Did Trump’s return prompt the release of DOJ report on MPD?
The last U.S. Justice Department review of the Memphis Police Department never made it to the public.
And the timing of the decision that scrapped the report in 2017 is similar to the political environment surrounding the DOJ report released Wednesday, Dec. 4.
The release of the Justice Department report on its investigation into MPD and the city’s refusal — at least for now — to sign off on a plan for federal oversight of the police department comes about a month and a half before President-elect Donald Trump takes office again.
The first question at Thursday’s DOJ press conference on the new report was whether it was released in anticipation of Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
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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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