Police placed on 12-hour shifts around Occupy Atlanta
An interesting tidbit was dropped inside a noon report by Channel 2 Action News. Two dozen cops patrolling the Occupy Atlanta campsite downtown are now on 12-hour shifts, and have been since Saturday.
That means increased overtime costs to the city, and a human strain on a police force with finite personnel resources. When taking into account the likelihood that — once it ramps up pressure, City Hall is unlikely to retreat — then it becomes hard to see campers remaining in Woodruff Park for another two weeks.
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Al
October 24th, 2011
10:11 pm
Between 25% & 50% 1980=25.62% 2007=19.04% (more than a 20% drop) while top 1% had over a 275% increase.
td
October 24th, 2011
10:26 pm
Al,
Do you think there is any corrlation between the household income level declining and the steady rise in single parent headed households?
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/vanneman/socy441/trends/femhh.html
rudikkingme
October 24th, 2011
10:38 pm
WTF? RU dikking me? occupy atlanta is about the experience. People want to viscerally taste each other. They need a grounding reality.
Galloway: U need to inspect your staff. There is a rebel. There is a Palin clone. Find her. Destroy her. Get her out of my face.
Otherwise, the terrorists win.
td
October 24th, 2011
10:43 pm
Al,
Here are some more stats for unwed births to go along with the divorce rates. Look at the steady rise of these rates along side the decrease in household income rates. I would submit that there is a direct correlation between these numbers and the numbers you supplied and these numbers.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf
Al
October 24th, 2011
11:05 pm
td
I see where those numbers might affect the bottom, but the bottom half? And this wouldn’t explain the dramatic decline in the group between the top 10% and 50%
yuzeyurbrane
October 24th, 2011
11:08 pm
td, I thought I defended the right of you and Centrist to express your views on another post today. Didn’t read the post to which you refer yesterday. If he attacked your right to speak, I would have defended you. As to Centrist, source of info re career military is, surprise, a Centrist post wherein he bragged about his 10 plus years military service. Sorry for assuming it was career but my personal experience has been that anyone who serves more than 4 yrs. at least intends to be career. Don’t know why Centrist service was 10 years but he is the source. And that is a long time to live in socialist system . . . long enough to qualify him for a lot of govt. benefits which I am sure he now takes in addition to the money he earns in his second career in private sector (source: Centrist), and to which he has added or will add his Social Security old age benefits. Sorry it made him so pissed he resorted to name-calling, but it is not the first nor will it be the last time that I see him resort to that.
Message for td
October 24th, 2011
11:16 pm
Hello td. I have studied your comments quite thoroughly over the last several months. Some of your comments bug me, but I am sure you feel the same way about some of mine. I love America just as much as the next person. Wherever one may stand on the political spectrum, nonetheless, it is always important to spread the message of peace instead of hate. I am sure you are a successful person, for you have good writing skills and stand to the right on all matters. What is your profession?
Al
October 24th, 2011
11:19 pm
Anyway you slice it, when you move 15% of the overall earnings to the top 1%, there is going to be substantial declines across a wide segment of the population and births, divorces and debauchery are not going to be able to explain the numbers away. There is still 15% more the money in the hands of a tiny fraction of the population.
This is out of balance. The ration of pay of the CEO to the wage earner on average in the USA is 475:1 Compare this to the second largest gap – Venezuela at 50:1 The ninth largest CEO to wage earner ration is Germany at 12:1. The USA numbers in 2005 were just a paltry 262:1. It was only 35:1 in 1978. Our ratios were bigger but close to other industrialized nations throughout our history. In the last few years, the differences have exploded.
For the life of me I can’t understand how “conservative” thought can wrap these dramatic changes into their ideology. There’s nothing conservative about it unless you concede that the coservative standard bearers have become the jokers in the courts of the oligarchs.
