After nearly a year of debate, Nashville’s Metro Council has officially rejected Fusus, a police surveillance technology.
Advocates urge MNPD reforms after allegations of misconduct
Council members and advocates are pushing for Metro Nashville Police to institute a zero-tolerance sexual misconduct policy.
Tennessee Democrats condemn neo-Nazis who yelled slurs at Black children in downtown Nashville
White supremacists have made several appearances in Nashville over the past few weeks: marching with swastika flags, interrupting a Metro Council meeting and, last Saturday, screaming racial slurs at a group of young, Black boys who were playing drums downtown.
After prior pushback, Nashville police get funding for a new round of Tasers
Police tasers, and the debates they spur, returned to Nashville’s council chambers this week as members approved a $15 million contract to outfit the city’s police department with new models.
Nashville judge to rule on whether the Covenant School assailant’s journals go public
The judge had been prepared to release the ruling when a news outlet suing for the documents’ release published leaked pages of the assailant’s journal.
‘It has its roots in the blood of Black folks’: Community leaders take a stand for Nashville’s police review board
A retired police lieutenant alleged that at least two top police officials worked with state lawmakers to dissolve the Community Oversight Board charged with keeping them accountable. Now a second complaint has been filed, and the newly constituted board has set up a confidential hotline for other police employees to share concerns.
How a second leak of the Covenant School assailant’s journals impacts an ongoing court case
Conservative news site, The Tennessee Star, may be in legal trouble for publishing leaked pages of the Covenant School assailant’s journals. The Star is a plaintiff in an ongoing lawsuit to compel Nashville Police to release the writings.
Timeline: Nashville’s 50-year fight for a police oversight board, and how it continues today
Recent allegations in an MNPD internal affairs complaint are the latest in a tense history of Nashvillians fighting for police oversight.
Nashville voted for police oversight in 2018. Now a complaint says top MNPD officials worked to end the COB.
A retired Nashville police lieutenant has claimed that at least two high-ranking MNPD officials worked to overturn the city’s Community Oversight Board — and the department’s top leadership knew about it.
WPLN obtained a detailed, 61-page complaint alleging a pattern of leadership misconduct at MNPD. Here’s what we know.
A retired Metro Nashville Police lieutenant has filed a 61-page complaint containing dozens of allegations related to what he describes as MNPD’s lack of transparency and resistance to accountability. WPLN News sat down with the retired officer to learn more.
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