The Atlanta Police Dept, along with East Point and Fulton County police, are creating a task force to deal with the rampant flat-screen television theft in the Atlanta metro area.

According to the AJC, the task force is a lot like the one created last summer to deal with the “blue jean bandits”.  The article continues…”The group, which will meet every other Thursday, will pinpoint neighborhoods in the county that have the heaviest number of burglaries and try to identify those involved in the crimes, through surveillance, undercover decoys and other police tactics, Williams said.”

Perhaps Decatur will also soon join this task force, since we’ve seen our fair-share of flat-screen theft.

Also, might I suggest that they wrap GPS theft into this flat-screen task-force?  These two electronics are so frequently stolen, it almost seems like there is some sort of clearinghouse where these items can be quickly sold onto the black market.

Scott is good enough to point out this note on the Oakhurst message board…

Apparently, there was a break in attempt made yesterday on Johnston, and the 3 suspects were arrested!!  They are in jail right now, and have confessed to some break ins.  I was told that these guys are not the same guys that broke into the house that was in East Atlanta (they were able to tell because the other guys were video taped).  Last week, Dekalb police arrested another group of two–a female and a teenager.

The details that I got were limited–but thought that I would relay the good news to everyone.

Now as many have pointed out, these break-ins aren’t limited to Oakhurst, so we would be naive to think that the threat has been eliminated and heft our big screens back over our fireplaces.  But maybe these arrests will quell the recent string of break-ins that have recently plagued the neighborhood.