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As the city of Atlanta hosted a news conference to address its 154th homicide of the year, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she takes the issue of crime âvery seriously.â
âI want to be clear: I know what Iâm responsible for in the city and I take it very seriously,â she said at the Dec. 29 conference, where she and two Atlanta Police Department leaders spoke about the police identifying and issuing warrants for a suspect in the Dec. 21 Buckhead shooting of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie, who died five days later. âIf thereâs something weâre not doing and we havenât enacted or should be doing better, my ego is small enough to ask what we need to do to improve things.
As the city of Atlanta hosted a news conference to address its 154th homicide of the year, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she takes the issue of crime âvery seriously.â
âI want to be clear: I know what Iâm responsible for in the city and I take it very seriously,â she said at the Dec. 29 conference, where she and two Atlanta Police Department leaders spoke about the police identifying and issuing warrants for a suspect in the Dec. 21 Buckhead shooting of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie, who died five days later. âIf thereâs something weâre not doing and we havenât enacted or should be doing better, my ego is small enough to ask what we need to do to improve things.
7-year-old s shooting death fuels calls for private police in affluent Atlanta neighborhood nbcnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Too Many Chiefs? Chief Bike Officer Is the Latest Addition Despite their important-sounding titles, many of the growing number of “chiefs” in government don t have much actual authority. Alan Greenblatt | February 2016
Becky Katz has been pushing for bike-friendly policies in Atlanta for years. Now she can do that from inside city hall, as the city’s first chief bicycle officer.
The new position of chief bicycle officer signals two things. One is that thinking about what’s good for bicyclists is a priority for Mayor Kasim Reed. The other is that it’s starting to get a little crowded in the “C” suites. In Atlanta, as in places across the country, there’s a growing number of people in government with the word “chief” in their titles.