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According to the FBI, which finally released hate crime statistics for 2021, these infractions increased 22 percent in Georgia. Advocates are even more concerned about a 20 percent decline in the number of agencies that reported these incidents. Religion, sexual orientation, and ethnicity were the most common hate crimes violations in Georgia. Anti-Defamation League Southeast …
Few details were available after an allegedly intoxicated driver lost control of his pickup and swerved into the path of an oncoming SUV, killing a former Emerson mayor and his wife. The wreck happened in Cherokee County. Albert Pallone was the mayor of Emerson, a city of about 1,400 people in neighboring Bartow County northwest …
Most of the Law Enforcement Strategic Support Act went into effect in mid-2022. The remainder, which is mostly a tax credit for private contributions to police retirement and certain other funds, takes effect January 1, 2023. Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan championed the measure. Police departments may use donated funds for actions like increasing officer salaries, …
Atlanta has about 500,000 residents and about a 1,600-officer police force. The DeKalb County Sherriff’s Office, which is responsible for about 500,000 people, has fewer than six hundred men and women in uniform. Only about half these officers are available to respond to 9-1-1 calls. Many precincts only have a handful of field officers on …
Party hosts should have rides home on standby, and require guests to use them, if they use the Supreme Court’s unofficial eggnog. The recipe was buried in the papers of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, who served in that capacity between 1941 and 1946. A sudden brain hemorrhage unexpectedly killed Stone, who was the first …
Officers responding to a disturbance call arrested a man for obstruction of justice and illegally being in a roadway. During the process, an allegedly drunk driver struck an officer, sending him to the hospital in critical condition. A tipster claimed a man was threatening a woman with a weapon at a gas station. Officers located …
