I spoke with a City of Atlanta cop a few weeks ago. They’re 20-25% under strength. The suburban jurisdictions will not render mutual aid due to the messed up legal situation with the prosecutors. I will not go into the city unless absolutely necessary.
I read that during the “mostly peaceful” protests and arsons last year after the idiot who stole a officers Taser and tried to use it on him and ended up dead, outside agencies said they would only come in in a “officer need help” situation.