{"id":568639,"date":"2021-06-19T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568639"},"modified":"2021-06-19T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T18:52:15","slug":"atlanta-community-looks-to-separate-from-the-capital-amid-skyrocketing-crime-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-community-looks-to-separate-from-the-capital-amid-skyrocketing-crime-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta community looks to separate from the capital amid skyrocketing crime rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatlanta-community-looks-to-separate-from-the-capital-amid-skyrocketing-crime-rates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2429904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2429904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A highway leading to the city of Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by TAMI CHAPPELL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:45 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, June 19, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Community leaders of a community in Atlanta, Georgia have pushed to remove itself from the Peach State\u2019s capital amid skyrocketing crime rates. On Friday, Bill White, CEO of the Buckhead City Committee, stated the community submitted two bills to the Georgia legislature in effort to separate from Atlanta and become its own city.<\/p>\n<p>The original bill was introduced by Rep. Todd Jones (R-Ga.) in April. Lawmakers hope residents will vote on the referendum ballot in January 2022. The decision came after police statistics reported an increase in murders by 63 percent since May 2020 in the Democrat-run city under Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, while police continued to lose funding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Atlanta is failing<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta needs new leadership, a new mayor NOW<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta deserves transparency in procurement &amp; taxpayers dollars spending<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta must take the handcuffs OFF it\u2019s police &amp; treat them with respect\/allow them to do their job<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta deserves better<\/p>\n<p>Who agrees?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill White ATL (@BillWhiteNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillWhiteNY\/status\/1373471288480661511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One May weekend left 19 people shot and six people dead in Atlanta neighborhoods, which fueled the Buckhead City Committee to push even harder for a separation. White stated Buckhead City would also have its own judge, court and jail to crack down on crime.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to argue, \u201cwe are at war here in Atlanta and it\u2019s obvious to the average citizen that this is a huge crisis that we have to get control of right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gun violence isn\u2019t a political issue. It is not a 2nd Amendment issue and it not a race issue. It is people making terrible decisions with guns, poor anger management, and it is a profound carelessness and lack of regard for human life issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DyASdUNV28\">https:\/\/t.co\/DyASdUNV28<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/APDCares?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#APDCares<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O4hCkW5ZCW\">pic.twitter.com\/O4hCkW5ZCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Police Department (@Atlanta_Police) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atlanta_Police\/status\/1405977577030926336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although, the committee for United Atlanta has maintained opposition against Buckhead becoming a city by stressing the divorce proceeding is a lengthy process. Head of United Atlanta, Attorney Linda Klein, said legal battles could ensue and potentially halt the process for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new city would need to have its own set of bureaucrats, elected officials, and others,\u201d she explained. \u201c\u2026It\u2019s very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Buckhead city committee cited similar formations of cities such as Brook Haven and Sandy Springs as proof it can be done. White outlined the points on the committee\u2019s website in terms of taxes, leadership and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, White is confident around 80 percent of community members will vote in favor of the separation.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-cruz-slams-critical-race-theory\/\">Sen. Cruz Slams Critical Race Theory<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highway leading to the city of Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by TAMI CHAPPELL\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 11:45 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, June 19, 2021 Community leaders of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280775,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}