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MNPD

What is going on with FUSUS?

By Elizabeth Burton

January 25, 2024

What’s going on with FUSUS? And how do you even say it?

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: FUSUS, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council, police, surveillance

Local Jewish organization says ‘we are not going to be intimidated’ after bomb threats

By Rose Gilbert

December 18, 2023

The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville announced that it and several other local Jewish organizations received emailed bomb threats on Sunday.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, MNPD, Religon

MNPD ends investigation into leaked Covenant shooting documents — with no answers

By Marianna Bacallao

December 8, 2023

Nashville police have ended the investigation into who leaked documents related to the Covenant School shooting — without an answer as to how three pages of the assailant’s journal ended up in the hands of a conservative YouTuber.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Covenant School, Glenn Funk, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD

Metro Nashville police officer fatally shoots man during a hostage situation

By Paige Pfleger

October 10, 2023

A Metro Nashville police officer shot and killed a man at a home in Antioch Monday night.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: MNPD, police shooting, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

Nashville’s Metro Council jumps right into business in its first meeting of the term

By Cynthia Abrams

October 4, 2023

Nashville Metro Council October 2023

Nashville’s newly elected Metro Council wasted no time, as it kicked off its term Tuesday night.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Angie Henderson, District Council members, Freddie O'Connell, Hillsboro High School, Jeff Preptit, mayor, Metro Government, MNPD, MNPS, school resource officers, Seamus Purdy, SRO, SROs, vice mayor

Exploring Metro Nashville police lawsuits and settlements

By Elizabeth Burton

August 7, 2023

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In a perfect world, there is no need to sue your local police department. But we live in Nashville. 

Filed Under: Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD

Nashville gathers to honor those killed in the Covenant School shooting

By Alexis Marshall

March 30, 2023

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Hundreds gathered in Public Square Park Wednesday evening to mourn the six victims of Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School. While the main programming didn’t directly address the issue of gun violence, community members in the audience did.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Covenant School, gun violence, Mayor John Cooper, MNPD

6 people, including children, were fatally shot at a Green Hills school. Police say the shooter is also dead.

By Rachel Iacovone, Paige PflegerandAlexis Marshall

March 27, 2023

Six people, including three students, are dead following a shooting at Covenant School in Green Hills on Monday morning.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Covenant School, Don Aaron, John Cooper, John Drake, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD, nashville fire department

After a report showed long 911 wait times, Nashville police excluded more than 22,000 calls from its data

By Paige Pfleger

March 6, 2023

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.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, Metro Nashville Police Department, MNPD

Nashville police response times have ballooned since 2020. Oversight group says that damages faith in the department.

By Paige Pfleger

March 1, 2023

A patrol car in downtown Nashville.

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.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, MNPD, police

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