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camera rushing tyre nichols to the hospital where three days later he dies. boris sanchez, cnn, memphis. it s just awful to watch. let s bring in cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. thanks for getting up early for us. i want you to listen to what the memphis police chief said on friday. this is one of three teams whose primary responsibility is to reduce gun violence, to be visible in communities, we had record numbers in 2021, 346 homicides, so this unit was put together and they had great success. but they ve disbanded it now, right? is that enough to address the issues with the police department, disbanding that so-called s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n., you know, saturation unit? yeah, christine, good morning to you. i think it s a significant first step. i think that any unit of police
ranks and the rubber that reaches the roads which is the police officers. if you don t have a plausible oversight, the police officers will act autonomously. when you look at a situation of this magnitude, it truly equates to a breakdown in supervision, and we need to have more oversight over police officers who are embarking within the city of memphis. what about the scorpion unit that we ve learned is deployed to high crime areas, and they re sort of they re being called a saturation unit. they are apparently looking for crime even before it happens. do all big city police departments have a unit that s equivalent to this? well, when we spotlight the scorpion unit in particular, when you look at the quantitative statistics, they were successful in catching crime, but this doesn t give them the right to violate people s civil rights.