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Tyre Nichols: Disastrous SCORPION Police Unit Details Revealed
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10:29Now PlayingMore details emerge on the Memphis police SCORPION unit after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols and released body cam footage outrage. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Scorpion Unit Emerged as Memphis Police Pursued GetTough Strategy
"MEMPHIS — Chief Cerelyn Davis of the Memphis Police had been on the job for only a few months in 2021 when she saw that homicide numbers were rising toward a record. Near her new home downtown, drivers were buzzing wildly through the streets, often late at night. She had a plan to confront the mayhem.
For reckless drivers, she told her team, officers were to focus less on writing tickets and more on an all-out strategy of seizing cars from the most dangerous drivers. Violent offenders needed to be targeted with new urgency. If the state could not take a case to court, she determined, her agency should ask federal prosecutors to take the case instead.
“We all have that understanding about being tough on tough people,” she said at a community event in November of that year.
Two days later, Chief Davis, the first African American woman to lead the department, launched her most ambitious strategy: a new police unit named Scorpion — or Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods — would deploy some 40 officers as a strike team in some of the most volatile corners of the city."
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