Nashville’s police department has requested nearly $1 million for technology that alerts officers when a gun is fired. The goal is to get police to the scene of a shooting sooner. But evidence of the tool’s effectiveness is mixed.
After years of high dropout rates for women, Nashville’s police academy graduates a class that’s 40% female
The Nashville police academy’s latest graduating class is 40% female — a large jump from past years.
Who will fill three open seats on Nashville’s police oversight board? Here are the nominees.
Nashville’s Metro Council will vote Tuesday night to fill several open seats on the watchdog board that oversees the police department.
Rethinking The Police Academy: As Nashville’s police academy grapples with high dropout rates, new leaders tone down the stress
Nashville’s police academy has struggled to graduate women and people of color. But a new administration is making changes to try to attract and better prepare a more diverse set of officers.
Rethinking The Police Academy: Why are many departments still using military-style training when research suggests it’s not the best option?
Recent shootings by police have raised questions about how officers are trained. But those conversations have mostly focused on the classes recruits take, not the environment in which they learn.
Rethinking The Police Academy: Nashville’s police department wants to diversify, but its training program has failed many women and people of color
About 1,000 police recruits didn’t complete in recent years. Despite the department’s desire to diversify the force, women and people of color dropped out at the highest rates.
Mental health clinicians often aren’t on the scene when police interactions turn deadly. Here’s why.
The interstate was filled law enforcement last Thursday when nine officers from different agencies shot and killed Landon Eastep. Many in Nashville are wondering why no mental health counselors were there to calm things down.
‘He was crying out for help’: Landon Eastep’s widow questions law enforcement after 9 officers shot her husband on the side of a Nashville interstate
Once again, investigations are underway, body camera footage is circulating, loved ones are grieving and a city is left to wonder: Why have so many recent encounters with police turned violent?
TBI investigating late afternoon shooting on I-65
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says agents are at the scene of a shooting on I-65 after Nashville police, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man while, they say, they were responding to reports of a person with a box cutter.
Nashville’s police oversight agency recommends discipline for an officer who shot and injured a man in 2020
The civilian-run agency that oversees the Metro Nashville Police Department has completed its first investigation into a police shooting and believes the officer who fired should be punished.
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