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Pursuit Driver
..."We have one of the highest emergency call rates ... in the country. Not in the county. But in the whole country," Green said, citing information she found online.
Green said that as long as the unemployment rate remains high in places like Mableton, crime will continue to be a problem. She also noted the high dropout rate among black males in Georgia's high schools.
"Desperate people will do desperate things," she said. "We've got to address those two critical areas: no jobs and the failure of the education system."...
...and the failure of the education system...
Really? Not a failure of the families to instill in these young people the value of an education? Not the failure of the families to ensure that these young people get their butts to school? Not the failure of these families to bust some backsides when these young people don't do as they are supposed to do? Come on ... you have to own it before you can fix it. As long as you keep laying the blame somewhere else it will never be right.