Key points:
• Tucker-Northlake CID completed a public safety assessment last year.
• Business owners, visitors, and residents are invited to take the survey, which should take between 10 and 12 minutes to complete.
• The survey is open until Jan. 31.
Tucker residents and business owners are invited to offer their feedback on 911 call times and overall public safety in the city.
The Tucker-Northlake Community Improvement District, in partnership with the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, completed a public safety assessment and feasibility study last year. As a part of the process, the groups are now gathering feedback from those who live, work, or spend time in Tucker regarding their experiences and perceptions around public safety.
Tucker safety priorities
“The goal is simply to collect community input that will inform conversations with city and county leaders about safety priorities and service delivery,” said Rachel Tobin, Tucker-Northlake Community CID spokesperson. “The CID would like to hear from as many people as possible—residents, business owners, employees, visitors — to get a complete picture of how people experience safety in Tucker.”
The Tucker-Northlake CID public safety and feasibility study concluded that Tucker having its own dedicated police department would be financially feasible and improve 911 response times. The study “analyzed two years of 911 dispatch data, interviewed business and civic leaders and compared Tucker’s current policing structure with those of neighboring cities,” according to a Tucker-Northlake CID statement.
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CID versus county findings
In November, DeKalb County Police Department and DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson met with residents and discussed how the study did not consider the ongoing financial costs of maintaining a police force and physical station.
“Several oversights [in the CID study] significantly affect cost projections and undermine the accuracy of the data, including pension, retirement, training, recruitment, ammunition, mental health, housing allowances, ongoing technology investment, special service divisions, and more,” Cochran-Johnson said at the time.
The CID study and the county findings aligned on the ongoing issues with emergency response times and concerning crime trends on Main Street and Juliette Road. Tucker’s total number of crimes increased slightly from 1075 from January to July of 2024 to 1,131 incidents for that same period in 2025.
There are two versions of the surveys, which should take between 10 and 12 minutes to complete, and both are open until Jan. 31. The business survey is available at this link. The survey for visitors and residents can be completed at this link.