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  2. College Park, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    College Park is a city in Fulton and Clayton counties, Georgia, United States, adjacent to the southern boundary of the city of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,930. Georgia International Convention Center and part of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport are located in the city.

  3. Crime in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Crime in Atlanta, Georgia is above the national median and has been a major problem for the city since the middle 20th century. Atlanta’s public safety improvement between 2001 and 2009 occurred at more than twice the rate of the rest of the country. [2] After ranking in the top five highest violent crime cities for most of the previous three ...

  4. Gangs in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Many gangs started appearing in Georgia in the mid 1980s, as a result of the crack cocaine epidemic. [1] In 2003, there were an estimated 78 gangs in the Atlanta area alone. In 2015, Atlanta police announced that they were tracking an estimated 192 gangs. [2] In more recent times, Mexican drug cartels have established Atlanta as a major ...

  5. Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The Carver Community housing project (aka "Carver Homes") in southeast Atlanta was finished on February 17, 1953, [2] costing $8.6 million and consisting of 990 units for African-Americans. [4] Named for George Washington Carver, the project was located near Joyland, an amusement park for black Atlantans. The project was demolished in 2000 and ...

  6. College crime is rising nationally. Here's what it means at ...

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    The number of criminal offenses in 2021 fell to 92, but in 2022, the most recent year data is available for, the total had risen to 99. In 2020, there were 30,559 students enrolled at UT ...

  7. Demographics of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Atlanta. Atlanta is the capital and largest city in the state of Georgia. Atlanta ranks as the 38th-largest in the United States, and the eighth-largest city in the southeastern region. 2020 census results varied dramatically with previous Census Bureau estimates, counting 498,715 residents.

  8. Data shows crime is on the rise at college campuses. How that ...

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    Rin Velasco, Wicked Local. April 20, 2024 at 5:27 AM. After dropping during the pandemic, government data shows that the number of crimes reported by college campuses across the country in 2022 ...

  9. Gentrification of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Gentrification by area Street scene in Cabbagetown Ponce City Market, being repurposed for mixed use in Old Fourth Ward Southeast Atlanta. Many of Atlanta's neighborhoods experienced massive white flight that affected other major American cities in the 20th century, causing the decline of once upper and upper-middle-class southeast Atlanta neighborhoods including Grant Park, Inman Park ...