Peace is possible
October 24th, 2011
11:22 pm
PEACE AND LOVE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Al
October 24th, 2011
11:22 pm
I hate auto correct. Every where my last post says “ration” I meant ratio. Also, I detect an error in the first sentence as well. Should read “…there ARE going to be substantial declines…”
LizBeth
October 25th, 2011
1:19 am
Twelve hour shifts are inappropriate for skilled employees who need to be in control of their emotions on the job at all times. This would also have a profound negative affect on their families and off time. I am appalled that the city of Atlanta is engaging in this practice with its employees, especially if it is to save money. The quality of work by employees rises when an employer cares about their employees and exhibits that care by making the welfare of the employees the priority.
td
October 25th, 2011
2:21 am
I look for people who can love. Once I find these people, it is my job to make them suffer. That is also why I stand for republicans. I have not accepted that life is beautiful. That notion never crossed my mind because I am an oppressor.
Smoke
October 25th, 2011
6:08 am
I’m trying to figure out why the City needed to have police work 12-hour shifts watching OCCUPY (Atlanta) WALL STREET. It’s is not stressful. There are no reports of crime, that I can think of, and no one walking around with AK-47’s or Glocks claiming their second amendment rights.
Buckhead Boy
October 25th, 2011
6:33 am
td, about anything can be correlated to the rise in income disparity because that has been so pervasive. Spurious reasoning produces nonsense — and propaganda. You are the purveyor of which?
Local man feigns ignorance
October 25th, 2011
7:16 am
Headline: “Local man pretends to have no idea”
The local resident who was interviewed said “I don’t think they (the protesters) even know what they are protesting today”. Ha! That was great. It’s like someone living next to a church and proclaiming, “I have no idea what those people are doing in there”.
pete
October 25th, 2011
7:40 am
police need to be patrolling wallstreet Banker crooks to get tax payor money back.If you think Bernie Madoff stole and got away , you need to look at wallstreet Bankers stealing our tax dollars.Bernies deals go way deep right into wallstreet.
Centrist
October 25th, 2011
7:58 am
@ yuzeyurbrane – You obviously did not serve in the military. There is nothing socialistic about it. My 10 years of voluntary service was not all active duty, but some monthly reserve time. It was not a career, but an added education and skill level with considerable technical training between college and graduate school (reserve time then and after). Only those who put in at least 20 years get a pension. Military “benefits” include living in substandard places like on board ships, in tents, in Quonset huts, without family, long work days using very dangerous equipment, and having enemy troops try to kill you. Pay is below average but there was the base exchange and commissary where retail items were slightly cheaper and without sales tax. Believe it or not – there is a lot of personal satisfaction, honor, patriotism, and sense of duty for those who serve. The experience is also appreciated by the private sector upon receiving a voluntary Honorable Discharge.
Michael Marr
October 25th, 2011
8:30 am
pete is right. Why are the police not stationed outside the banks, real estate offices and brokerages so they can can catch the real criminals in the act? 72 bank failures in Georgia since 2008 and just a few arrests. Not even 72 arrests?
MissMollie
October 25th, 2011
8:49 am
Atlanta has been famous for GWTW, the Varsity hot dogs, The Fox, good hospitals, CocaCola, beautiful women, Ladies Paradise (Rich’s), The Nancy Hanks, football, MLK, MARTA, colleges, marches, wars and now THIS….
Centrist
October 25th, 2011
8:56 am
@ MissMollie – At least MARTA and Occupy are more infamous than famous.
Al
October 25th, 2011
9:27 am
“The poor population in America’s suburbs — long a symbol of a stable and prosperous American middle class — rose by more than half after 2000, forcing suburban communities across the country to re-evaluate their identities and how they serve their populations.” today’s news
The Serfs of the Middle Ages, I suppose could be blamed for their poverty. They, after all, didn’t get an education and allowed the ruling landowners to dictate every aspect of their lives. Perhaps one or two, on occasion escaped to another place and through hard work or avarice, gained some measure of wealth and posed as other than a Serf.
