Democratic contenders for sheriff call for big changes
Contenders in the May Democratic primary for Shelby County sheriff are (from left to right) Anthony Buckner, Reginald Hubbard, Ricky Pollard, Michael Pope and Keisha Scott. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The candidate forum included discussion of a new jail and calls for more transparency in how the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office runs the jail and fights crime.
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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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