Council debates police residency as new vote looms
Memphis Police Department Chief Cerelyn Davis, seen here in November, spoke about whether she had what she needed to recruit. “There are some things we can work on,” she said. “For the most part … I think we have the resources we need.” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Most council members abstained or didn’t vote Monday in a test vote on the new proposal to allow Memphis Police officers to live outside the county ,but within a 50-mile radius.
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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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