Swift action by law enforcement in Memphis after the beating death of Tyre Nichols has been called a “blueprint” for handling such tragedies. But policing experts say other important lessons and themes have emerged, including for the NYPD.
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But the discourse since the tragedy has identified other takeaways – for the public, policymakers and police departments looking to avoid such police violence in the first place. Memphis’s Scorpion unit, like so many special police units, focused on high-crime neighborhoods. The city has been ranked one of the most violent in the nation in recent years, and experienced ain 2021, with 346 killings. It was in that climate that Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis announced a new, tougher approach to crime.
“The genesis of these kinds of police units, like Scorpion, like [the defunct Street Crime Unit] in New York, like Ramparts [in Los Angeles] – these have been in Miami, L.A., and they always go wrong,” said Donaldson, who spent nearly two years during the 1990s embedded with police units in Brooklyn. “They're born out of public fear of street crime, of escalating street crime, and the tacit message to the department is: stop it any way you can.
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