he Tennessee legislature passed a bill that would weaken police oversight in the state and dissolve community-led oversight boards in Memphis and Nashville.
give mayors unilateral power to handpick candidates who sit on the boards, prevent boards from having investigatory authority, prevent boards from requiring representation from impacted communities, and prevent boards from having their own legal advisor separate from the city’s legal department. Additionally, the legislation would prevent boards from reviewing investigations concerning any incident that occurred prior to July 1, 2023, including the murder of Nichols.
In Tennessee, from 2013 to 2021, there were 240 killings by police and 2,646 complaints of police misconduct,o the Police Scorecard, the first nationwide public evaluation of policing in the United States. A Black person was 1.6 times more likely to be killed by police than a white person.
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