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Cop City: A Police Tactical Training Section That Imitates Real Life Events
The project started all the way back in 2016, but fell off until 2021 when it was brought about again by the Atlantic Police Foundation. Part of this facility will be essentially a police tactical training section that imitates real life. They would argue that it's to simulate active shooter events. More often than active shooter events, police are used to put down protest events and that is also where this would be practiced. So that's how the cop city name came about. There was 17 hours of virtual public comment, 70% of it was against passing this lease to build the facility.
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