We cannot lay all the blame for today’s news of poverty at the feet of those impoverished. Some, yes. Profligate spending. Lack of commitment to a two parent family. Unrealistic job expectations. But, at the end of that line of thought, we must acknowledge that at no time in this history of this land of opportunity has the accumulation of wealth been clustered at the very top as it is today. This is a problem.
Independent voter
October 25th, 2011
9:53 am
Kasim going to lose votes over the Occupy Atlanta they need to protest against cop killer.
Buymadeinusjobs
October 25th, 2011
10:03 am
Let the protesters be as long as they are not actually hurting someone. Go investigate a few of these posters, completely, IRS, Georgia income tax laws, Do they owe child support like republican congressman from Ill.?? Check into their business practices. Who should throw first stone, poor liberals or rich right wingers who are stealing from them.
Who do you think got money from 14 trillion dollar debt?? tax cuts for rich,defense contractors for war equipment , services, oil contractors. marriott contracts for food Cheny’s haliburton , Blackwater now known as XE, check who is still in Irag wanting U. S. taxpayers to protect them.
First p0liticians are bought by campaign contibutions by defense contractors. other international corporations, wall streeters, banksters.
These same people donate to Karl Rove Grassroots, Paul Weyrich’s Republican Study Group(155 Republican congressman) ,
Repub think tank Heritage foundation Which pushes policies for war, tax cuts.
Go google congressional hearings 2001-today and look for heritage testifying folks.
Now there is heritage action group to push their viewpoint..
There are many other groups affecting the 99% ers lives right wing CATO, Norquist no tax increase on wealthy just tax cuts, so cut food stamps , medicaid, housing on low oaid service workers like wal-mart, unemployed (children, grandma-medicaid healthcare).
I would like to see a list of how many GA families are on food stamps social security, medicaid, medicare, veterans retirement, veterans tricare or other gov’t healthcare. SSI and other gov’t programs and how many families get nothing?
I would also like to know how many work for local. state and federal gov’t paycheck or retirement /medical from either. Who are the 1%ers in GA beside congressman??
They get all that power from the rich and if they are not rich going in , they will be soon.
The People’s power is their numbers and they had better stick together, Go read U. S. History 1920,’s;
Now There is biggest disparity between have/rich/1%ers and have nots (rest of us 99% ers since the 1920s. Median income workers $25,363.
T
October 25th, 2011
11:11 am
The mayor is letting this self proclaimed “leader” get out ahead of him at every media cycle that comes along. He is driving the news and the mayor looks like a fool. Clean out the park mayor or keep looking like a fool.
Grits
October 25th, 2011
11:15 am
Think these idiotic Occupy idiots will gladly pay for their damage and other costs to the tax payers and proudly put their occupation location and dates on their resumes? Miscreants all.
Justine
October 25th, 2011
11:20 am
Obviously I woke up this morning in a dictatorship. Isnt it strange how we teach our children about the fact the revolutionary way which allegedly created this country was developed by “violent” protestors who fought against the ruler. Or have we forgotten it was students who sat down at lunch counters that helped bring an end to segregated lunch couners. Or that it was Rosa Parks refusal sitting down that ended segregated bus service. Or have we forgotten that it was students who sat down, sat inn or otherwise refused to be moved that now stopped the draft. That now no male in this country has to worry about being forced into military service and eventually into war.
Yeah I think we have forgotten.
A.S.
October 25th, 2011
11:59 am
Gets the losers are of there. They have no clue what they are protesting and residents/students are getting frustrated having to see this park turn into a refugee camp for a bunch of lazy bums. Go find a job!
Rick Fontaine, 30311
October 26th, 2011
12:01 am
The Mayor is the real goofball here. If Reed could create a job using all his high fallutin washington connections, then we wouldn’t need to protest would we? The homeless population downtown seems to be getting worse…Shirley, what happened to your stop homelessness priorities? (and now you’re national with your grand plans to fix communities??!!) Shirley’s hand picked successor doesn’t seem to have the same convictions.