From the very beginning, Atlanta's white leaders saw controlling the city's Black population as a vital component of economic growth and development and decided that a modern police force was necessary to achieve that goal.
Jonathon Booth
Jonathon Booth is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School where he teaches courses on criminal law and legal history. His article “Policing After Slavery: Race Crime and Resistance in Atlanta” was published earlier this year in the University of Colorado Law Review.