The Justice Department on Wednesday said a 17-month civil rights investigation found that the Memphis Police Department engages in the systemic use of excessive force and discriminates against ...

The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and follows policies that discriminate against black people, the US justice department has said. This includes unnecessarily escalating ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving forward to correct constitutional violations it reports are commonplace in the Memphis Police Department (MPD). Two weeks after its ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Former Memphis Police Department Police Chief Tony Armstrong was one of several law experts who spoke on a panel about the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Pattern or Practice ...

(WMC/Gray News) - The U.S. Department of Justice released a report Wednesday following a 17-month investigation into the practices of the Memphis Police Department in Tennessee. According to the ...

In Memphis, people like the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher had asked the Justice Department for years to investigate the city’s police officers. But now, he worries that there will be no follow-through.

Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced officers ... "This will end my fifty-one-year career in the criminal justice system, beginning as a counselor, then an attorney and ...

the Justice Department under the Biden administration sought to bring them back, opening a dozen civil rights investigations into police departments. Some cities, like Memphis and Phoenix ...

The lawsuit also cites heavily from the U.S. Department of Justice's findings report, a byproduct of its investigation into the Memphis Police Department. 'Room for opportunity.' Memphis mayor ...

The Justice Department report was the ... after an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor is waiting court approval. In Memphis, Tennessee, the mayor last month ...

Homicides and murders both dropped in 2024, data from the Memphis Police Department said. And, days into the new year, a ...