Posted on 10/02/2021 12:43:21 PM PDT by knighthawk
Atlanta's wealthiest suburb is edging closer to separating itself from the city as it introduces a bill to Georgia's legislature that goes up for a vote next year.
With rising crime rates in Atlanta, Bill White, the CEO of Buckhead City Committee (BCC), is pushing for the suburb where the average house price costs $1.4 million, to 'divorce' itself from Atlanta.
'We are living in a war zone in Buckhead,' White told Bloomberg Businessweek. 'Shootings and killings, it just never ends.'
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“ But the bigger problem is Atlanta is going downhill at an accelerating speed.”
No.
The bigger problem is that the post-1964 social order is a failure and is ruining life for everyone in America.
Ask the residents of Beverly Hills, California if they have the same crime problems as the larger City of Los Angeles (they don’t).
The City of Buckhead plans to establish an effective police force, unlike the current lax enforcement going on in the City of Atlanta. Thugs acting up in Buckhead will get the message pretty quickly and go elsewhere to commit their crimes.
Highland Park and University Park are cities within the boundary of Dallas TX. The “Park” cities have their own police, fire, Mayors, schools, etc. High $$$ locations.
I wish them the best...wish there was more general rebellion around this land!
There’s probably a lot of trained police officers looking for a job with all the Democrap defund BS.
Buckhead’s Peachtree Presbyterian Church, the largest mainline Presbyterian church in America, provides a $1M life insurance policy for every uniformed fire/police/emt in Atlanta. And there are a lot of them.
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