Retired MPD colonel still wants police review board with few limits, more bite
Memphis police officers wait behind a locked gate during a protest at the Ridgeway police station Jan. 29. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
CLERB chairman James Kirkwood talks in The Daily Memphian’s “On The Record” podcast about the review board’s possible role in investigating allegations of police misconduct, pending legislation in Nashville.
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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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