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wearebreitbart Rising crime in Atlanta has driven community members of Buckhead, a wealthy residential and commercial suburb of the city, to pursue separating off of Atlanta to create Buckhead City, which would have, among other typical city features, its own police department.The grassroots effort has gained traction in recent months, resulting in the formation of the Buckhead City Committee, a 501c4 that is now formally seeking Buckhead cityhood.The committee launched the process to de-annex Buckhead from Atlanta this year by sending a notice to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) and having state lawmakers introduce two cityhood bills, a Senate and House version, into the Georgia General Assembly on March 31, the last day of the legislative session. Because cityhood requires two sessions’ worth of review, the Assembly will pick the bills back up when the next session begins in January and possibly vote on them later in the year. The bills would allow for Buckhead’s approximately 90,000 residents to vote on cityhood via ballot referendum in November 2022.Buckhead City Committee CEO Bill White likened the move to a marriage divorce, telling Breitbart News, “At a certain point you realize you have — literally they call it ‘irreconcilable differences’ — and the only way to civilly handle that is to file for divorce in a marriage.”