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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’s affluent Buckhead residential area.
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’s administration.
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.
publicly funding a private police force is literally no different than publicly funding a police force that acts entirely outside of the jurisdiction of the city. these people are such fucking idiots. major ayncap brainworms
"we have an issue with the rate police are murdering people"
"yes of course youre right, we could increase the efficiency by outsourcing to a private company..."
"Technically, there haven't been any police shootings since we replaced them all with Lone Star Security Services!"
Private Security lets Wall Street investors get a slice while piggies lose their overtime, health care, and pensions.
Good. It will be easier to shoot pigs because they won't have a union.
lol, actually a fair point.
we aren't busting police unions, we're just privatizing.
"As you can see from our proof of concept, the efficiency of a private police force would allow us to shoot 7 year olds at a 40% higher rate."
polite clapping
What do you say if a private cop tries to talk to you? Nothing. What do you care.
What do you do if they try to arrest you? Resist with any and all force needed.
Yeah so long as these contractors don't receive the same legal privileges as cops (which they might who knows) this is an absolute win for criminals of any flavor.
That's the real risk here -- that this will just jettison what little public accountability current police have, and legislatures and courts will simply treat rent-a-cops as traditional police. Basically, you'd pull the worst elements from both approaches.
I don't see how they can do that and keep up any sort of facade that this place isn't some kind of Corpocracy, where the law is just completely bought and paid for by corporations; but we do seem to be in the worst possible timeline so shrug emoji
You're right that the mask is coming off more and more. The question is whether this (and a hundred other things like it) will produce pushback or apathy.
Wait a minute.
*squints*
AHA-
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IF YOU TOLD SOMEONE 20 YEARS AGO ABOUT THIS THEY WOULD KILL YOU
Yeeeeeeehaw
I'm sure a private police force will be held to much higher standards of accountability and transparency than existing police forces. How could anything go wrong? :side-eye-1:
CALLED IT BACK IN MAY THAT'S WHAT THEY'D DO.
Libs will be okay with it because the thing they're chanting technically happened.
My politically angry yet unaligned vaguely lefty friend called it in May too. I was so condescending because I'm more well read in leftist theory. Fucking asshole had to be right.
as long as it no longer counts as self defense against a cop and now it's just self defense against a security guard. jk we know theyll still have no consequences.
At least the all houses come with a handy wall built right around the neighborhood.
Buckhead is full of some of the most unhinged psychos.
Imagine the way suburban white people are hostile, now put them in the city
The novelty of being able to smugly invoke Snow Crash has now worn off.
