According to the new edition of "City Crime Rankings", published by Morgan Quinto Press, the city of Atlanta have the highest
violent crime rate in the United States in 2000 with approximately 2,743 violent crimes.
Morgan Quinto Press publishes books on different types of
rankings in the U.S., particularly crimes. The report provides updated crime statistics on more than 260 of America's metropolitan areas and 335 cities with a population of 75,000 of more.
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By Ellen Barry, Los Angeles Times
ATLANTA — Chief Richard Pennington, releasing an audit of police practices Friday, warned that Atlanta is the most dangerous city in America and criticized his department for routinely underreporting crime.
The independent report covers the years prior to Atlanta's 1996 Summer Olympics through Pennington's tenure as chief, which began in 2002. It described "a broken police department" that, during a period when officials here were concerned about the city's image as a tourist destination, discarded crime records and improperly closed cases.
The city of Atlanta has a murder rate 520% higher than the national average, the report found, and residents — especially African Americans — are more likely to be victims of violent crime than are residents of Washington, D.C., Detroit, Chicago or Los Angeles.
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