Fulton County’s diversion center was designed to serve more than 40 people a day, but on average serves just three people a day, as most low-level offenders stay behind bars.
The service for Officer Pradeep Tamang takes place at 10 a.m. Saturday at 12Stone Church, Lawrenceville. Members of the community are invited to line the procession route.
The 25-year-old officer, who had been on the job less than a year, was fatally shot and another was critically injured responding to a fraud call at an Atlanta hotel.