Celebrate St. Patty’s Day Without Driving Drunk

How will you celebrate St.Patrick’s Day? Some revelers do so by wearing green clothes and extolling their Irish heritage. Others honor the saint by attending church. Many commemorate the day by attending parades and by visiting bars.  If drinking is apart of your…

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Get to Know Fugitive Stoppers

One of Crime Stoppers’ initiatives has been to broaden the reach of our program by working to catch more types of criminals. For example, we started Fugitive Stoppers, a partnership with the U.S.Marshals’ Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force to get…

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“Cash Mob” Invokes Strong Sense of Community

  In the late hours of February 22nd and the early morning of February 23rd, an unknown gunman robbed two businesses in the Atlanta Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. In the first incident, the suspect robbed and killed shop owner Suhrid…

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Should Georgia Outlaw Police Chases?

Thanks to Hollywood and nation-wide news coverage, the public considers police chases an integral part of law enforcement. Yet there are many who claim that these pursuits are dangerous, expensive, and ineffective. After a recent fatal crash involving a state…

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New Year’s Resolution: Stop Losses Before They Start!

Merchandise & Cash Company Property Supplies Food & Drinks   Part of everyone’s job is to protect the assets of the company that employs them and to treat them like their own.  There are many ways the company loses its…

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Are You an Online Bargain Hunter?

Well Black Friday and Cyber Monday have kicked off the holiday shopping season. To avoid those long lines, large crowds, and racing for a parking space, more people have been taking advantage of the online shopping deals. But just how…

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Parental Surprise

If you’re a parent of a teenager, chances are you don’t expect a call informing you that your child is in the custody of the juvenile authorities, or is being held by the loss prevention department of some retail store, and…

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Be Careful! Hit & Runs on the Rise

 There has been an increase in hit & run accidents in the metro Atlanta area. It seems that people are choosing self preservation instead of personal responsibility. In recent news, two victims were hit and killed while on the…

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Jeepers Creepers, Office Creepers

  An Office Creeper isn’t an insect and he doesn’t come out just at Halloween, but it is a critter you’d like to avoid. Creepers have also been known to pose as delivery personnel, service people, or maintenance men who are…

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Fraud Alert!

Committing fraud with the help of malware has increased over the years. Scammers are now creating more sophisticated phishing and malware scams that appear to come from “official” websites and government emails.  In a traditional phishing attack, the phisher attempts…

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