Six people, including three students, are dead following a shooting at Covenant School in Green Hills on Monday morning.
After a report showed long 911 wait times, Nashville police excluded more than 22,000 calls from its data
Nashville’s police department is recalculating response times for 911 calls going back several years. The move follows a recent report from the Community Oversight Board that found that wait times were twice as long — or even three times longer — than previous years.
Nashville police response times have ballooned since 2020. Oversight group says that damages faith in the department.
In 2020, it took only 10 minutes for Nashville police to respond to a call about a shooting. Two years later, that wait time had tripled to half an hour.
Nashville man cleared of murder after ‘a failure at every level of local law enforcement’ kept him imprisoned for 10 years
After nearly 22 years, Paul Shane Garrett was exonerated for murder. But why did it take the criminal justice system that long to clear an innocent man’s name?
Tyre Nichols case puts spotlight on Tennessee’s policing priorities
The beating of Tyre Nichols in police custody is renewing concerns about how top leaders are addressing police abuses statewide, including in Nashville.
Metro Nashville Police officers shoot and kill man in North Nashville
Edited video was released by the Metro Nashville Police Department early Monday morning. Metro Nashville Community Oversight says it is reviewing the incident.
In 2019, he was wrongfully arrested by MNPD. Now Nashville will pay him $236,000.
It was a Thursday night in 2019, and Ralph Ward had a busy day at work. He had a corporate job with T-Mobile and had also picked up a gig delivering packages for Amazon.
Metro Nashville Police fatally shoot man in Hermitage
Details are scant so far in the first fatal shooting by Nashville police in 2023. Last year, three people were fatally shot by Nashville police — two in November and one in January.
There’s been a steep rise in Nashville police using force — but it follows new requirements for officer reporting
Many large cities track the number of times police officers lay hands on civilians, but until this year Nashville did not. The change in reporting requirements has caused a balloon in use-of-force numbers.
Police shootings, executions on hold and guns in cars: WPLN’s top criminal justice stories
Tennessee’s criminal justice system has topped several lists this year — largely for lagging behind the rest of the country in reforms. WPLN’s Paige Pfleger picked three stories that defined the beat this year.