7 candidates under consideration for MPD director
7 candidates under consideration for MPD Director By Arianna Poindexter | March 11, 2021 at 5:50 PM CST - Updated March 11 at 5:50 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The search for the next Memphis Police Director is heating up as the City of Memphis released the names of seven finalists in a nationwide search.
The search is being conducted by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), which was the same group that led the search in 2016.
Finalists include three internal candidates with the Memphis Police Department and include Deputy Chief Sharonda Hampton, Deputy Chief Samuel Hines and Deputy Chief Michael Shearin.
Disbelief continues over ban on police telling parents about kids using weed.
Parents remain baffled and angry at new laws in New Jersey that ban cops from telling them if their kids are caught smoking weed or drinking. Police who do could face serious criminal charges.
The Legislature passed and Gov. Phil Murphy signed decriminalization laws under the guise of social justice but also because without it, they would have lost the support of the Legislative Black Caucus for legislation that set up a legal weed market.
Police unions have told their members to just stay away from anyone they see smoking weed. The New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association issued an urgent memo calling the new laws treacherous. Many parents say the laws interfere with their parental rights. Some experts suggest it could lead to more teen addiction.
House hears bill to require and pay for police body cameras
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo a Los Angeles Police officer wears an on-body camera during a demonstration in Los Angeles. An agreement with Boston s largest police union to have 100 officers wear body cameras was praised as a step toward greater accountability. But with the Sept. 1, 2016, rollout date for the pilot program approaching, not a single officer had volunteered to wear one. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Damian Dovarganes
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House hears bill to require and pay for police body cameras By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH - Today Blindfolded with a pink bandana, Briella Houghton shuffled through a maze of horizonatal logs and plastic objects, one hand clutching the lead of a.