Rallings says technology ‘vital’ for modern police work
The City of Memphis hopes to amend a 40-year-old consent decree so police officers could use technology more freely in their work. Pictured above, an officer monitors the video board at the Southwest Tennessee Community College’s police headquarters on Union. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings said Thursday, June 18, that technology, including social media, is vital to the department, and he fears the 1978 Kendrick Consent Decree will stop his department from doing its job.
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Yolanda Jones covers criminal justice issues and general assignment news for The Daily Memphian. She previously was a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.
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