A plan to build a new training center for police and firefighters in Atlanta has put city officials on a collision course with activists opposed to its construction.
of that, or $30 million. The rest will come from private donations raised by the Atlanta Police Foundation., the Atlanta Police Foundation's board is"filled with executives from nearly all of Atlanta's big-name companies, like Delta, Waffle House, Home Depot, Georgia Pacific, Equifax, Carter, Accenture, Wells Fargo and UPS, among others. It reads like a who's who of corporate Atlanta.
Bond sees the dispute over the center’s construction as something of a false divide between members of the community and law enforcement. Both groups want a safer city, he says, but might have different visions for achieving it. He adds that the further you get away from the area where the center would be located, “[most] Atlantans don’t have the same type of fervor that the activists do for the facility.
Critics also say that ordnance testing could pollute the soil and water surrounding the new facility. Residents in that neighborhood already have some of theof poverty, asthma and exposure to toxic chemicals, according to a White House database, and this project could make a bad situation even worse.
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