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Cop City
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus in the South River Forest located in Southwest DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of the land included in the plans was formerly part of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, which was abandoned in 1995. The facility opened on April 29, 2025.
The project was proposed by the City of Atlanta in 2021, and met a multi-faceted movement opposing the construction of the training center. In January 2023, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, an environmental activist and member of the Stop Cop City movement, was fatally shot by Atlanta police after allegedly firing a weapon at officers attempting to evict them from an encampment, drawing national and international attention and escalating conflict around the project.
Stop Cop City protestors arrested in late 2022 and early 2023 were charged with domestic terrorism; the appropriateness of these charges has been criticized by civil liberties advocates. In September 2023, sixty-one people were indicted with racketeering under the state's RICO law, in what is likely the largest criminal conspiracy case ever filed against protestors in the US. As of April 2025, the RICO defendants had not gone to trial.
The facility occupies 85 acres (34 ha) owned by the City of Atlanta in the South River Forest, DeKalb County, Georgia. The city promised the development would also include 265 acres (107 ha) of green-space, though fact-checkers have found that the size of the promised green space was "oversold by at least 40%."
Construction of the center began in spring 2023. The $118 million cost of the facility was shared by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta, with the city paying $67 million for the project, though the originally promised taxpayer cost was $30 million.
The center opened in April 2025 for use as a training campus for police and fire services. Facilities include classrooms, a burn building, a mock city (including apartments, a bar/nightclub, and a school), and a shooting range.
Following Black Lives Matter protests in the US in 2014, funding for police training at all levels of government skyrocketed, and some cities proposed additional police training facilities. A similar facility was approved in New York City in 2015 following the police killing of Eric Garner, and also in Chicago following a string of police killings in that city between 2014 and 2016.
The Muscogee peoples lived in the area of the South River Forest until the 1830s, when the United States federal government forcibly removed most of the community to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) during the Trail of Tears. The name for this land in the Muscogee language was "Weelaunee," translatable as "brown water [place]." The Muscogee people harvested from the forest for their needs, including acorn flour for food and hickory wood for toolmaking.
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Cop City
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus in the South River Forest located in Southwest DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of the land included in the plans was formerly part of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, which was abandoned in 1995. The facility opened on April 29, 2025.
The project was proposed by the City of Atlanta in 2021, and met a multi-faceted movement opposing the construction of the training center. In January 2023, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, an environmental activist and member of the Stop Cop City movement, was fatally shot by Atlanta police after allegedly firing a weapon at officers attempting to evict them from an encampment, drawing national and international attention and escalating conflict around the project.
Stop Cop City protestors arrested in late 2022 and early 2023 were charged with domestic terrorism; the appropriateness of these charges has been criticized by civil liberties advocates. In September 2023, sixty-one people were indicted with racketeering under the state's RICO law, in what is likely the largest criminal conspiracy case ever filed against protestors in the US. As of April 2025, the RICO defendants had not gone to trial.
The facility occupies 85 acres (34 ha) owned by the City of Atlanta in the South River Forest, DeKalb County, Georgia. The city promised the development would also include 265 acres (107 ha) of green-space, though fact-checkers have found that the size of the promised green space was "oversold by at least 40%."
Construction of the center began in spring 2023. The $118 million cost of the facility was shared by the Atlanta Police Foundation and the City of Atlanta, with the city paying $67 million for the project, though the originally promised taxpayer cost was $30 million.
The center opened in April 2025 for use as a training campus for police and fire services. Facilities include classrooms, a burn building, a mock city (including apartments, a bar/nightclub, and a school), and a shooting range.
Following Black Lives Matter protests in the US in 2014, funding for police training at all levels of government skyrocketed, and some cities proposed additional police training facilities. A similar facility was approved in New York City in 2015 following the police killing of Eric Garner, and also in Chicago following a string of police killings in that city between 2014 and 2016.
The Muscogee peoples lived in the area of the South River Forest until the 1830s, when the United States federal government forcibly removed most of the community to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) during the Trail of Tears. The name for this land in the Muscogee language was "Weelaunee," translatable as "brown water [place]." The Muscogee people harvested from the forest for their needs, including acorn flour for food and hickory wood for toolmaking.