Jackson Jambalaya

Police are civilians also. They are not military.

They should craft an exception, too, for if/when an officer is injured. Surely we shouldn't be handing out the names of officers who've been shot by "civilians" and are still in the hospital.

Also, I think it's foolish and irresponsible to release these videos of shootings without any context or commentary. Videos of "civilians" being shot are only going to inflame the community if they're not given proper context.

"Potential criminal history"

Would someone please explain this to me ?

This is a continuation of the war on law enforcement. Wish I could remember that fellow's name who accused the police officer of "speaking stupidly". Got a lot of news coverage.

Lumumba administration seems determined to drive nails in Jackson's coffin.

It seems to me this policy is aimed at assisting individual citizens in determining, on their own, whether a police shooting is justified before an investigation can be conducted, i.e., rushing to judgment of the involved officer. Surely, this will lead to increased pressure to prosecute officers, regardless of evidence that may not be available for release to the public within the first 72 hours. I don't see how an officer could receive a fair trial after video, which may not even be admissible in court, has already been digested by the potential jury.

Personally, I believe that video that MY security cameras record belongs to me, and I ought to get to decide if it gets released publicly, especially if it reveals the location or other details of my home and/or business.

@2:08 PM "Potential criminal history" means that someone is fixin' to get ready to commit a crime.

Would this make you want to become a Jackson Police Officer?

The City of Jackson has no authority to confiscate private video and post wherever necessary to fit their agenda. The City of Jackson should establish a protection budget for officers placed in immediate danger by their own administration. I would hate to work for any law enforcement agency with this type of policy.

This is why the Jackson Police Department is short 100 officers. Which wasn’t news when that information was released btw. They have been short for years. A problem they will continue to have until the city gets behind and elects a qualified leader.

The only police left in the department are the ones in administrative job.
R.I.P. Jackson

All this policy does is ensure that any officer involved in a shooting (whether justified or not) will be doxed, and her/his family endlessly harassed before all of the facts are known. This places officers in unnecessary danger and will most certainly cloud their judgment on when/how to defend themselves and the public. And when the true facts are revealed, who will restore the officer's reputation...will the Mayor come out and stand behind the decision his officer made when justified?? My guess will be no.

What a recruitment idea! "Come live in a disaster area, be underpaid, and if you have to shoot a thug, you and your family will all be viral stars!" The JPD ought to flooded with apps from FBI and Secret Service agents looking for a real career by Monday morning!

I’ve been a law enforcement officer a decade and a half. If I still worked for JPD despite the atrocious pay, terrible leadership, lack of backing by the city, and dangerous levels of low staffing, this shooting policy would be the straw that broke the camels back. If I am forced into a situation where I have to use deadly force to protect life you are condemning me to the court of public opinion, refusing to allow the Chief or command staff to back me, jepordizing my safety and my families safety by releasing my name and photos to the media and allowing the media to spin this whatever direction they please without any sort of due process or trial. The media loves nothing more than to paint Police as bloodthirsty corrupt thugs. I fully understand the weight of taking a human life, and it’s a terrible thing no one should have to experience. But adding this on top of that weight is reprehensible. Good luck filling the staffing shortage...

This mayor continues to live on cloud 9 in understanding how to benefit people. I live in NE Jackson and I can tell you this isn't what I voted for. He will simply run for uncle bennie's seat soon. I'm sick of him already.

I've met this mayor many times... let me assure you that he is a pretty boy that in all seriousness gets manicures and has never been one to get his hands dirty. He reminds me of Obama when he use to address our military... like Obama could never do anything the military guys do little chokwe can never do what jpd does daily. Big talker!!! He's really a weak individual and is a radical minded fool.

Al Sharpton and his ilk love these policies; they provide opportunities to perpetuate false racial narratives (e.g. "hands up, don't shoot"), and keep the money flowing to his National Action Network. Hey Al, why don't learn how to spell respect, pay your taxes, and stay out of issues that don't concern you.

Who pays for defense counsel when a JPD officer gets charged either in a criminal case or a civil one?

The draft policy is an insult to all who work in law enforcement. Wanna bet officers start leaving JPD in droves and then watch the City as they try to recruit new officers. What a disaster. Baby Chock is going to be your next Representative when Bennie finally retires. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. RIP Jackson.

It is a bit premature to release a document that hasn't been even legally reviewed.

I agree that neither an officer or the alleged perp should be judged in the " court of public opinion", I do not want law enforcement ( many of whom do not get the training they deserve, are not properly vetted, or subject to tests of psychological fitness to serve) to have a broad license to kill.


