I appreciate the effort, but even the FBI warns that their CDE data cannot be used to compare places because of the wide differences in the data supplied by the reporting entities. Their own website states that agencies in the National Incident-based Reporting System (NIBRS) covers 46% of the population of Georgia vs Tennessee's 100%. So the Georgia/Atlanta data is assumed to be undercounted in the FBI's CDE. That said, CBS (source cited here) can hardly be considered as reliable because they use FBI CDE figures exclusively. Also, I've never known a journalist to even understand statistics, much less use them correctly in a report. Not to mention the data cited is from 2019, and thus does not cover the noted spike in violent crime in the cities.
According to the AJC (via APD), Atlanta has murders up 58% and Nashville shows a rise of 41% based on local police data as reported in local media, and the Metro Nashville PD Annual Report for 2020. Property crimes have shot up even more sharply in Atlanta according to the GBI's website. On top of the obvious rise, the more troubling statistic is that the APD has lost a total of 221 officers in 2020. Nashville lost half that amount, and its population is 37% larger.
Crime is up everywhere, and that has much to do with the attacks on law enforcement officers. So let's not fool ourselves that "the other" is worse. Then we'll take our eyes off any hope of reversing the trend. This should serve as warning to all who love their cities. People may not voice their fear of crime, but they'll sure as heck move away from it. And no place illustrates this more than Buckhead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/atlanta...bs-11615467182
We're getting way off track of this thread, which was a wonderful walk through my beautiful "newish" hometown. You work on Atlanta and I'll work on Nashville. I hope our respective cities will be better for the effort, and the honesty we must share with each other.