Cityscape
Best Local Hero: The Cop on the Corner
Staff Pick
This hasn’t been a great year for the Atlanta Police Department. Every badge in the department was tarnished by the narcotics detectives who botched the drug raid that left an innocent elderly woman dead. Morale stinks, officers are fleeing and crime rates are up. Which is why we salute THE COP ON THE CORNER. They risk their lives, get cursed at and get used as pawns in city politics, all to keep us safe. There’s not much a lowly lawman or lawwoman can do about the department’s leadership except show up for work and do his or her job. So, to all the rank-and-file police officers wading through the department’s current mess: You are, indeed, Atlanta’s finest. Thank you.
Previously in Best of Atlanta
- 2012 Best local hero - Boyd Coons
- 2010 Best local hero - Clark Howard
- 2009 Best local hero - Clark Howard
- 2008 Best Local Hero - All or Nothing Pitbull Rescue
- 2007 Best Local Hero - Baton Bob
- 2007 Best Local Hero - Shirley Franklin
- 2006 Best Local Hero - Shirley Franklin
- 2006 Best Local Hero - Judith Curry
- 2005 Best Local Hero - Mayor Shirley Franklin
- 2005 Best Local Hero - Rosalynn Carter
