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Brownstein's Bakery and Deli in Brighton closed its doors to the public for the last time Sunday.

Amid a rise in crime and an officer shortage, Atlanta Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit met with citizens for a safety training seminar on Saturday in the hopes of engaging the community to aid in crime prevention.

Officers have a program where they will come and inspect your property and point out tips they believe will deter criminal activity.

UpdatedFri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:45 pm CT Replies(6) The incident took place Thursday in the 1400 block of Fairway Drive. (Shutterstock) NAPERVILLE, IL — An unoccupied car in Naperville that turned out to be stolen led police to recover guns, ammunition, drugs and another stolen car Thursday. Three men were arrested in connection with the incident. Police say they found the car, which had been reported stolen in an armed carjacking in Chicago, in the 1400 block of Fairway Drive. After observin...

>> brown wanted to demote or fire 38 people. >> he fired a lot of people. he was asking for some serious investigations to occur. so there were a lot of people who were concerned and maybe upset about the reforms that were about to take place under his administration. >> on december 15th, 2000, derwin graduated from the state sheriffs academy. and it was phyllis birthday. in three days, he was scheduled to be sworn in. there would be a double celebration. family and friends joined campaign worke...

>> paul skyers testified that derwin brown was assassinated to pave the way for sidney dorseys comeback. the four co-conspirators, he said, were all promised promotions for killing brown. >> it was a very demented understanding and very irrational. but he believed that there would be a special election in which he could retake his office. >> full weight of the evidence against these two guys brought in the conspiracy that sid dorsey ordered it, brought in patrick cuffy, who was their star witnes...

911, i peeked through the blind, and between the two cars that were parked in my driveway, i saw two bags. i fully expected to find derwin crouched down either between the two cars or crouched down between the first car and the door. >> so she said, i got to go. and -- so she went out. and i came out behind her. and as soon as we stepped out the door, derwin was laying right there to the left of the door. >> i knelt down to derwin and i told him, just hold on. you know, just hold on. and that wa...

Newspapers called a wild west shootout in his suburban atlanta front yard. cuffy had be ex-sheriff dorseys right-hand man and worked in dorseys private security firm and he was one of the deputies that derwin brown planned to fire. police had been watching cuffy for months. >> cuffy was, himself, kind of like a mini cult leader within the sheriffs office. when the police were able to fixate on cuffy, that led to them being able to see if they could solve the derwin brown assassination by making ...

Prosecutors said this was not double jeopardy because the federal charges were conspiracy to commit murder for hire under federal racketeering statutes. >> a political assassination is a crime that affects not only the family and the community but the very system that we all support and that supports us. >> again the brown family, with phyllis continuing to weaken, was present every day of the trial at the federal courthouse in atlanta. it was the third trial since derwin brown died. u.s. attorn...

With anyone. >> how dare they. how dare they. >> dorseys team tried to blame it all on patrick cuffy. >> no evidence that sidney dorseys involved and then telling a murderer, we know youre involved, but youll walk out of here if you say the name sidney dorsey. >> the only person who had the motive to kill derwin brown is none other than sidney dorsey, himself. >> and through it all sat phyllis brown, the final witness. >> im sorry. i looked to my left on the ground, and derwin was lying there. >...