Atlanta’s assistant police chief has been named the department’s interim leader by Mayor Andre Dickens while a permanent search continues.
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Public safety training center protests are followed by arrests, advisory group meeting cancellation
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.
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Legal tactics against Atlanta’s ‘water boys’ could include banishment, targeting parents
Police and prosecutors are discussing new crackdown tactics on Atlanta’s so-called water boys, including banishment and targeting of parents and guardians.
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Buckhead crime rate ‘looking good’; guns stolen from vehicles a problem, says police commander
“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 the neighborhood is a criminal “warzone.”
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Smaller public safety training center site plan is pitched; transparency criticism continues
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 community advisory committee at a Sept. 2 virtual meeting. Officials emphasized community-inspired changes to the concept and answered many public […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta mayoral field reaches 19 and counting
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 COVID-related hospitalizations. Community vaccination rates are another main focus of the report. The city’s status is represented through a color-coordinated […]
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Atlanta Police Academy to open temporary home at college rejected as training center site
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 training center at a controversial site in DeKalb County after rejecting other options — including the college. The former police […]
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta officer fired for Rayshard Brooks’ murder is reinstated
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 Sunday in May officially became a national holiday in 1914 under President Woodrow Wilson. Through the years, Mother’s Day festivities […]
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A closer look at the “Blue Flu”: More than half of Atlanta’s beat cops missed work after ex-officer charged with murder of Rayshard Brooks
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 restaurant, most of the mobile troops on the city’s police force didn’t show up for their shifts.
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Police don’t need to join hands with protesters; they need to snitch on “bad apples”
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 learn from the turmoil, the column appealed for unity between law enforcement and the people demanding accountability and justice for cops.
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Atlanta must continue its quest to be a leader in police reform
“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.
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Two new At-Promise centers to break ground
It’s “changing lives one by one, we’re at-promise, not at-risk. And that’s a great thing,” T.J. Jones said.
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Commentary: Turner’s legacy in Atlanta won’t be forgotten
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 Police Foundation, the organization that has worked closely with Turner since he was made police chief in 2010.
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Atlanta police hosting analysts involved in federal effort to improve police practices
On the heels of peaceful protests in Atlanta by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, a team working with the White House to advance policing practices are visiting Atlanta to talk with the Atlanta Police Department and community stakeholders.
