College Park continues to see an increase in staggering violent crimes within its community, which are far above the national average.
These crimes include sexual assault, shootings, murders, thefts and more.
In Atlanta alone, violent crime surpassed the national average with 612 crimes committed in 2015.
College Park saw 1,366 violent crimes adversely affect its community in 2015.
In fact, College park had 1,080 more crimes committed in 2015 than the national average of 286 per year.
Fifty one percent of these crimes were thefts, with assault and rape accounting for 209 of the violent crimes in College Park.
And here are more shocking statistics regarding sexual assault:
In College Park there are 171 registered sex offenders. The ratio of number of residents in College Park to the number of sex offenders is 86 to 1.
Assaults and Rapes have been on a continual rise in College Park for the past five years.
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