Likesilan: "When you get robbed at the gas station or carjacked at store, or you get shot at, you start to say, what is going on? We start to feel like we're living in a war zone" The data shows that between 20 19 and 20 21, the murder rate did go up in buckhead. It also went up in the rest of atlanta. Likesilan says he doesn't even believe the data that the atlanta police department provides.
In her Today, Explained debut, co-host Noel King heads to Atlanta to find out why some people in one of its wealthiest neighborhoods are trying to secede from the rest of the city.
This episode was reported by Noel King and produced by Miles Bryan, with editing by Sean Rameswaram, fact-checking by Laura Bullard and Richard Sima, and engineering by Efim Shapiro.
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