Attacks along the Atlanta Beltline this year renewed concerns about how safe people are while walking, running and biking on metro Atlanta’s parks and trails.
Channel 2 Action News’s Michael Seiden and Channel 2 Investigates spent weeks examining random acts of violence in public recreation areas across North Georgia, reviewing four years of FBI crime data and speaking with police and survivors.
The analysis identified at least 663 victims of random violence at public recreation areas in 11 metro Atlanta counties from 2022 through 2025. Fulton, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties accounted for more than 500 of them…