Those opposed to the creation of a city of Dunwoody have recently pointed to Decatur to make a point.

In this morning’s AJC, the opposition to city creation note that the new city would have only 28 full-time officers compared to Decatur’s 36.  For some, this is cause for concern, since Dunwoody has nearly double the population of Decatur.

But Ken Wright, president of Citizens for Dunwoody Inc, points out that the proposed four patrols is an improvement over what they’re getting now with DeKalb County services.

“A city of Dunwoody will have four patrols,” Wright said in an e-mail, “fully dedicated and assigned only to serving Dunwoody. Right now, because our ‘assigned’ patrols can be called away at any time to service other parts of the county, we have somewhere between zero and three police patrols.”

Plus, North DeKalb has “substantially lower than average crime rates,” according to a 2006 Dunwoody study by the Vinson Institute.  Comparatively, Central DeKalb’s a bit more rough and tumble by my own estimations (which are as highly-regarded as a Gallup Poll).

Sounds like those Dunwoody opponents are trying to stir up trouble prior to the city vote.  But any comparison to Decatur doesn’t really make any sense unless Dunwoody was secretly trying some impossible breakaway from Decatur and not DeKalb.