How Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Trumped Justice

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Georgia law-enforcement officers in front of a charred construction vehicle in the South River Forest.On Sunday evening, Georgia law-enforcement officials gave residents a preview of the tactics they hope to refine at “Cop City,” a $90 million training facility that Atlanta’s leaders are trying to build in a local forest.

In 2020, Atlanta, the most unequal city in the country, seemed to reach a turning point on policing. As unrest gripped the region after the killing of George Floyd, then-Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms invoked the city’s history of Black leadership to suggest that rioters were not just destroying property but their own proud inheritance. “If you care about this city, then go home,” she.

, which included an entire mock city where cops could practice raids and riot control, and a “diversion center” for people with behavioral problems that she’d opened at the mostly empty Atlanta city jail as part of an effort to keep people accused of minor offenses from being locked up.

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