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ALBANY, Ga. -- In 1988 the Cosby Show was tops on TV, Rain Man was setting records at the box office and Albany became known as the murder capital of the U.S.

#More accurately, Albany had a higher percentage of murders per capita than any other city in the country. Its 24.1 murders per 100,000 people topped even the percentage of New York City who came in at 22.7 per 100,000 in 1988.

#That year 29 people where killed -- a high water mark that earned the city its dubious nom de plume and cemented the perception held by many in Southwest Georgia, the state and beyond that Albany is unsafe place to live.

#It's a perception that, 24 years later, still grips the community -- rightly so when one looks at the majority of violent crime categories like robbery and aggravated assaults.

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