It happened again today in Atlanta yesterday, breaking in of the front door, loud noises, no alarm, breaking glass, voices. Another Fulton County home invasion. One person trapped and the other jumped 15 feet to the ground and later was recovering at the hospital from the stomach injury caused from the jump. You would think that home invasion in Atlanta was a rare event. Unfortunately home invasion happens more often than you realize.
To report on every home invasion or criminal act in Atlanta these days would take a 24 hour a day news channel. In just one search report from 11 Alive News, we turned up these several. Let's just look through the titles.
- Northwest Atlanta Home Invasion: 1 Killed, July 23, 2009 (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Police Seeking Home Invasion Suspect, July 15, 2009 (Mableton, Georgia)
- Austell Home Invasion Suspect Caught After Chase, Shooting, July 11, 2009 (Austell, Georgia)
- Loganville Home Invasion Victim Dies of Her Injuries, Jun 24, 2009 (Loganville, Georgia)
- Arrest Make in Sharpsburg Home Invasion, The Citizen Online (Sharpsburg, Georgia)
- Drugs May Have Played a Role In Home Invasion, July 22, 2009 (Cherokee County)
The actual statistics from the FBI list Atlanta as having over 38,000 reported property crimes. According to Wikipedia, the land mass of Fulton County is 535 square miles. If my math is correct that is 1.5 property crimes per mile/per week! An eye opening piece of information is the cityrating.com that shows Atlanta at TWICE the national average and murder is almost 5 times the national average!
According to the United States Department of Justice, 38 % of all assaults and 60% of all rapes occur during a home invasion. The New Violent Crime Report from Department of Justice dated 3/16/2009 states "violent crime rate in the United States was largely unchanged from 2005 to 2007, but that there was a 25 percent increase in rape and sexual assault over those two years." Are you kidding me? Congratulations goes out to a government agency that can finally get the report out for 2007 two years after the year ends! It must be the "change" coming to Washington!
It makes me angry just to think that they might try to justify the statistics as "unchanged". If you were the victim of a home invasion rape would you say that crime was up or down? One home invasion is one too many. Rottweiler takes very serious the roll we take in the prevention of home invasion. We could not help these people this morning and for that matter neither could anyone else. Should it happen to you your planning for it this type of event may save your life.
Save your life and maybe your families, get a security system today.
