Cop City
| Atlanta Public Safety Training Center | |
|---|---|
Architect's drawing of the training campus | |
| Alternative names | Cop City |
| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Location | South River Forest, DeKalb County, Georgia, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 33°41′38″N 84°20′10″W / 33.69383°N 84.33606°W |
| Cost | $118 million |
| Owner | Atlanta Police Foundation (majority investor) |
| Landlord | City of Atlanta |
| Grounds | 85 acres (34.4 ha) |
| Design and construction | |
| Engineer | Terracon |
| Website | |
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The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus in 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 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, a member of the Stop Cop City movement, was fatally shot by Atlanta police, 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.