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Sen. Ossoff Discusses Violent Crime Increase, Atlanta Spa Shootings at Senate Hearing

Press Release

Date: March 23, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Guns Criminal Justice

Today in a Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff discussed the troubling increase in violent crime across Georgia and the nation, including two weekends with more than 12 shootings in Atlanta, record-setting levels of homicides in Columbus, the massacre in Atlanta last week that killed eight people, including six Asian Americans, and the massacre in Boulder, Colorado, just yesterday.

Sen. Ossoff asked Dr. Selwyn Rogers, Jr., Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine, what he believes is driving the broader increase in crime.

Dr. Rogers said the COVID-19 pandemic has played a large impact in driving social and economic challenges, and he also pointed to the need to focus on solutions to the disproportionate impact crime has on communities of color more broadly to help solve the problem.


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