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Cerelyn "C. J." Davis (born 1959 or 1960) is an American police officer who is the 13th director of police service for the Memphis Police Department. Davis is the first black woman to become the Memphis Police Department's chief. Shortly after accepting her job she required that her title be officially changed to police chief.
The Memphis Police Department was founded in 1827. [6] In 1878, the 55-man police department was devastated by the yellow fever epidemic with all 55 officers stricken, and 10 officers dying. [6] By 1927, the city's murder rate was 69.3 per 100,000 population, the highest in the country.
Kirkpatrick began her career in law enforcement with the Memphis Police Department, and in Washington State was a police officer in Redmond and then a college instructor in criminal justice. She later served as Chief of Police for five years each in Ellensburg , Federal Way , and finally Spokane , from which position she retired in 2012 to ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Arkansas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 237 law enforcement agencies employing 6,779 sworn police officers, about 236 for each 100,000 residents.
The police chief in Memphis, where protests ignited after police beat a Black man to death, has been in the national spotlight since the incident occurred. Cerelyn Davis, who goes by C.J., is a ...
On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him. Nichols broke free and ran toward ...
There was a five-hour wake the day before the funeral on April 1, 1968. [8] Six hundred attended his funeral at Clayborn Temple on April 2, 1968. [9] Striking sanitation workers, clergy members who supported the strike, and national television representatives were all in attendance, as well as the students and faculty of Mitchell Road High School where Payne was enrolled prior to his death.
A Memphis City Council committee voted Tuesday to replace police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis a year after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers generated intense criticism of her ...