City of Atlanta issued the following announcement on July 16.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the Mayor’s Anti-Violence Advisory Council has delivered its recommendations for immediate and long-term actions to address the current wave of violent crime.
You can view the Anti-Violence Advisory Council’s report online here.
The Advisory Council developed the recommendations by reviewing existing anti-violence efforts already underway by the Mayor’s Administration and the Atlanta Police Department (APD). The Council provided three overarching recommendations with a series of action items intended to compliment or bolster the current crime reduction efforts.
The Anti-Violence Advisory Council recommendations include:
- Creation of a Mayor's Office of Violence Reduction
- Launching, continuation or expansion of nine critical initiatives focused on locations and individuals most impacted by violence
- Investing $70 million to fund the nine critical initiatives
The nine critical initiatives for violence reduction include: public awareness, community capacity and infrastructure building, expansion of programs focused on violence prevention, local security planning, focus on violent repeat offenders, increased enforcement of nuisance properties, hiring 250 additional officers in FY22, expanding the City’s Operation Shield camera network by 250 cameras this year and completing the One Atlanta: Light Up the Night program to install 10,000 new streetlights in high violence areas by December.
The Council recommended dedicating $70 million to fund the nine initiatives—comprised of $50 million in public funding and $20 million from private and philanthropic funds.
The report also included recommendations for long-term initiatives to continue crime prevention efforts. Listen to Mayor Bottoms’ full remarks about the Advisory Council’s report at https://www.facebook.com/cityofatlanta/.
Original source can be found here.
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