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Huggins is an aggressive man, no doubt about it, but as I said in a previous post, he's a cop and he's got a cop mentality.  There ain't nothing wrong with that most of the time, and so long as you understand that, you'll understand Huggins.  He's also a star on the rise within the p

According to the Salemtown e-mail list, the head of Youth Services expressed some initial uncertainty about whether the case of a teenager shot last week had been assigned to her division or to the precinct.  The day before yesterday Captain Marlene Pardue wrote an association member who contacted her about the case that she could not locate it by the address.

According to the parents of the teenager wounded by suspected gang members late Friday night, Metro detectives have still not followed up with them to gather information on the incident.

The Metro Police Central Precinct Community Coordinator, David Rueff, sent the following e-mail message to the Salemtown Neighbors e-mail list earlier today in response to complaints that a Tennessean article written by Janell Ross and published on Monday was designed to stoke racial tensions in S

Metro Police Chief Ronal S

Well just when we thought this was over, The City Paper has released the Metro Police "matter of record" from the incident Monday night.  Here is what it says about Monday:

From the City Paper:

I've spent considerable sums getting folks who have a place to go and/or a job prospect waiting for them elsewhere on a bus to another city.  Working in conjunction with Helen Pace over at Traveler's Aid, together we've sent quite a few folks off to what we hope are better futures elsewhere.  

Metro Police Central Precinct has a new commander who got an earful of criticism at last night's Salemtown Neighbors meeting about recent police response to incidents and follow-up in Salemtown.  Community policing here seems to have slipped lately as cops seemed to sit back and do nothing on incidents of public brawling and gang activity, and we've gotten mixed messages on whom to

It should come as no surprise to anyone that robberies are up; this kind of crime almost always increases when the economy tanks - people get desperate and look for a way to add some dollars to their pocket - any way.