State Overview
Georgia's homicide landscape is dominated by Atlanta, a city that has seen its murder rate climb dramatically in recent years, particularly in the post-pandemic period. Atlanta's outer suburbs — including Clayton County and DeKalb County — have seen concentrated violence that has raised questions about the relationship between the city's economic growth and its Black and Latino communities. Beyond Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, and Macon have their own persistent violence problems. Georgia's history of racial violence includes the Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early 1980s — a still-unsolved string of killings that traumatized the city's Black community. FBI UCR data powers The Murder Channel's Georgia coverage.