Crime & Public Safety

Marietta police SUV parked at the curb on Marietta Square

Crime & Public Safety May 5, 2026

Upstairs neighbor suspected in Marietta shooting death

By Mark Woolsey [The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law…

Cobb County Police Department sign in front of headquarters

Crime & Public Safety May 5, 2026

Two dead after Cobb SWAT standoff Identified as Mother and Son

By Mark Woolsey Cobb County police now say the man and woman found dead in an East Cobb home after an hours-long standoff were a mother and son. Police say…

Cobb County Police Department Crime Scene Unit vehicle parked in a marked space

Crime & Public Safety May 4, 2026

Cobb County police investigate deadly East Cobb standoff

By Mark Woolsey Two people are dead in a Cobb County SWAT standoff which developed after officers stopped by an East Cobb home on a welfare check call. The officers…

Crime & Public Safety May 3, 2026

Cobb attorney arrested for alleged pandering, sexual battery

[The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law or enters a…

Sign for the Cobb County Adult Detention Center facility

Crime & Public Safety May 1, 2026

Cobb jail to be without hot water May 4 while boilers are replaced

The Cobb Sheriff’s Office distributed the following announcement about a scheduled temporary outage of hot water at he Cobb County Adult Detention Center: The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office will be…

Crime & Public Safety May 1, 2026

Immigration street sweeps led to more ‘collateral’ arrests of noncriminals

by Tim Henderson, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission May 1, 2026 A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S….

The word "immigration" wrapped around the upper part of a world globe while walking people are on the lower part

Crime & Public Safety April 30, 2026

Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders

This article by by Naisha Roy, Northwestern University, and Francesca D’Annunzio and J. David McSwane, originally appeared on the ProPublica website. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence…

Crime & Public Safety April 30, 2026

Supreme Court considers whether police can use Big Tech data to capture info from all cellphone users in a place and time

by Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Google tracks the vast majority of cellphones in the United States, collecting your location,…

A schoolhouse with books superimposed on the front

Crime & Public Safety April 29, 2026

Students are taught to hide in closets and under tables if there is a school shooting – but does practicing for this possibility keep kids safe?

by James Densley, Metropolitan State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] There have been 63 school shootings – meaning any time there is gunfire on…

Crime & Public Safety April 23, 2026

GBI investigating the fatal shooting of suspect in Cobb County

By Mark Woolsey Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Cobb County in which the suspect was ultimately killed (follow this link to read the GBI…

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Opinion October 21, 2026