Ramos was the department’s first female and longest-serving police chief in over 20 years. Former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond hired Ramos in 2019 after she spent 22 years in the Miami ...

In January, a DeKalb County police officer was indicted for murder in the March 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed and naked civilian. Officer Robert Olsen was not wearing a body camera.