City Council votes on police reform serve as backdrop for larger debate
Rev. Rosalyn Nichols of MICAH says the social justice group and other advocates of police reform will remain vocal as a final vote nears on a set of six Memphis Police reforms by the City Council. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Memphis City Council members could take final votes Tuesday, March 6, on a set of six police reform ordinances. The proposals are surrounded by a debate about crime in Memphis.
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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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