Several days of intensified protests against Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center culminated May 17 in several trespassing arrests at the site and the no-notice cancellation of a community review committee’s meeting.
Police and prosecutors are discussing new crackdown tactics on Atlanta’s so-called water boys, including banishment and targeting of parents and guardians.
“So, we’re still looking good with crime” must be the last thing you’d expect to hear from Buckhead’s police commander amid a cityhood movement founded on the notion, largely unchallenged even by its opponents, that ...
By John Ruch As Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center heads toward a possible City Council vote just after Labor Day, its backers pitched a new, smaller site plan and an intent to form a ...
The City of Atlanta has adopted an updated COVID response plan, the COVID-19 Resilience Plan. The report tracks the pandemic status through seven-day averages for new cases and the rate of positive COVID tests and ...
The Atlanta Police Academy is set to reopen next week in its new home at Atlanta Metropolitan State College. The deal is a temporary solution while the City seeks to build a permanent public safety ...
Mother’s Day is on the horizon — Time to kick back with family, whether in-person or via FaceTime, and enjoy the day. Versions of Mother’s Day have existed for quite a while, but the second ...
Soon after Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced felony murder charges would be brought against former Atlanta Police officer Garrett Rolfe, the man who shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks outside an intown Wendy’s ...
On June 1, I penned an essay outlining my perspective on the first night of recent Black Lives Matter protests in Atlanta. Titled Atlanta missed the mark during the protests, but police and demonstrators can ...
“She took one for the team.” That’s the way Dave Wilkinson, president and CEO of the Atlanta Police Foundation, described the Saturday resignation of Erika Shields as Atlanta’s police chief.
Police Chief George Turner will be retiring from his post at the end of the year – after spending 35 years with the Atlanta Police Department. The news was met with sadness from the business-led Atlanta ...
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