There are 4 article(s) tagged Bill Adkins:

• April 2022

  • Local witness relocation program asks individuals to share crime info with authorities

    “That whole anti-snitch thing is destroying us right now. It was not meant to go all of these years and to morph into what it is now.”

    By Julia Baker April 13, 2022

• June 2021

  • Relocation program to help protect crime victims, witnesses

    Shelby County Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich, law enforcement and advocates announced a new relocation program to be offered to victims and witnesses of crime who may be intimidated or afraid to testify in criminal cases. 

    By Yolanda Jones June 21, 2021

• April 2021

  • Adkins says violent crime makes new police director decision urgent

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Greater Imani Pastor Rev. Bill Adkins says the case can be made for a new director from MPD ranks or for someone from the outside. Adkins also said he sees a new indifference to violent crime that calls for new solutions as well as new ways of policing the city.

    By Bill Dries April 17, 2021

• February 2020

  • Bloomberg supporters ask, ‘What is the strategy?’

    Early voting opens Wednesday in Shelby County in the Tennessee presidential primaries. 

    By Bill Dries February 11, 2020