My writing on the City of Atlanta has been extensive in the past year. We don’t have as robust of media coverage as in the…
Most weekends my husband and I go for walks in the woods. Last weekend was no different. We hiked a short trail near Smyrna called…
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…
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…
A number of challenges in Georgia present themselves in Atlanta. People like to forget we’re all on the same team and often encounter the same…
Cameras and the police aren’t anything new. The places cameras may be put and how we engage or don’t engage with police through them is…