The Atlanta Police Department is blasting a “misinformation campaign” about its hiring practices following claims about lower standards made by the Buckhead City Committee (BCC).
APD’s Jan. 5 statement, issued on social media with a graphic saying “Accuracy Alert,” did not name the source it was replying to, and the department would not specify it when asked later by Buckhead.com. However, the statement came the same day the BCC claimed in a press release that “Mayor Dickens instructed APD to lower the bar in a desperate rush to hire more police officers.”
“We at the Atlanta Police Department (APD) love the entire City of Atlanta; however, we must stand up for our department and our troops and we must refute false claims and misinformation recently made,” said the APD statement. “We don’t want to be dragged into the middle of a misinformation campaign.”
“The APD is NOT lowering hiring standards for our police officers,” the statement continued before going into various policy details.
Crime fears and realities are the major drivers of Buckhead City political momentum. The BCC claims cityhood and a local police force are the only solutions to crime. Dickens has sought to neutralize the cityhood movement and address citywide crime by promising a variety of improvements, including the rapid hiring of 250 additional officers. The BCC in turn has attempted to dismiss Dickens as dishonest and the cityhood movement as pro-police.
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