Seems like the same guys were involved in all three robberies. Let's get these guys off the streets!

Don't waste time calling Midtown Blue, seriously a bunch of idiots! I've called them several times and they never respond. I always walk my dog by there and the only thing their trucks are good for is to take up spots meant for the public!! I hope more people noticed that?? It's hard enough to find the number to call but then to explain the situation to someone over there is brain numbing!

black males... am I detecting a pattern here?

These a**holes are getting bolder and bolder, right in the middle of the so-called Midtown Mile (or whatever they call it) on Peachtree.for god's sake. This is getting way, way out of control. Mayor Reed, step up and do your job. Fix this!!!

The fun continues. I'm sure some will argue that you should not be out at 4:45 at night, but some people have to work that early. Sucks getting jacked up on your way to work.

Just when you hear of a big bust, like the carjacking a-holes recently, a new set of thugs comes out to terrorize the city. There is an endless supply being raised by single moms in poverty. And we all suffer from it.

who are all these people out randomly between 4 and 5 in the morning?

Time to start defending ourselves. Police are too busy giving tickets to increase city revenue to fund the 52% raise to city council. concealed carry...maybe when these thugs start getting shot something mag change.

Get these degenerates off the streets - this is enough already!

In communicating with the police, the vehicle is believed to be a dark red Ford Taurus and as one might expect, APD believes that each of the robberies are connected. Sounds like authorities might have some good leads, but if you do see a vehicle that matches this description or similar in the neighborhood, especially late at night, please call 911 so the police can investigate.

This type of stuff happening in the so called best area of any other city would get major press coverage but in Atlanta discussing crime is a taboo topic due to the racial component.
Meanwhile Kasim Reed fiddles (stadium) as Atlanta burns (crime).

Yes, we musn't hurt anyone's feelings or self esteem. Meanwhile law-abiding citizens are not only being robbed, but pistol whipped after they've turned over their valuables.
But enough of this boring crime stuff......the Falcons want a new stadium, so let's focus on that.

For those complaining about Mayor Reed, just remember there is an election coming up. Show you are sick of this crap and vote for someone else. Speaking of the election, has there been any word on who is going to run against him? I have not heard a thing.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it. For all of you "up and coming" 20-30 somethings who want more rentals in midtown, this is what you have to live with. You want city life, you have to deal with city issues. Sure the police should do their jobs but what should be and what is are separate in and of themselves. More people = more crime. Get over it. It's what you all wanted anyway.

Wow, glad I don't live in midtown with the type of neighbors and crime expressed here.

Protect yourself the way you seem fit..Reed and cops do it..so should you..relying on them to save you..useless! I live downtown, know my surroundings and carry a stun gun of 1.4mill volts..I hope I don't ever have to use..but am ready if I need to

We have to be on the lookout for suspicious black folks in midtown who are not gay. I hate to say that, but if they were white Cubans committing the crimes then i would same the same about them... Last month while walking to meet friends at Zocalo, I saw three suspicious black guys on the phone (they were on the subway side of Piedmont) they were staring at two obviously gay guys walking their little dog across the street. I felt a dangerous vibe and I told the two guys to keep walking and that I had their back. I picked up a rock and kept staring at them... They started to break up and I called the APD and within minutes they quietly surrounded the area and arrested one of them. They went after the other two.... They might have to tried to rob them, but I would have seriously wounded at least one of them... We have to look out for people that live in the Midtown community whether they are gay, straight or whatever!

Well I personally feel that we should adopt some middle eastern justice and not the sissy, whiny, making excuses for everyone why they do what they do. When you do crimes like these, you should get flogged by a professional martial arts and tortured. I guarantee you these thugs would stop doing what they do if punishment would severe. Jail is like a retreat for them, they just exchange notes how to be a better criminal, get to work out and enough time to think about a bunch of sinister stuff to do when they get out.

I am even for cutting their hand off where they held the gun.

Anyone walking around Midtown after dark unarmed is an idiot. Remember to call 911: "when seconds count, help is only minutes away"

Thanks Chris... I do not see color!

Well the thing is that these criminals go where they think they can come up. Midtown / Buckhead is praised as the upper echelon and they also feel that those white people that live there are very gullible and yes majority of robberies in the city are done by young blacks this is fact because they love and idolize that type of lifestyle just listen to the hip hop songs. You can get mad all you want but if it is in your face it is what it is.

Also crime has risen in other more prominent areas around the city such as Dunwoody and Sandy Springs and it is not because of Marta it is simply because they think that is where the money is and might be an easy catch.

Why isnt this being reported on any of the major news stations?? I just watched the news and didnt hear a word. I live right at one of the locations where this occured.

I have repeatedly asked for someone in the journalism field to pull the stats of random gun/violent crime since Jan. 2012, map the crimes by date and tag them to criminals' residences when caught (how many are OTP). The overall crime rate may be down, but the stranger on stranger gun crime in the intown neighborhoods has skyrocketed. South of Old Fourth Ward it's the wild wild west, but without comprehensive reporting and only spotty reporting on various Patch's, you get no scope of the issue. APD is trying, having nabbed a couple of car jacking rings, but the fact that there are multiple car jacking rings, armed mugging rings, and never mind the fleeting predators on the Beltline it is no where near enough. When a Kasim Reed supporter indicated 'for the first time we have 2,000 officers' how many of them are newly minted/green, and from my personal safety standpoint it isn't making much of any difference. The only difference is we've not yet had a bartender executed while on the job.

As a foreign student currently going to school here in Atlanta, my experiences with this city has not been great so far. My biggest complain by far is CRIME. Poverty is everywhere, streets are filled with mean and nasty thugs. Local students told me I should never venture out at night. I feel like living in a dangerous third world African country rather than United States.

When you have the people in DC telling people that its not fair that you have money and property, and that some how you cheated them to get it, what do you expect??

Have you seen those free cell phones? Can you blame them for wanting your iPhone?