in peel the layers back on our lives, ordinances, in training and recruiting, we did convene a public safety task task force in 2020. to look at that. recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining public safety officers. we wanted to make, certainly took a deep, dive we took six months to really look into. and i was really again, how it rage because of the work that happened diana, the work that was being done, we have a new police chief, we have a new dna, and as i, said that really as an elective body, we ve been working toward making certain that the people center. that the officers are trained, that we are, community policing and we re putting funds behind those efforts. and to see this, see those
police according to our organization in public records request. articles from media, police statements. an information from state databases across the country. we found that nearly 1200 people were killed by police last year. more than three people every single day. and memphis police department, when you look over the past decade. memphis police department has had a rate of killing by the police slightly more than the national average. but there s police departments like albuquerque, like st. louis, that rates of police violence more than double that of memphis. so, there places across the country of hundreds of thousands of police departments that have the same or worse conduct them we re seeing in memphis. we can t just look at one case, were five officers in one unit. we need to look at the system as a whole. that continues year after year to kill more than 1100 people in this country. radley, to samuels point, when you talk about the system or the reforms some police departmen
and no one went to his aid. what do you think people, what is your suggestion to your constituents, what should they do with their outreach when they see this video? i don t legislative body, i think it s incumbent upon us an imperative that at this time we peel the layers back in pd. in peel the layers back on our lives, ordinances, in training and recruiting, we did convene a public safety task task force in 2020. to look at that. recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining public safety officers. we wanted to make, certainly took a deep, dive we took six months to really look into. and i was really again, how it rage because of the work that happened diana, the work that was being done, we have a new police chief, we have a new dna, and as i, said that really as an elective body, we ve been working toward
a new staff out with guys who are 24, 25, 26 years old. they haven t been in the department for more than five years. we need to question how malik those units really are. the other thing, that we know that we need to think, about is a police officers who train these guys, as soon as they, gabba feel training officers tend to be sort of the cops, koch they tend to be guys, not particular desired position, and but in particularly crap departments, we ve seen this in the l. a. sheriff s department for example. people are reputed to those positions, those training positions, they tend to be a lot of disciplinary and problems of their. owen because there s this effort to indoctrinate the recruits early on. sort of the rare fame oriented koch. you take that, they get this kind of training and immediately put them in one of
a ban on chokeholds, de-escalation training, they were trying to implement this stuff that s supposed to stave off behavior like. this is what s the lesson were supposed to take from that? well, they were doing some reforms, they were also creating an elite police unit. that was given the name, the scorpion. we have a problem in police culture more generally but i think sam nailed it, when he said that these units or a concentration of the worst aspects of policing. i m not gonna say that beyond these units you don t see it. but you do see, much higher incidence of them, ascension the nypd unit, that was the unit that killed abner we had a huge trial in baltimore with a gun crimes unit, surprisingly when you created a team of police officers and you tell them that their early, you tell them that their sort of pulaski of line of defense against crime, you