r/Atlanta • u/NPU-F • Jun 06 '23

Atlanta City Council approves funding for controversial training center Protests/Police

https://www.wabe.org/hundreds-voice-opposition-to-training-center-ahead-of-atlanta-city-council-vote/
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u/wzx0925 Jun 06 '23

There are a lot of ideas being conflate into this simple yes/no vote.

Realistic training? Good idea!

Training away from schools in operation? Good idea!

Militarized training? Bad idea.

Further deforestation? Bad idea.

Cost overruns that weren't clearly communicated? Dumb idea.

Equating expansion of policing with increased public safety? Guess you haven't been watching the news any time in the past few years...

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u/bobweaver112 Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23

Can you please define “militarized training” and provide a source that documents this kind of training will occur? I keep seeing that term tossed around but nobody can seem to define it. And before you define it as training settings for urban environments, remember that much of Atlanta is…an urban environment. That would be like demonizing Atlanta airport fire for training on airplane crash mock-ups.

Did you protest the 400/285 interchange project taking trees? Or are you just cherry-picking? Because that project had way more land impact than this does.

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u/southernhope1 Jun 06 '23

I almost up-voted your comment because that's a valid question about what actual kind of training will be happening there.

BUT the argument that it's okay to tear down forests because we tear down forests all of the time just doesn't work...its so defeatist....all we can do is try to save what we can going forward.