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Brothers Kenny and Axel Dodson, who were in town visiting their father, were taking a stroll Thursday evening through the historic preservation district that includes the civil rights leader’s birth home when they saw another visitor pointing to a woman.
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Two off-duty NYPD officers are credited with helping stop a woman who was trying to set fire to the Martin Luther King Jr. birthplace in downtown Atlanta. Two tourists intervened, and then the officers detained the woman until Atlanta officers arrived.
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Officers voiced a desire for a take-home vehicle program, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens explained. It doesn't just have benefits to the officers, either. Dickens said seeing vehicles parked around the community brings people a sense of safety and security.
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"This is a dream come true," Chief Celeste Murphy, who served two decades with the Atlanta PD, told an audience at the announcement. "I've rose through every single rank, I didn't skip anything. And I did that intentionally to make sure that I was prepared to do something like this today."
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The Atlanta PD-led mission took nearly two years to plan, with more than 40 federal, state and local agencies involved.
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The DEA says a raid on that home yielded 14 kilograms of heroin that was wrapped up and made to look like Mexican candy. The DEA says investigators also found 50 kilograms of meth in liquid form.
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The agency ordered 2,300 Glock 22 Gen4 pistols for a department-wide transition to Glock firearms. SWAT officers will get the Glock 21 in .45 ACP.
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An off-duty officer who took an intoxicated woman into custody during a scuffle at a suburban Atlanta IHOP followed proper procedure, an internal review by the Atlanta Police Department has found.
Read More →The Atlanta PD launched Red Dog, which is said to stand for Run Every Drug Dealer Out Of Georgia, during the crack-cocaine epidemic in the 1980s when Atlanta had open-air drug markets and almost weekly drive-by shootings.
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Take a closer look at the raid led by the Gwinnett County (Ga.) PD's Special Investigation Section of a meth house in suburban Atlanta that resulted in the seizure of almost a half-ton of methamphetamine with a street value of $44 million. Police arrested a Texas man in connection with the bust. Photos courtesy of Gwinnett County PD.
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