Upon taking office at the beginning of the year, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms made it one of her administration’s key priorities to increase pay for police officers. With the city’s murder rate trending in the wrong direction and attrition taking its toll on the force, putting police salaries at competitive levels became not just a campaign promise, but a public safety necessity.
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