Memphis Mayor's Call for More Police Officers

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Three people, two of them teens are recovering after being brutally attacked by a mob of teenagers in a busy shopping center at Poplar and Highland. The mayor has demanded just about every opportunity gets that Memphis needs more police officers even though there is no proven correlation between the number of officers on the streets and crime rates. I think all of us who have done our job for a while can remember how horrible we were at it in the first year, second year, third year, and how much we've grown in the decade since.

Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wendi C. Thomas of the nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, wasn’t surprised: “I know this city.”

This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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