http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:59:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/14/pennington-apologizes-for-eagle-raid-%e2%80%94-but-leaves-more-questions/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/14/pennington-apologizes-for-eagle-raid-%e2%80%94-but-leaves-more-questions/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:21:22 +0000 Patrick Saunders http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=24940 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/09/14/pennington-apologizes-for-eagle-raid-%e2%80%94-but-leaves-more-questions/feed/ 12 Says complaints against officers involved in last week's bust will be investigated http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/07/fulton-co-commisioner-free-homes-for-police-officers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/07/fulton-co-commisioner-free-homes-for-police-officers/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:38:02 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=12042 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/07/fulton-co-commisioner-free-homes-for-police-officers/feed/ 0 Robb Pitts wants free abodes for cops that pay $2,500 down payment and commit to 15 years on the force. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/word-about-me/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/word-about-me/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 22:39:07 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/word-about-me/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/15/word-about-me/feed/ 2 Twenty-six-year-old Atlanta police officer Lamar Gavin is being held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. Prosecutors say he videotaped himself raping a neighbor in her apartment last summer. Gavin’s MySpace profile, which can be found at MySpace.com/lgavin82, was last updated April 9. He was booked the next day. The following are excerpts from his [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/10/los-angeles-mayor-acts-atlantas-mayor-travels/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/10/los-angeles-mayor-acts-atlantas-mayor-travels/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 17:03:21 +0000 John F. Sugg http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/10/los-angeles-mayor-acts-atlantas-mayor-travels/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/05/10/los-angeles-mayor-acts-atlantas-mayor-travels/feed/ 0 When police rioted at an immigration rally in Los Angeles May 1, that city’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, canceled a trade mission to Mexico to return home, take command, condemn the obvious wrongdoing and vow to get to the bottom of things. Compare that leadership with Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, who, as I write in my column [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/30/ga-police-with-military-equipment/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/30/ga-police-with-military-equipment/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:29:25 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/30/ga-police-with-military-equipment/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/30/ga-police-with-military-equipment/feed/ 6 “It gives us a capacity that as a small agency we normally wouldn’t have,” said Pelham Police Chief Nealie McCormick. His South Georgia agency of 14 full-time officers and eight reservists has received M-16 rifles, camouflage uniforms, night-vision devices and generators. The quotation is from a crappy AJC story describing how the Pentagon gives leftover military [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/23/perdue-responds-to-canadians-arrest/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/23/perdue-responds-to-canadians-arrest/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:29:21 +0000 Alyssa Abkowitz http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/23/perdue-responds-to-canadians-arrest/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/23/perdue-responds-to-canadians-arrest/feed/ 0 Gov. Sonny Perdue has responded to the Georgia Association of Elected Officials call for an investigation into the arrest of a Canadian tourist who was detained for a minor traffic violation in Glynn County. His response: It was an isolated incident so no further investigation is necessary. That’s because one Glynn County jail employee has already been [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/13/immigration-law-already-raises-questions/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/13/immigration-law-already-raises-questions/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:48:25 +0000 Alyssa Abkowitz http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/13/immigration-law-already-raises-questions/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/13/immigration-law-already-raises-questions/feed/ 0 The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials has called for an investigation into the arrest of a Canadian tourist who was detained for a minor traffic violation in South Georgia. According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen, a 23-year-old female was driving to Florida when police pulled her over for running a stop sign and [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/12/bathroom-humor/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/12/bathroom-humor/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:54:58 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/12/bathroom-humor/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/12/bathroom-humor/feed/ 1 The Associated Press and USA Today just picked up the AJC’s April 2 story about the Atlanta Police Department’s War On Bathroom Sex. I blogged a little bit about it on April 3. In case you missed it, Atlanta cops are peering into toilets at the airport to catch people engaged in sexual activity. Seeing [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/03/atlanta-glory-holes-suddenly-less-glorious/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/03/atlanta-glory-holes-suddenly-less-glorious/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:45:37 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/03/atlanta-glory-holes-suddenly-less-glorious/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/03/atlanta-glory-holes-suddenly-less-glorious/feed/ 1 Yesterday’s edition of Atlanta’s alternative daily newspaper featured a story about an Atlanta Police Department crackdown on men having sex with other men in restrooms at Hartsfield-Jackson. Maj. Darryl Tolleson, commander of the airport precinct, credits a recent increase in “public indecency” arrests at the airport to new and better crime-fighting tactics by the police. Among the [...]