Nashville’s Metro Council will soon consider several proposals to spend federal coronavirus relief dollars on public safety.
Here’s what we know about the 10 shootings by Nashville police in 2021
Metro Nashville Police Department officers have shot 10 people in 2021 — seven fatally. That far surpasses the total in any year since the department started tracking these incidents in 2005. And it doesn’t count two additional instances when young men shot and killed themselves during encounters with officers.
Nashville’s police oversight board votes to oppose license plate readers
The civilian-run board that supervises Nashville’s police department says it does not want the city to expand its use of license plate readers.
Fatal shooting by Nashville police officer under investigation in Madison
The Metro Nashville Police Department has not yet released the identity of a man who was shot and killed by officers near a park in Madison. The shooting was the 10th by Nashville police in 2021, and the seventh to be fatal.
After the latest Nashville police shooting, one family wants changes to officer training
The ninth shooting by local police this year raises questions about how officers are trained to interact with the rising number of Tennesseans who have guns.
Here’s what we know about the latest shooting by Nashville police — the ninth in 2021
Body camera footage of a shooting by a Nashville police officer Monday shows how a roadside encounter quickly turned to gunfire, with the officer pulling the trigger less than a minute after he got out of his car.
Nashville police officer shoots man in the leg while responding to traffic crash
Nashville police say a 20-year-old is in stable condition after he was shot Monday afternoon by an officer in Goodlettsville.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says unvaccinated cops from New York to L.A. are welcome in his state
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is offering moving costs, full benefits, a car, free uniforms and free training to qualified applicants, including those who have to leave other departments because they haven’t gotten the COVID vaccine.
Nashville police adds violent crime unit, in latest embrace of a new strategy
The latest effort in MNPD Chief John Drake’s “precision policing” philosophy is a new Violent Crime Division to investigate carjackings, armed robberies and other serial violent crimes.
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