ATLANTA - Some Atlanta community leaders have now called for a new police precinct building.

The safety leaders say the current facility in police Precinct Zone 6 in East Atlanta is substandard, outdated, and has been remediated for mold.

They say they took their pleas to Mayor Andre Dickens a couple of months ago.

What they're saying:

"They put their lives on the line every day for all of us," said Phyllis Wingo, the security chair for the Morningside-Lenox Park Association. She says the officers who protect and serve us every day deserve a clean, safe and secure precinct.

That's why she and leaders from 24 other neighborhoods, like Old Fourth Ward, Candler Park, Poncey-Highland and Sweet Auburn, reached out to Mayor Andre Dickens with their concerns.

"We sent a letter to the mayo

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