by Bill Black | May 4, 2022 | The Forum
Citizens expect that Georgia’s U.S. Senate candidates will confront the public safety and criminal justice reform issues. That because Georgia has been constantly wracked by rising gang-violence since 2020— and now Atlanta ranks 3rd highest in murder rates...
by Bill Black | Apr 19, 2022 | The Forum
After decades of criminal street gang uprisings across Georgia, Peach State prosecutors will still be surrounded on all fronts by the public safety and criminal justice reform debates. Yet a small legislative victory befell gang-crime victims this year–...
by Bill Black | Apr 11, 2022 | The Forum
Amid an apocalyptic crime wave as murder rates consecutively doubled since 2020, Georgia’s House of Representatives celebrated the 2022 Legislative Session Monday night without ever having voted on Senate Bill 359, the Safe and Secure Georgia Act. SB 359, now...
by Bill Black | Mar 30, 2022 | The Forum
Yesterday morning state Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sat together testifying before the Georgia House Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 359, the Safe and Secure Georgia Act. SB 359, loaded with...
by Bill Black | Mar 24, 2022 | The Forum
Predictably, gang crime grows virulently apocalyptic two years after the pandemic was declared across the globe. Two years ago, shamefully, a bipartisan group of metro Atlanta district attorneys locked arms in opposing stronger anti-gang legislation proposed...
