‘Law And Order Will Win’: Governor Announces Jackson Crime Operation, Mayor On Board
Jackson will see a “surge in state, local and federal law-enforcement resources” through “Operation Unified,” Gov. Reeves announced.
Jackson will see a “surge in state, local and federal law-enforcement resources” through “Operation Unified,” Gov. Reeves announced.
The NAACP is suing to stop two new laws designed to give the State of Mississippi more control over the City of Jackson and alleging they amount to race-based discrimination in a 52-page lawsuit the organization filed in federal court Saturday.
Mississippi Senate Bill 2343 would give Capitol Police jurisdiction “relative to the enforcement of all laws of the State of Mississippi within the boundaries of the City of Jackson, Mississippi.”
Mississippi House Rep. Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, is sponsoring a bill to establish a court system with unelected judges and prosecutors to oversee Jackson’s Capitol district.
Experts weigh in on the Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s conclusion that state trooper Hayden Falvey did nothing wrong during his arrest of a McComb man, Eugene Lewis, on Aug. 5, 2022.
State senators from Jackson are asking the Mississippi Legislature for millions of dollars to help fund additional police and misdemeanor jail beds to keep those charged with low-level crimes who cannot afford bail locked up as a strategy to prevent violence as it rises in the capital city, they say. They are not asking for funds to support earlier interventions that a BOTEC Analysis study of Jackson crime recommended in 2016—which the Legislature authorized for $500,000 in taxpayer dollars. Kayode Crown reports.
Parts of Mississippi’s capital city is seeing a “saturation” of additional police presence that Gov. Tate Reeves promises will counter a spike in crime and violence that has worsened since the pandemic began. But violence experts warn that a swelling police presence may not be effective, and it actually harm communities.
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