Project Pat, a co-founder of Three 6 Mafia, is mourning the loss of his son, Patrick Houston Jr., who was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 10. According to an online obituary, he was 22, People reported.
A federal judge ruled to replace a private attorney who monitors the Memphis Police Department with two lawyers employed by the city.
President Trump is back in the Oval Office – and the room looks very similar to how it appeared in his first term. Chief Davis has served as the interim head of MPD for a little more than a year.
The Memphis City Council Tuesday reappointed Cerelyn "C.J." Davis as police chief. She spent the previous year as MPD's interim chief.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis City Council members voted to approve Cerelyn 'C.J.' Davis as the Memphis Police Department chief one year after being tagged as the interim. Davis was confirmed unanimously by the council after previously being moved to an interim tag when Mayor Paul Young assumed office in January 2024.
Crime in Memphis dropped in almost every major category between 2023 and 2024, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation data.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is dead following a shooting in northeast Memphis, according to the Memphis Police Department. Officers said they responded to a shooting call at the 3900 block of Jackson Ave. around 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.
Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced ... McGriff, former deputy commissioner and chief of staff of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security; and Dr. Theron ...
Donald Trump wants to declassify remaining documents related to the assassination of John F Kennedy, RFK and MLK.
The DOJ has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reforms negotiated by the Biden administration like in Memphis.
In 2017, the public learned that MPD was surveilling a new generation of activists after The Commercial Appeal first reported evidence of a “blacklist” that included Blanchard and other private citizens who had no prior interactions with the criminal justice system. Blanchard and three others sued the city, and the ACLU intervened as a plaintiff.
A memo sent by President Donald Trump's administration is asking for all civil rights investigations to be put on hold.