I was just waiting for it, and was not disappointed... the perp was a black male. Anyone surprised?

Seems the city "too busy to hate" has a little more time on its hands of late.

FYI the perpetrators didn't commit this act because of their skin color but because they are criminals.

James, you are committing a twist of logic. No one has made the claim that the perps committed the crime BECAUSE of their skin color. Likewise, no one claimed that ALL black people commit crimes. But, the fact is that almost all the crime committed in Midtown is by black males. And I think we (everyone, not angry white men or some other category you may try to assign us) have no more patience for it.

They're organizing -- a wig, a plan, a crew. Time to break this up.

I just picture Marc sitting in a dimly lit room, chain smoking cheap cigarettes with the butts piled up beside him and hitting refresh on his browser. He lives for this.

His name is Marc Acampora which strangely sounds like a hispanic name. Marc show us your papers.

Bottom line is there isn't enough Obamacare planned parenthood clinics in needed areas like Boulevard. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act tubal ligations are covered, so is birth control and the morning after pill so you see even Obama agrees no Tyrone, no crime. Thanks Obama!

Gee, I love our glorious leader. Keep voting blue people! If we're lucky maybe one day we can ride carousel when we're 30.

I want more comments attacking Marc and defending the perps. What's wrong with u people?

Vianen, Marty, Trollie, Ikeahacker, your vitriol against your neighbor (me), and the ignorance of your comments, are pathetic and sad. Further, ad hominem attacks on me do nothing to support your opinions on the matter, and, in fact, none of you even offered opinions on the crime issue, you just came here to attack me. I'll make my position very clear, again. I am utterly disgusted and fed up with the crime in our neighborhood. We are not animals and I refuse to live like such. We hear of violent crimes on our neighbors reported nearly every single day. They are almost always committed by young black males. That is a fact. That is who is committing the crime. I don't know the solution to the problem, and apparently neither do any of you, nor do the police. But, one step in putting an end to the problem is to identify the problem. You can be ignorant, you can bury your head in the sand, you can sing Kumbaya and hope for world peace, you can play the race card and insult anyone who points out the problem, you can come here and call names, but that ignorant crap will not change any of the facts, it will not stop me from pointing out those facts, and it will do nothing toward finding a solution to the crime problem in our neighborhood.

Pointing out the perpetrators are black doesn't provide any insight. Its a black city. in Seattle the crimes are committed by whites. We are in the city that is 60 percent black. we are also in the city that house is large pocket of poor people. Its a recipe for disaster. so I guess the point is Mark we got it. you live in a black city that has a large number of poor people that live in the city centre that are disproportionately black...get over it.

we are waiting for you to offer insight beyond oh hes black...duh we already know.

In China the crimes are committed by people of Chinese decent. In Boise, Idaho the crimes are committed by whites. You think that you are showing some pattern, some revelation. You aren't. You are stating the obvious. Let's just do this...we know for the next 6 months if any crimes are committed in Midtown they will probably be committed by black men....based on the demographics of the city so you can stop providing us this information. Why don't you tell us when a crime is committed by a white man this would be more interesting.

I would like to point out something about Marc's chronic comments about the racial make-up of Midtown criminals.

I just did a quick audit of the MPSA website (www.midtownponce.org) and compiled a list of 47 named criminals from MPSA communications in the last four years. Of those, only 20 of those are black, and one is Asian. The majority of criminals named in MPSA public communications are white. I may have missed one or two, but that would not impact the breakdown much if any. If you want to check it out yourself just do a search for "street criminals" or "court watch" on the MPSA website.

I also manage MPSA's research and tracking of street criminals appearing with some regularity in the neighborhood, and have indexed almost 300 unique criminal individuals. The break-down among those is roughly half and half. This is a ballpark figure since we do not record race in the files we keep. I would be willing to bet that a systematic computation of breakdown would turn out to be somewhere around 55% white and 45% black or other. Again, we find that race is irrelevant in the criminal and nuisance activity we have been dealing with over the last ten years.

Can someone please recommend a good real estate agent dealing with property OTP for Marc?

@J.Dean... Curious as to what the rape statistics are for white males against white females? Any idea? You seem to view crime only through the prism of race. This is a complete flaw in your thinking. Your perspective only perpetuate viscous stereotypes and the out dated view that it's only black males who commit rapes against white women. According to most rape statistics in America, all women regardless of race are more likely to be raped by an acquaintance, date raped, or perhaps even raped or assaulted by close family member. The instances of women being randomly abducted from the bus stop are very rare and in most cases nothing more than anomalies sensationalized by crime obsessed local news stations and national media outlets striving for ratings. When it comes to street crime, random rape, or any violent crime in Atlanta, local news stations constantly brainwash the general public by reporting the same sensationalized news story over and over again. Ex, the most popular local news format in Atlanta is to lead the broadcast with a crime related "Top News Story", then launch into a never ending bombardment of the same crime story at 4:30 pm, 5 pm, 5:30 pm, 6 pm, and so on. This type of repetitive crime reporting and media sensationalism keeps you, Marc, and others in a constant state of fear, confusion, and anger. Wake up!!!! Get out and experience life. Befriend people who are different from you. I'm sure you'll find that most people regardless of race are great people.

