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.
Nashville police chief chases separate priorities — building trust and fighting crime — as he shuffles up the department
Reshuffling of the leadership and new policing initiatives have become the norm since John Drake became Nashville’s top cop a little over a year ago.
TBI investigations into shootings by Tennessee law enforcement are on the rise
State agents have launched their first investigation of the new year into a shooting by law enforcement.
A former Nashville police officer who pleaded guilty to manslaughter will not leave jail early, for now
Andrew Delke was scheduled to have a parole hearing Monday morning. Instead, he told officials he would waive his right to parole and stay behind bars to keep serving his three-year sentence.
After pushback, Nashville council decides to spend city money, not federal dollars, on police Tasers
Nashville’s police department wanted almost $6 million for new Tasers and had requested it come from the federal COVID relief money the city had been allocated. But Metro Council got pushback from the community and within its chambers on what the city’s priorities are for the pandemic money.
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