Dude. It's just very unlikely you're going to get harmed walking around ATL. If you're white, it's pretty much zilch some random dude is going to shoot at you on the freeway or on the street. Most of these killings are happening around drugs and gangs. If the violence was actually that bad for everyone in ATL then there wouldn't be such a big influx of outsiders rushing to live in the city like it is now. First sign that a city has a widespread violence problem is the white and upper class (including blacks and hispanic) population starts to leave. That's when you know it's unsafe for a normal person to be on the streets. And I'm not talking out my mouth, I saw it first had growing up in Michigan.