Municipal elections are just around the corner and the number of elected police chiefs in Mississippi dropped by nearly 20 percent in recent months.
In November, the Houston Board of Aldermen voted to make its top cop position appointed. Earlier this month, the aldermen in Forest, located in Scott County, did the same thing.
There are 275 police chiefs across the state, according to the Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police. Of that total, there are now just nine (3.2 percent) who are elected. The remaining elected police chief positions are in Aberdeen, Amory, Baldwyn, Brookhaven, Corinth, Iuka, Nettleton, New Albany and Okolona.
Neglected dogs rescued from Nettleton home
Police helped rescue more than a dozen dogs from a home in Nettleton.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 7:35 PM
Updated: Dec 18, 2020 7:45 PM
Posted By: Alexis Jones, Zac Carlisle
NETTLETON, Miss. (WTVA) - The Nettleton Police Department is looking for a man whom they say is responsible for neglecting more than a dozen dogs.
Police officers found 15 cold and starving dogs at a trailer home on Martin Luther King Avenue in Nettleton.
Police Chief Gary Monaghan said six of the 15 dogs and puppies were dead when police officers arrived.
Officers found the dogs chained to gates, surrounded by garbage and left in the cold.