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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.
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 Memphis Police Department's first Black female chief. Shortly after accepting her job she required that her title be officially changed to Police Chief.
(Reuters) -The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday following an investigation, calling on the ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department routinely engages in policing that violates residents' civil rights and discriminates against Black people, the U.S. Department of Justice said in ...
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 ...
Memphis Police Department Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis walks back into Regional One after speaking to the media to state that a suspect had been arrested after a Memphis Police Department officer ...
The community effort was the genesis of the Memphis Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team. The Memphis CIT program has achieved remarkable success, in large part because it has remained a true community partnership. Today, the so-called "Memphis Model" has been adopted by more than 2,700 communities in the U.S. including other countries.
In Memphis, Black people are killed at a rate 1.5 times higher than their white counterparts, according to data from Mapping Police Violence. Everything we know about the Tyre Nichols case Tuesday ...