I think both those who make knee jerk assumptions about law enforcement shootings , are outrageously naïve. Law enforcement officers are not always heroes or always villains.


I have met law enforcement officers who are calm, cool,those who are collected and those itching to exert power over others, . I've met those who are so dim witted that I wonder how in the hell they function in any job and those who are so brilliant, I wonder why they haven't sought a better job.

And, I think those of you who are not interested in preventing the shootings of children playing with toy guns, deaths because the officer went to the wrong address, or the fait accompli of one officer exacting the death penalty for verbal insults or misdemeanors are lunatics. Nor has it occurred to you yahoos, that options exist to arrest later for non-felonies without shooting someone in the back.


And, I know damn well if these sorts of shootings were being done by law enforcement to whites with the same racial percentage as the crime numbers, you would hold a totally different view because you or your kids would be more at risk. And, actually, with the drug epidemic the risk is growing as more whites are dying after arrest as officers can't seem to recognize when medical attention is needed...again, poor training and/or those with poor judgement making life and death decisions.

Grow up. Life is complex and your knee jerk either /or reactions and your need for simple solutions to complex problems and your unwillingness to objectivity learn about issues before opening your mouth is dysfunctional.

"All this policy does is ensure that any officer involved in a shooting will be doxed."

Help me out here. Is that a verb?

It's no longer a question of if the state will have to take over Jackson, it's now simply when. What an absolutely pathetic situation.

@9:50

As a card carrying "yahoo" I would like to inform you that if you really want (which I sincerely doubt) a better grade of police officer in the JPD your mayor and his "committee" are totally destroying the possibility of that happening. I do not see how you can't understand that.

Without a six figure salary I wouldn't be working for a PD with this policy. Frankly we're at the point where way more is being asked of officers than what they are actually being trained for and what the public's expectation is.
At least so far no one has come into the JPD and unmercifully beat a female dispatcher to a bloody pulp as happened in Clarksdale this past week!!

September 9, 2018 at 9:57 AM asked:

"'All this policy does is ensure that any officer involved in a shooting will be doxed.'

Help me out here. Is that a verb?"

I am not the original poster of that, but "Doxed"/"Doxxed" comes from "docs'ed" which comes from "drop docs" (documents) on/about a person to ID them. Generally, though, "doxing" as the term arose and is used means to dig up identifying info on someone you are feuding with or otherwise at odds with and then exposing their ID and personal info (address, family, pictures, etc.) to cause them some level or harm and discomfort. It is also illegal in some areas/circumstances.

Using the term in this context isn't really accurate/correct usage, but the results for the officer will be the same, so semantics be damned.

@9:57, here you go...

dox - (verb, informal) to search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.

"hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures"

Come now, why in the world would you think Big Bucks Bennie would even remotely consider retiring! Now that's funny! His race baiting keeps padding his pockets and he could not care less about his constituents unless they advance his cause. His agenda is to keep his constituents "staying strong in the struggle'" While they struggle, he prospers!

Ultimately the "peoples police force" will have no need for deadly force against the community it was hired to serve. Guns will not be needed to intimidate and oppress the people. So don't worry about this policy. It will become unnecessary.

@ 9:36,
Bennie represents only a portion of Jackson and flora and delta. NE Jackson is represented by a Republican as is Madison and the Rankin area. It's the same district. It's Gerrymandered to say it nicely. Doesn't wickers daughter and son in law live in NE Jackson? Bennie has all the poor areas... he's a plantation mentality politician that is of the dying breed thankfully. Not saying that bc he's a Democrat either. Many republicans need to go as well.

10:21 If you think the plantation mentality politician is a dying breed you've got your head buried in the sand. Obviously you don't see the new plantations springing up every day. Right and left.

I see minority voters leaving the plantation Democrat party daily in larger numbers. Truth be told they don't view Trump as a Republican or a Democrat... so just because the NAACP poll and named WSJ polling shows Trump at 31-33% of black vote approval doesn't mean they will vote for a Republican other than Trump. So it's possible they vote Democrat locally. Trump won huge amounts of Democrat strongholds and many are voters that never ever dreamed of voting for a Republican. Like him or not his draw to various demographics is unlike anyone else.

All the police in jackson should just pack up and leave it with these liberal progressive do good nuts. One of two things would happen. They would beg for police protection and agree to a realistic sensible police policy, or they would refuse and the criminal element would clean out the gene pool for the next group of folks.

No need to worry about Christians, patriots or rednecks. The ones that are left in the city will be okay