When you still have large pockets of poverty inside of a city that has us - the condo, home and w2 wage earners it creates diversity...lol

This diversity will filter into and touch our lives in the form of vagrancy, crime, homelessness. We cant 'gate' it out of our lives

As long as there is boulevards, bankhead,.swats, 4th.ward, parts of east atlanta all.circling around us it can spill into our lives. Eliminating the projects helped but there are still large concentrations of crime in and around preferred nabes.

The problem is the revolving door of fulton county that ALLOWS these criminals to continue to walk the streets and markets this as.a destination for crime in comparison to other counties.

Come here commit crime and make bail.

Most of the crime in this city is black-on-black.

@Dookie Doo - The problem is not the police although APD needs alot more officers around. A major part of the problem lies in the Fulton County courts. We have judges turning criminals back into the community despite having been arrested and convicted 20, 30, or even 40 times. Too many criminals are given probation to run concurrently with existing probation. You should see some of the criminals we write about at the MPSA website, for example this one: http://www.midtownponce.org/p2282.html

In many jurisdictions it is not even possible to get arrested more than three or four times on felony charges - they would finish you off very early on as needed. And in this example the offender has since then been arrested for breaking into cars. As an update to this example Coleman was locked up again last year for breaking into cars. He was sentenced to "drug court", with probation sentence running concurrently with probation for previous burglary in same neighborhood. He's back out on the streets somewhere, and at some point this throw-away will be recycled through the Fulton County court again for the umpteenth time. He's been in prison before but Fulton judges keep sentencing criminals like this with increasing leniency with each new felony...

Young black males commit most of the crime in Midtown. It's disproportionately high. It's irrefutable. We get it. So what? If there's a young black male walking down the street toward me, I'm a lot more cautious. However, I know too many really nice, smart, motivated young black males to make any broader generalizations. By the way, I bet 99% of the crime in Midtown is committed by males. Should we start there?

We don't need more officers when need different policing. Watch how these young black men talk about how they won't get caught and boast about selling illegal alcohol and drugs on camera in downtown Atlanta. In one link many of the men have been arrested multiple times for drug crimes and are being asked to leave the property for criminal trespassing. Look how arrogant and brazen their attitudes are.

No one enforced criminal trespassing and they are allowed to hang out all day and night and sell drugs in downtown Atlanta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SQ2VXlU56w&list=PLHaAwqUl7Jjhqz8DEdzORi5AN--7NrTfx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRomLX5ehGg&list=PLHaAwqUl7Jjgf_UCcwy2iIlbBokPliYzT

Sorry, the only answer is on the front end. Once these kids drop out of school, fall under the sway of elder neighborhood roughs and embark down the road of crime and become permanently unemployable they will be a drag on society to the grave - taxing police resources, court resources, hospital resources and dragging down entire neighborhoods.

I'm not talking about white guilt or 60s war on poverty, but until we do something to show these kids that another way of life is possible - BEFORE they become felons - and get a high school diploma. I live near 3 senior centers. I am unaware of any youth centers where kids can go to get help with homework and nuture interests in things like computers, music or the world in general.

I live in the O4W and have met a few young kids from Bedford Pines. I can tell you that at a certain age, they are just like any other kids - nice, curious and kids. Something happens between that age and becoming teenagers.

You can call for harsher sentences, zero tolerance policing and more police, but, all of that is on the back end. What we need is a generation of kids that make better decisions when they are at that fork in the road, and know that when they are older, they will go back into 'hood and raise up the next generation.

I know that is not what some of you want to hear, but that is my take on the situation. You can pay for police, jail and hospitals, or you can staff youth centers with edu student mentors from AU, GSU, GT and Emory.

@amber bandicoot Marc no longer needs to say that it is a young blackhood rat male sbecause we already know it will be. The city does , other black people do and the judges do also so just let it rest and move on. Who cares what they look like? We need to focus on writing a city officials the judges and voting in new leadership on the City Council.

I know Marc hopes that his insight will bring some with changes and all black men will be sent to some island off the coast of Tahiti but it's not going to happen.

Hard work is required to change the situation not flippant obvious comments about he committs the crimes.

I will repeat. write the City Council , write the mayor , write the AJC, organize other neighborhoods....blah blah blah. Everyone is a victim of crime regardless of race. We are all Americans and victims.