City Survey Finds APD With Highest Satisfaction Ratings In A Decade
ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT / WABE
A new survey finds Atlantans are more satisfied with their police force than they’ve been at any time in the past decade.
The findings continue a five-year trend, where more and more respondents have indicated they feel safer and that they believe police here are a positive presence.
Despite recent, high-profile police blunders like the Atlanta Eagle Raid, the Ruby’s Sanabella raid, and public strip-searches, APD spokesman Carlos Campos says most Atlantans feel good about interactions they have with officers.
“The vast majority of those encounters are positive. But we don’t hear about those. And the news media doesn’t hear about those. That’s the nature of the beast.”
Seventy-three percent of respondents said they feel police have either “a great deal” or “some deal” of presence in their neighborhoods.
Slightly more than half say the department is “excellent” or “good” when it comes to curbing violent crime.
Those figures are 10-15% higher than at their lowest point, which was in 2006.
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