Memphis mayor plans task force to address police reform
Memphis Mayor Paul Young discusses the U.S. Justice Department report on the Memphis Police Department, MATA funding and more during the podcast version of the WKNO-TV program, “Behind The Headlines.” (Ziggy Mack/The Daily Memphian file)
Paul Young offered more detail in a Behind The Headlines interview on what’s next for MPD after a scathing federal report into the department’s policies and practices.
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Behind The Headlines Paul Young pattern or practice review U.S. Justice Department Memphis Police Department Subscriber OnlyThank you for being a subscriber to The Daily Memphian. Your support is critical.
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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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