The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

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The "snitching" conversation is toxic. I don't care for it. If you care about rap and prefer to see fewer people die, neither should you.
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MARTA will arrest a homeless person for evading a $2.50 fare while the city of Atlanta returns $10 million in unspent housing supports.
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DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond declares Intrenchment Creek Park closed until further notice, despite a judicial order demanding the opposite.
It's easy to draw a parallel between Memphis' Scorpion unit and REDDOG in Atlanta or Gun Trace in Baltimore. But policing culture is the problem.
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I've been going through a little hell over the last month. So I'm comping everyone for the lost time.
The forces at work in criminal justice are getting away from where they belong: in the hands of local voters.
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It shouldn't have taken five years to charge former APD cop Sung Kim for killing Jimmy Atchison. And we shouldn't have stopped caring about it.
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Racists in Georgia have a long history of exploiting acts of violence against white women as propaganda. The murder of Eleanor Bowles is no exception.
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14 people have died in the custody of the Fulton County Sheriff this year. One proposed response to criticism of the sheriff is to defund his critics.
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Last year I wrote in The Intercept about a woman whose homelessness was a product of profound mental illness. She was getting help. And then, she…
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Convery left the Fulton County District Attorney's office to head up the state's new gang prosecution office under the Attorney General. This is the…
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Andre Dickens named Darin Schierbaum as Atlanta's permanent police chief this morning. Schierbaum is a great pick. But he takes over a department with…
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The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

Atlanta's true crime story, beyond the headlines. A public policy discussion.
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