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Memphis Police Department say interstate shootings are increasing and road rage is at the center of many of the incidents. And a permitless carry law could make the situation worse, officials fear.
“I am just very alarmed that our state legislature is poised to pass permitless carry,” Rallings said.
The retired University of Memphis criminologist helped guide and develop the data-driven crime-fighting model.
Panelists made up of community leaders, law enforcement and city leaders spent Thursday interviewing seven finalists for the police director’s job.
The seven finalists to be the next police director for the City of Memphis include two who were fired from previous jobs and one who quit by text.
Some council members questioned why they, along with the public, will not get a chance to question the seven police candidates before Mayor Jim Strickland nominates one of them for the top police job.
Three MPD deputy chiefs and four police professionals outside the MPD are among the candidates being considered to succeed retiring Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland will make the decision and take it to Memphis City Council for confirmation.
“Crime reduction is clearly a complex conversation.”
Outgoing Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings discussed his retirement, violent crime and the future of MPD Tuesday, March 9, as he prepares to retire next month.
Gov. Bill Lee said he plans to reintroduce a constitutional carry bill. It’s a move local law enforcement leaders say they will once again oppose.
A man was arrested at an East Memphis area home and charged in a suspected cockfighting operation. Police and animal services seized more than 200 roosters and hens.
Austin Peay Station is part of the new $45 million Raleigh Springs Civic Center development at the former Raleigh Springs Mall site on Austin Peay Highway. The station serves as both a traffic and police precinct.
Patric Ferguson, a former MPD officer accused of kidnapping and fatally shooting a man last month, has waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Ferguson remains in jail with no bond.
The dashboard was called for by City Council members this past December and will be added to three city websites. No date was given for when the information will go live, but it will data back to 2016.
Michael Rallings retires in April. Mayor hopes to present candidate to City Council in mid-March.
A Memphis police officer charged with murder and kidnapping has resigned. MPD released his personnel files Tuesday, showing two incidents during his two years on the force.
A preliminary hearing has been set for Feb. 4 for the MPD officer charged with kidnapping and fatally shooting 30-year-old Robert Howard on Jan. 6.
Groups such as the Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods and Latin Kings are splintering into neighborhood cells with names like the Choppa Gang in Hickory Hill, Concrete Cartel in East Memphis, 4 Corners in Orange Mound, and Dixie Homes Murder Squad, Major Frank Winston of MPD’s Multi-Agency Gang Unit said.
Memphis ends 2020 with 332 homicides, a record number. Police say the pandemic played a part, but there is no easy answer to why the increase occurred.
In the discussion with Memphis City Council members Tuesday, Jan. 5, the police director said he can’t carry out plans of a city task force to reopen several community policing centers given the pandemic. He got immediate pushback from several council members.
Video showed several cars doing donuts in traffic on Interstate 240. Memphis police said they will not “tolerate criminal acts like this.”
Police said the driver was treated for minor injuries and no one else was hurt Christmas night when a car crashed into the main lobby of the hospital at 1265 Union Ave. in Midtown Memphis.
Domestic violence has exploded this year locally and across the country since the novel coronavirus struck – a pandemic within a pandemic that’s filled police blotters with a spike in accounts of extreme brutality.
The council also talks about limits on mufflers, a cleanup of the city’s code of ordinances and could take a final vote on a sidewalk change that would require a sidewalk inspection as part of the closing process in real estate sales.
Darren Goods, a veteran Memphis Police officer who was former head of the gang unit, has retired and taken a job with the state Department of Children Services.