Former President Donald Trump continues to make false and misleading claims about crime in Atlanta . Trump has posted the inaccurate statements on his social media platform while attacking Fani Willis the Fulton County district attorney who is prosecuting him over his efforts to overturn his defeat in Georgia in the election . In a social media post Thursday afternoon hours before he was planning to surrender for processing at a Fulton County jail Trump claimed that in Atlanta Murder and other Violent Crimes have reached levels never seen before . Atlanta Police Department statistics through Saturday show that the number of murders in the city is down so far this year compared to last year and that this years number is also down about from roughly the same point in the year before Willis took office . Atlanta is nowhere near record levels of either murder or violent crime . Violent crime is both down sharply this year . In reality crime trends are affected by a complex web of local and national factors . Atlanta was not the countrys worst city for crime even before its improvements this year. The improvement like the to decline that preceded it is part of a national trend is like the murder picture getting much better in . And as we showed above the trend has reversed in . As we showed below the trendline has reversed . In one of his Monday posts he also said Crime in Atlanta was the city’s highest since . Asher provided figures showing that the citys current rate is far lower than those of the late s and early s . But by any reasonable statistical measure Atlanta was . As well as the city was not to be the nation’S worst. Asher said Asher described Asher. As well to . Aswell as . Ashed said . Ashers said, ‘the murder rate was roughly the . to decline, .
Atlanta murder is down sharply this year and nowhere near a record . Atlanta murder rate is
