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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.