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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
Criminal records in the United States contain records of arrests, criminal charges and the disposition of those charges. [1] Criminal records are compiled and updated on local, state, and federal levels by government agencies, [2] most often law enforcement agencies. Their primary purpose is to present a comprehensive criminal history for a ...
HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff's department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago, where he was arrested last week after a 15-hour ...
The state made substantial amounts of money from these arrangements, which created an incentive to have minor infractions criminalized in order to arrest more people and sentence them. Increasing the number of crimes for which persons could be arrested, such as vagrancy, resulted in an increased pool of prisoners to lease out, as many could not ...
Jennifer and Brandon Sheffield were found dead by gunshot wounds in an apparent murder-suicide by police in Mississippi on Dec. 28, according to reports
The incident happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday in the city of Olive Branch, located about 25 miles outside of Memphis, the local police department confirmed to USA TODAY.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Hernando is the county seat of DeSoto County, on the northwestern border of Mississippi, United States. [5] The population was 17,138 according to the 2020 census records. [ 6 ] It is located on the south side of the Memphis, Tennessee metro area .