Bottoms on Atlanta crime: 'I take it very seriously' | News
As the city of Atlanta hosted a news conference to address its 154th homicide of the year, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she takes the issue of crime âvery seriously.â âI want to be clear: I know what Iâm responsible for in the city and I take it very seriously,â she said at the Dec. 29 conference, where she and two Atlanta Police Department leaders spoke about the police identifying and issuing warrants for a suspect in the Dec. 21 Buckhead shooting of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie, who died five days later. âIf thereâs something weâre not doing and we ha...