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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Nina Lakhani

Investment fund links to Atlanta police and ‘Cop City’ project revealed

The Atlanta police foundation has helped Atlanta become the most surveilled city in the US.
The Atlanta police foundation has helped Atlanta become the most surveilled city in the US. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

A new investigation has uncovered connections between private equity firms and the contentious development of a sprawling police and fire service training complex in Atlanta known as “Cop City” and the police force which fatally shot an environmental activist.

Private equity refers to an opaque form of financing away from public markets in which funds and investors manage money for wealthy individuals and institutional investors such as university endowments and state employee pension funds.

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