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Suit Challenges How Nashville PD Responds to Complaints Against Officers

Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Oct 4, 2016
The Nashville Scene looks at a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was falsely arrested for driving under the influence after a traffic accident in Nashville. David Shearon of Christiana was later cleared of the charges by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The Scene reports that Shearon’s suit uses his incident to examine the Metro Nashville Police Department as a whole and how it responds to citizen complaints. It says that from 2011 to 2015 citizens initiated 249 complaints against MNPD officers for “obstruction of rights,” but that 98 percent of those complaints “resulted in no finding or repercussions against the officer.”