. N 3 See also 1970 607,592 9.2%, 6.1 Funding history Establishment, Central Campus Modernization; 2.1 Boundaries The city is served by the Atlanta Police Department in 2013 the APD had 2,000 officers but the number of officers has decreased since that time Mayor Kasim Reed has identified an increase in the number of officers to 2,000 as a goal for the city Although city data shows that APD attrition rates have improved from the 2000s to 2013 morale issues within the police department has persisted due to officer dissatisfaction with salaries About 45 percent of officers hired between 2005 and 2013 left the force by 2017 Atlanta is divided into six police patrol zones; . The Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association began in 1946 as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks playing in Moline Illinois the team moved to Milwaukee in 1951 then to St Louis in 1955 where they won their sole NBA Championship as the St Louis Hawks in 1968 they came to Atlanta.
Handball (2) On October 2 2017 John Coppolella resigned as general manager of the Braves amid a Major League Baseball investigation into Atlanta's international signings having committed what the Braves termed "a breach of MLB rules regarding the international player market" on November 13 2017 the Braves announced Alex Anthopoulos as the new general manager and executive vice president John Hart was removed as team president and assumed a senior adviser role with the organization Braves chairman Terry McGuirk apologized to fans "on behalf of the entire Braves family" for the scandal McGuirk described Anthopoulos as "a man of integrity" and that "he will operate in a way that will make all of our Braves fans proud." on November 17 2017 the Braves announced that John Hart had stepped down as senior advisor for the organization Hart said in a statement that "with the hiring of Alex Anthopoulos as general manager this organization is in great hands.", The syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune taped three weeks of Olympics-themed episodes from the Fox Theater in Atlanta for broadcast in April and July 1996 which included prizes from the Games' official sponsors a video game featuring the Games' mascot Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings was also released. Mechanical Engineering 3 ? All MLB rosters 72/22 90/32 32 Josh Tomlin Atlanta played a vital role in the Allied effort during World War II due to the city's war-related manufacturing companies railroad network and military bases leading to rapid population and economic growth in the 1950s the city's newly constructed highway system allowed middle class Atlantans the ability to relocate to the suburbs As a result the city began to make up an ever-smaller proportion of the metropolitan area's population. In the 1730s Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9 1732 Oglethorpe and his compatriots hoped to establish a utopian colony that banned slavery and recruited only the most worthy settlers but by 1750 the colony remained sparsely populated the proprietors gave up their charter in 1752 at which point Georgia became a crown colony. . ? ? ? ? ? Perimeter Center Community Improvement Districts covering the Perimeter Center area of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody/ Main article: Demographics of Atlanta!
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