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APSPD Launches GREAT Training In Schools
Local school district launches new program to stop gangs from recruiting elementary school kids
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APSPD, Chief Applin, Officer Louis on CBS News
More than 700 children were arrested in U.S. elementary schools during the 2017-2018 school year alone. CBS News National Investigative Correspondent Stephen Stock reports, Black kids and kids with disabilities were disproportionately impacted.
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Atlanta Public Schools Police Officers Train in Active Shooter Drills
Just days before the start of the new school year, several police officers who work for Atlanta Public Schools took part in training drills Thursday designed to see how they would handle an active shooter situation inside a school building.
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Well Done Officer David Jackson
APSPD Officer David Jackson was in the right place at the right time and apprehended a subject who shot a 67 year old man.
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Officer Williamson's Big Surprise.
US Army Specialist Shakir Aquill surprises his mother, Officer LJ Williamson, a Student Resource
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METRO ATLANTA SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS’ NEWEST EQUIPMENT: BODY CAMERAS
When Atlanta Public Schools police officer Meredith Littles reports for duty at Inman Middle School, she sports a new, high-tech tool snapped securely inside her dark uniform.
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Atlanta Schools Start Over With Police
A fight had been brewing between two girls at Grady High School and was on the verge of erupting in the cafeteria. Willette Barr, one of Grady's school resource officers, and her partner Derrick Hammond, stepped in to intervene. In her rage, one of the girls started swinging at Hammond, an action that in other schools—and almost certainly on the street—would have been met forcefully by the two officers and may have led to the girl's arrest.
Instead, Barr and Hammond stayed calm.