8217;re a Target for Criminals&#8217;: Atlanta Neighborhood Pushes To Secede From City Over Rampant Crime appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1864787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9584,5269,7204,11994,19489,3700,20070,20069,4650,4419],"class_list":["post-1864784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-atlanta","tag-city","tag-crime","tag-criminals","tag-neighborhood","tag-pushes","tag-rampant","tag-secede","tag-target","tag-were"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}