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In 2020, Jackson reached a then record-breaking 128 homicides, according to records obtained by the Clarion Ledger. The city then saw 155 homicides in 2021 with the highest per capita murder rate ...
Pam Dankins, Mississippi Clarion Ledger May 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM Jackson police arrested a man suspected of shooting a person in the head at an apartment complex Wednesday, according to Public ...
Graves: 5 years in prison. James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon. At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.
Killing of George Robinson. On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi. According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times ...
The department was accredited for the first time by the Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission in 2016. At that time, JPD was the largest of 27 police departments accredited in Mississippi. In 2020, JPD opened a Real-Time Crime Center, where officers could access 600 public and private surveillance cameras in the city.
Jackson had 12 homicides in January, putting the capital city in near record pace to when it led the nation in per capita murders in 2021. “Jacksonians deserve to live in peace, and they should ...
Rankin County torture incident. On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that ...
Unsafe road conditions have led the City of Jackson to face at least 13 lawsuits from citizens who sustained bodily injuries after vehicular crashes, including two wrongful death lawsuits and one ...