DA challenger: Cummings, Collierville shootings show need for change
Former federal prosecutor Linda Harris, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Shelby County District Attorney General, talks to the media outside Cummings K-8 School on Friday, Oct. 1. Harris discussed shootings at the school and at a Collierville Kroger, saying “It’s an epidemic of violence.” (Brad Vest/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Former federal prosecutor Linda Harris said Memphians are becoming “desensitized” to violence and that current remedies aren’t working. Harris is one of several candidates who plan to challenge incumbents in the criminal justice system by calling for change.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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