There are still many questions surrounding what exactly went so wrong inside of the Memphis Police Department leading up to the death of Tyre Nichols. One piece of the puzzle may have been revealed this week, however, as detailed in a recent report from the Associated Press. Shortly after the release of the horrific video of the beating Nichols received, I asked how officers with so little experience wound up on the elite violent crime task force they were assigned to. (The officers all had only two to five years of experience on the force.) As it turns out, the Memphis PD had been woefully understaffed for several years and had lowered its required qualifications to the point where almost anyone who wasn’t currently in jail could be hired.Read More
Revealed: Memphis police were hiring “pretty much anybody”
