140% during that time period. our shootings are up approximately 160%. our big question here is where is all of our money been going all of these years? our budgets show when we re in control of the money we normally send to atlanta, we can have three times as many police officers that we have right now. and also sew 100 million dollar surplus. so when i explain that to people people say wow. so where is all of that money going we re sending to city hall and we don t know answers city governments that have violated their oath of office, their first mission is to protect and keep people safe. if you re not keeping families and mothers and grandfathers and businesses and people that you love safe, you don t want to live in a community like that. lawrence: why even got involved in this dispute that s going on between buck head and atlanta? well, being the ceo founder
safety if leaders don t step up. watch. our families and businesses feel that we ve been exploited for way too long you know we ve spend a lot of hard earn dollars down to city hall we never know where money is going. and then some things started to creep up that have become very dangerous for our health and safety, and indeed our lives. what is it like on the day-to-day basis here? we ve got murder, shootings, carjackings, home invasions, they try to steal our car out of our garage. my sister-in-law had her house invaded with my niece and nephew just left thank god and people are saying enough is enough. crime is through the roof. the way they have treated the police in atlanta they ve quit and major numbers 400 cops have quit. how does that impact you guys as a result of our cops left what does buck head look like? well we have a murder rate of
of jury company we re based internationally but clientele is based here in buck head i ve had to rework how i do my business. i ve had to put a little bit more thought into where i meet my clients. even with social media, i ve, you know, reworked my business model to be able to promote things online and i don t people to know really where i am and what time i ll be there and i frequently don t show things in real time and i would never want to put any of my clients in any compromising position so it is just been interesting to see that. and watching the brick and motor companies here that have either moved out of buck head or even looking at the companies that are second guesses coming to atlanta and buck head. why this was prabble to table of a crime being a major issue affecting all people. did they make the buck head from
criminal and crime in buck head would be you don t think they currently exist right now and no mechanism. j i don t. i really don t. i don t think that it is a priority right now. i feel like there needs to be a bigger sense of urgency especially with the amount of change that our entire nation is seeing. i have a robber come into my house on a friday 2:30 working up stairs in my office i heard glass shatter, and i had no idea what it was. i thought one of my kids maybe dropped a vase or glass went out of my office door, and see a random stranger, a man in my house. kept calling 9-1-1 over and over and no assignment going on i got no live operator i got a recorder saying due to high call volume we can t have anybody answer the phone and whatever recording it was. lawrence: did you ever get an answer? on fourth attempt 2:47 p.m. i
criminal from even thinking that criminal and crime in buck head would be you don t think they currently exist right now and no mechanism. j i don t. i really don t. i don t think that it is a priority right now. i feel like there needs to be a bigger sense of urgency especially with the amount of change that our entire nation is seeing. i have a robber come into my house on a friday 2:30 working up stairs in my office i heard glass shatter, and i had no idea what it was. i thought one of my kids maybe dropped a vase or glass went out of my office door, and see a random stranger, a man in my house. kept calling 9-1-1 over and over and no assignment going on i got no live operator i got a recorder saying due to high call volume we can t have anybody answer the phone and whatever recording it was. lawrence: did you ever get an answer? on fourth attempt 2:47 p.m. i