{"id":108837,"date":"2020-12-30T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108837"},"modified":"2020-12-30T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:39:21","slug":"atlanta-city-council-members-seek-to-fund-proposal-for-private-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108837","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta city council members seek to fund proposal for private police force"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do you do when you vilify and defund your police and crime inevitably goes up? Well, if you’re in the “affluent”, you get to use taxpayer dollars to contract with private security to ensure your safety. The Hill<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n

The shooting death of a 7-year-old Atlanta girl has emboldened a group of community leaders to call for a private security force to supplement the Atlanta Police Department.<\/p>\n

NBC News reports that 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie was shot in the back of the head by a stray bullet just days before Christmas. She remained in critical condition before dying of her injuries on Saturday.<\/p>\n

NBC notes that Kennedy’s death was one of a record amount of homicides the Atlanta Police Department has investigated this year. A suspect has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

Atlanta Police Officer Steve Avery said in a statement, \u201cAs of the end of the week 52 reporting period we are at 154 homicides compared with 99 for the same period of 2019 \u2026 That is an increase of 61%.”<\/p>\n

Kennedy’s shooting on Dec. 21 has galvanized a group of Atlanta city council members to announce on Monday they were allocating $125,000 to fund the Buckhead Security Plan, NBC reports. The proposed plan would fund a private police force in Atlanta\u2019s affluent Buckhead residential area.\u00a0<\/strong>[Emphasis added]<\/p>\n

City council members J.P. Matzigkeit, Howard Shook and Matt Westmoreland backed the plan along with support from the Atlanta Police Department, members of the Fulton County Commission and a member of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Along with added security patrols, the plan also calls for additional security cameras and license plate readers, NBC reports. The plan will cost $1.6 million with private police officers already scheduled to begin patrolling the area in January, according to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There you go. The spikes in violent crime have finally started to hit those with money. Naturally when your wealthy start to be affected by your poor policy decisions you must protect them. I’m sure the poor people in the projects are comforted knowing that the affluent are safe as their neighborhoods descend into violent anarchy.<\/p>\n

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