memphis does not have money to pay out this huge settlement but it will. we have to think about restrukt hinge r. i think that where it comes from police department insurance policies. that he is the real accountability. chief, to effect change is this primarily a legislation issue for a culture issue that is a police culture issue how these difficult decisions in the moment are made? you ve commanded police before, which do you think is more impactful? jim, that s a great question and i would say it s actually both. i think that most police chiefs and certainly chief davis has been working on culture change and making sure that the memphis pd which overwhelmingly has great men and women dedicated each day and night for the citizens of memphis, but culture in any organization is very difficult to change and you have to continue to stay at it and sustain it, but also legislation. chief davis was able to fire those officers under her
military context you want to let them be aggressive but the minute a line is crossed, which was clearly crossed here, it takes leadership. rachel: james craig said that and said this was a culture issue, a leadership issue all the way up to the chief of police, but also he talked about their should have been a supervisor that these cops that were on the scene in this supposedly elite unit were not very experienced. pete: we ve will less police officers on the street and they ll be accountable to someone eventually with body cameras and others. will: bring in dan bongino, the host of unfiltered with dan bongino and a former nypd officer as well. dan, you ve seen the video and heard the conversation, what s your thoughts this morning? i intentionally didn t do any media on this even of my own accounts, social or my show and this network last night because i wanted to wait to comment until i watched the video multiple times, saw multiple angles and haven t done this job
recruitment issue as well. sometimes in these cases we hear advocates calling for more diversity. in this case we have a female black police wheef who, by the way, is being hailed for her transparency and quick response, but also we have five black officers. is this more about police culture rather than making sure we have a diverse police force? i think it is interesting because one of the things i ve often spoken about and i think sometimes falls on deaf ears, the culture issue of policing is far more overwhelming than the impact of the diversity and the lack thereof in some agencies. by that, i mean you can have an agency as diverse as memphis and still have this. what i would say is the culture of this unit if nothing else has to be called into question and obviously was not designed with this outcome in mind. somewhere along the way this
toxic culture issues. other departments would be well guided to review the performance of similar units to take steps to make sure that they don t have a unit with officers who are running amuck in the same way it did in memphis. i was asking ben crump about that, that the five officers fired were part of that unit, but there were other officers part of that unit that are still part of the memphis police department. he says, look, it s a culture issue. what do you do about that? the fact that this is a bigger issue than just these five officers who were on that unit. well, first of all, i agree with what andrew just said. there s no question that the scorpion unit had to go. but then to take and think that every specialized unit across the country needs to go is, in my opinion, not necessary at all. you have to have some flexibility in terms of your
in his endless quest to become the new face of the republican party ron desantis loves to zero in on whatever the fortune elon musk/joe rogan crowd decides is the culture issue of the day and exploit it to its last ugly compound. going after trans people desantis has been doing quietly for months. his crusade to deny transgender medical care to two of society s most vulnerable groups, children and the poor. the daily beast reports when a far right state legislator failed to pass an anti-trans bill, the governor resorted to back room bureaucracy to get the same result using different state agencies to cut off gender affirming care. they go on to write, the governor s attack is something of a pincer movement. his administration targeted the poor by eliminating state and medicaid care and it is currently preparing to bar doctors from providing related