Wednesday, October 22, 2008
News Add It Up: Law and disorder
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Percentage of graduates in the last two Atlanta Police Academy classes who’ve been arrested or cited for a crime: 36
Of the 33 total graduates, number who became officers: 33
Number of those graduates who’d been denied jobs with other law enforcement agencies: 12
Minimum number of graduates who’d been deemed psychologically incompatible for work at another police department: 1
Number of officers the Atlanta Police Department should employ to ensure public safety, authorities say: 2,000
Number of officers currently employed: 1,700
Number of Atlanta officers indicted in a 2006 botched raid that left a 92-year-old woman dead: 3
Of those, number who blamed pressure to meet arrest quotas as the impetus for the raid: 3
Months after the raid that the city created a Citizen Review Board to review police misconduct: 4
Number of police misconduct cases that the board considered in its first 18 months: 0
Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, International Brotherhood of Police Officers
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