80% black supporters of this new bill of these new laws, they point to the crime rate in jackson, which has seen homicide rate per year that has doubled over the past 10 years, peaking in 2021 the murder rate, 12 times the national average, making jackson one of the deadliest cities in the us let s dig a little deeper now into these new laws. here s what you should know that they will allow the state of mississippi to expand reach of state controlled law enforcement to the entire city of jackson. this is a force that has primarily protected the capital and the surrounding area and has not been engaged in city law enforcement. this force does not answer to local officials, but rather state appointed leadership. there s also major changes coming to the judicial system, which will establish a new court within the boundaries of the new capital complex improvement district. the judge there will be appointed by the republican state chief justice and the prosecuting attorneys
the city. this is a force that does not answer to local officials but rather state-appointed leadership. the other side of this is the judicial system, major changes coming to that, including new court a new court with a judge appointed by the republican state chief justice and also prosecuting attorneys appointed, again, by the republican state attorney general. one of the supporters of these new laws is the man who signed them into law, that s the governor tate reeves. here is what he had to say. jackson has so much potential. i ve lived in jackson for almost a third of my life and i want what s best for jackson, but for us to continue to see young kids getting killed in the streets, for us to continue to see property crimes that are happening here that are causing businesses to leave, we ve got to make sure that we have law
pointing to the crime rate specifically, homicides per year that have doubled. over the past decade peeking back in 2021 more than 12 times the national average. so they re saying that jackson here because of that is one of the deadliest cities in the us and the police force needs some help. so let s dig a little deeper into these laws and what they do because there are important here so the laws will allow the state of mississippi. to expand reach of state control law enforcement to the entire city of jackson. now this is a force that has primarily stuck to protecting the capital and the surrounding area. this is not a force that has been engaged with city law enforcement. up until now. this is a force that does not answer to local officials but to state appointed leadership. here s the other part of these laws, the judicial system major changes coming to that, including establishing a new court within the boundaries of a new capital complex improvement district. the judge there will
bill of these new laws, they point to the crime rate in jackson, which has seen homicide rate per year that has doubled over the past 10 years, peaking in 2021 the murder rate, 12 times the national average, making jackson one of the deadliest cities in the us let s dig a little deeper now into these new laws. here s what you should know that they will allow the state of mississippi to expand reach of state controlled law enforcement to the entire city of jackson. this is a force that has primarily protected the capital and the surrounding area and has not been engaged in city law enforcement. this force does not answer to local officials, but rather state appointed leadership. there s also major changes coming to the judicial system, which will establish a new court within the boundaries of the new capital complex improvement district. the judge there will be appointed by the republican state chief justice and the prosecuting attorneys will be appointed by the