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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.
The Memphis Police Association celebrated its 50th anniversary and rededicated its headquarters in honor of Congressman Harold Ford Sr. on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023.
The Memphis City Council in April 2023 passed a slate of police reform ordinances after Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black motorist, was pulled over and fatally beaten by Memphis police officers.
More than 70 Memphis police officers have asked a Shelby County Circuit Court judge to allow them to join the legal battle over a new police rank.
The report comes after a 16-month-long pattern-or-practice investigation into the Memphis Police Department. According to the DOJ, the department was found to use excessive force and conduct ...
Memphis will not agree to negotiate federal oversight of its police department until it can review and challenge results of a yet-to-be-released Department of Justice investigation into how its ...
The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols exposed serious problems in the Memphis police department, from excessive force to mistreatment of Black people in the majority-Black city, according to a report ...
Three former Memphis police officers charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after they punched, kicked and struck him with a baton in an attack ...