The Flack Attack » crime and punishment http://www.theflackattack.com …sparse and to the point. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:29:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Re: Pennington http://www.theflackattack.com/2009/09/re-pennington/ http://www.theflackattack.com/2009/09/re-pennington/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:15:03 +0000 flackattack http://www.theflackattack.com/?p=147 As a quick follow up to my previous post, it must feel kind of weird in Atlanta Sheriff Richard Pennington’s shoes these days. After pulling successful stints in DC and New Orleans, cities with much more prevalent violent crime “issues” than Atlanta, Pennington’s got to be perplexed by the heat he’s catching in Atlanta. Or maybe not… I’m not a mind reader. Maybe it explains Pennington’s reaction to the public outcry. Maybe it doesn’t.

I do find it a little ironic though that Pennington was lauded for his work bringing down crime rates in some very tough cities, but is being panned here for basically doing the same thing. The rates of crime really took a dip when he showed up on the scene in 2002, and while he’s not responsible for all the goodness, it all happened on his watch.

Not defending or justifying, it just occurred to me when I was finished up the other post that Pennington was the Sheriff when I lived in NOLA. I haven’t taken the time to look it up or anything, but I bet Atlanta was a relative Disney World compared to the violent crime rate of New Orleans at the time.

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