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…
The City of Atlanta has named its new Commissioner of Planning, after long last, and she happens to be a white woman (h/t to John…
In April of this year, Atlanta City Council Member Byron Amos introduced a resolution calling upon the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board (APAB) and the Commissioner…
…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…
I’m taking a break from my series on the APD and what I learned about it at the Citizens’ Police Academy to offer a note…
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…