[mac_truck]

A few posts ago you were claiming that most southerners did not consider Atlanta to be part of the south. Now you want to take credit for Atlanta's improving crime rate. Is that it?.

While I am glad to hear that the crime rate there is improving, you have not demonstrated any lesson that New Yorkers could possibly learn from you, beyond how to deseminate like a Clintonista.

[4CJ]

A few posts ago you were claiming that most southerners did not consider Atlanta to be part of the south. Now you want to take credit for Atlanta's improving crime rate. Is that it?.

Nope. The folks I know in Georgia, from various parts of the state, do not consider Atlanta to be Southern. It's Atlanta and the rest of the state. Right or wrong, that's the mentality.

Secondly, no one is laying claim to Atlanta's "improving" crime rate - simply an observation about how statistics can make things sound wonderful. Take two cities, one with an increase in the murder rate of 100%, another with a decrease of 5%. Which is safer? If the first had only 1 muder in year 1, and 2 in the second, the rate did increase 100%. In the second city, if it had 1000 in year one, and 995 in year two, the rate did decrease 5%.

The question is, in which city would you feel that your family is safer?