Strickland touts police pay raise proposal in State of the City address
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s state of the city address Wednesday, Jan. 26, to the Memphis Kiwanis Club marked the halfway point of his second term of office. (Daily Memphian/Bill Dries)
In addition to the pay raises, Strickland again called for changes in state laws, particularly around gun crimes, and doubled down on his earlier declaration that the local criminal justice system is a “revolving door.”
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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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