Police explain what may be fueling increase in violent Cobb County crime
Statistics show crime up by 30 percent for 2020. And January alone, in 2021, was up roughly 100 percent from the previous year. Author: Tracey Amick Peer Updated: 7:11 PM EST February 5, 2021
COBB COUNTY, Ga. From carjackings and terroristic threats to rapes and shootings, Major James Bullock of the Cobb County Police Department said crime numbers are up. Violent crime is up across the country and we are not immune to that in Cobb County, said Bullock. Our overall increase is about 30 percent and that’s really the number for the department - about a 30 percent increase in the department of violent crime of 2020 over 2019, said Bullock.
Investigators are looking for someone they say is responsible for a series of arsons in a Vinings apartment complex.
According to Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services, seven fires were intentionally set at WestHaven at Vinings, on Paces Walk off Cumberland Parkway. Nick Danz, spokesman for Cobb Fire, told the MDJ the fires were all in the same breezeway on the upper and lower floors of a building at the complex.
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