Mayor Jim Strickland doubles down on ‘broken’ criminal justice system on WKNO
“If you shoot at somebody, you ought to serve 8, 9, 10 years,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said on “Behind the Headlines.” “Now if they die, it should be more.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks about coming to the end of his 8-year tenure as mayor in the first part of a two-part interview on “Behind The Headlines.”
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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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