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In 2023, Macon had the highest crime rate in Georgia: 52.6 crimes per 1,000 residents. [53] Gang activity is a major reason for the crime problem in Macon. [54] The Georgia Bureau of Investigation expanded its Gang Task Force Office to Macon in 2023. [55] As of 2024, crime has reduced in Macon compared to 2022 and 2023. [56] [57]
Statistics. From 1877 to 1950, ... Crime in Atlanta; Gangs in Georgia; Law of Georgia (U.S. state) References This page was last edited on 1 July ...
In the United States, the relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. [1] Crime rates vary significantly between racial groups; however, academic research indicates that the over-representation of some racial minorities in the criminal justice system can in part be explained by socioeconomic factors, [2] [3] such as ...
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The United States has passed some legislation to combat increasing violence against LGBTQ people. In the late 1990s, the Hate Crime Statistics Act (P.L. 101–275) was passed [17] to try to prevent further hate crimes and enhance criminal sentences for people who do commit them. While this act was passed more than 20 years ago, local police ...
Teen pregnancies do predominantly impact low income, Black communities in Macon. In 2022, 86% of the county’s 212 births involving mothers between 10 and 19 years old were Black, according to ...
The Macon metropolitan area is a metropolitan statistical area consisting of five counties in Central Georgia, anchored by the principal city of Macon. At the 2010 U.S. census, the five-county area had a population of 232,293. [3] A July 2017 estimate placed the population at 228,914. [4] In 2022, its estimated population was 235,805. [5]
Georgia is a South Atlantic U.S. state with a population of 10,711,908 according to the 2020 United States census, or just over 3% of the U.S. population.The majority of the state's population is concentrated within Metro Atlanta, although other highly populated regions include: West Central and East Central Georgia; West, Central, and East Georgia; and Coastal Georgia; and their Athens ...