Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of jail and prison inmates under his care and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without permission.
Tennessee officers accused of shielding a man committing sex crimes. Police deny extortion.
A federal lawsuit claims police officers in a Tennessee city were paid off to obstruct any efforts to investigate sexual assault allegations against a man that included multiple victims over several years. The Johnson City Police Department has denied the accusation.
Update: Nashville restaurant mass shooting suspect arrested
One man is dead and multiple people were injured after a shooting in a Salemtown restaurant on Sunday afternoon, Nashville police confirmed.
What is going on with FUSUS?
What’s going on with FUSUS? And how do you even say it?
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.
The family of a man shot by Mt. Juliet police wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate
Late last year, a Mt. Juliet police officer fatally shot 39-year-old Eric Jermaine Allen. Last week, a Wilson County grand jury decided not to pursue charges against Police Sgt. Josh Lo. Now, Allen’s family and local organizers are calling for Lo to face a federal investigation.
After Tyre Nichols, what should policing look like?
Community activists and lawmakers are demanding change after Memphis Police officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols. But what can be done? Is oversight enough? And what does the future look like — for police and for the community?
After Naomi Judd’s death, a Tennessee lawmaker has filed a bill to make it harder to release records into death investigations
A Tennessee lawmaker wants to close public records in certain death investigations. The bill comes after the family of Naomi Judd pushed to conceal the release of information following her death.
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.
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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