Fireman Hopes to Change the Crime

“Macon is not a big city. But it’s not a small city for per capital, the amount of crime that we have,” said Tyler Jolissaint, who lives in Warner Robins and works at a Macon fire station.

He said crime is one thing he wants to change about Macon.

“I feel that we can bring more people in and have more stuff for entertainment or family if crime wasn’t so much for the small area,” Jolissaint said.

According to reports from The (Macon) Telegraph, there were 12 slayings in the first six months of 2015. This compares to seven homicide by July 2016.

Jolissaint said poverty could be the major cause of the crime in Macon.

“The tobacco company, when they move from Macon, a lot of people lost their jobs,” he said referring to the 2006 closing of the Brown & Williamson plan, which made cigarettes and employed about 2,100 people.

“Jobs and job training,” he said, will help changing the crime situation in Macon.