highlights the need for a strong civilian review board. the legislation that took away the ability to have subpoena power really was damaging but i am hoping that we can get allies on both sides of the aisle that recognize it s important for civilians and community members to have access to police records when you have incidents of violence. they cannot police themselves, we have to hold them accountable. mister chairman, let s talk about the budget. review boards are one piece of this. the police budget for memphis has increased by millions of dollars every year since at least 2016, the year you started to serve on the council, with the exception of 2022. it was a year when the homicide rate fell by nearly 13%. overall violent crown in memphis fell by 4%. look at this year. police services take up more than a third of the entire cities budget. in about three months,, for civil, your reaction to that, sir. what do you say to folks who say more money to police
steps of new york city hall, 10,000 off-duty cops banded together in protest fed up and angry with a city they claim doesn t back them up. david dink ins pisses off the police because he talks about civilian review boards, accountability for police brutality so we see prominently white police officers screaming over rash slurs at the black mayor. that kind of language racial slurs separate and apart from the destruction of property and whatnot that is why some possibly have an absence confidence in the police department. the reason the moral in the police department is so low is one reason and one reason alone, david dink ins. some ways it was easy to blame david dinkins for things they were not his fault along comes giuliani, there s a message for this often is. today the new york police are
keep praying for my city. i ve been on city council since 2016. we have a term limit. i m in my last term limit in 24-year terms. during my entire time on the council, there have been local efforts whether it s dealing with this issue or others that have been usurped by the states general assembly. i live in a state where we have a super majority monte local control has been undermined by the general assembly. looking at the actions of our law enforcement review board is just a long line of things that have been senator, if you can speak to that then, given the supermajority republicans have in both chambers, is there anything to keep this legislation from representative that targets civilian review boards from passing? i m hoping the situation with tyre nichols really
The Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings; racially fueled events like Al Sharpton and the Crown Height riots; Rodney King and the LA riots; O.J. Simpson and his.