City Council to take first vote on police residency
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis (shown at a Nov. 10 crime forum) has presented a new plan for growing the police force by a net gain of 300 officers over the next two years. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The first-reading vote to put the item on the August 2022 ballot comes at the last council meeting of 2021.
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