Week before last, I shared that the Dept of City Planning (DCP) was dissolving the Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) R. The SWATs are a story…
Of course, that is not going to happen. But, since the GRA loves to use sensational clickbait headlines to grab your attention, we thought we’d…
I’ve been writing a lot about process and politics, but this week I’ll talk about how this and our individual actions contribute over time to…
…Retaliation, rubber stamps, and red tape, essentially. The last time I wrote about the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, I shared that I discovered (by attending…
The week after my SWAT tour within the Atlanta Citizens’ Police Academy was the ride along. Each member of the class was divided up into…
The visit to learn about the SWAT Team was interesting and really engaging. For me, probably not in the way the APD had hoped, but…
This week’s series on the APD’s Citizens’ Police Academy deals with a heavier topic: the Special Victims Unit. I won’t get into details of what…
A few days ago, I wrote a post about an Atlanta city public meeting I watched. In the post that followed, I didn’t want to…
The APD session on narcotics was interesting, particularly after the previous week’s stint in the crime lab where (at the VERY end) we encountered a…
I would like to openly and publicly apologize to the Mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens, for the lackluster interaction he had with the board I…