Henry County Crime Increase

Hi there at the Henry County Community News Blog.  I am Richard Marks of Rockdale County and have been watching the events over in Henry County.  I have done an extensive study of the crime in your county.  It is very apparent that 62.45% of the crimes that are committed are by African Americans.  Most of the violent felony crimes are committed by them.  This is a dramatic increase since 2005 when at that time 45.6% of the crimes were committed by African Americans.  I am an African American myself and I see a horrible trend here.  Families need to become more active in what is happening to their youngsters since gangs and other problems such as drugs are so prevalent in the community today.  I have watched as the northern section of the county has become more and more in line with these types of crimes.  Home burglaries, thefts, robbery and even some other heinous crimes.  As a community that has shifted more to the African American’s you can do
 better.  This is beginning to spill into Rockdale County.  If this trend continues then the area will become more blighted like what happened in Detroit.  I am afraid not for myself, but for my grandchildren as they will have to live in this turmoil.  There have been some in both the white and black communities who have tried to put a wedge in between the races and cause more trouble.  It is evident if you just look around at what is happening under your noses.  It shouldn’t be left up to some community organization, police or government to correct this problem it must begin at home.  But woefully many of those who have children in crime are criminals themselves.  The children are just living the lifestyles of the parents.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in 1967 that in order to have better relations that we must do better ourselves.

Richard Marks, Rockdale County

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