Scorpion Unit Emerged as Memphis Pursued Get-Tough Strategy City leaders had praised the new group as a key strategy for fighting crime. Now they are trying to assess whether it was flawed from the start.
Tyre Nichols’ Death Proves Yet Again That “Elite” Police Units Are a Disaster They shatter the trust of the community, and the results can be deadly.
Memphis Police Disbands Unit Whose Officers Were Charged in Tyre Nichols’s Death Mr. Nichols’s family and activists had demanded the scuttling of the group, the Scorpion unit, which patrolled high-crime areas of the city.
Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame He is now a marquee victim of a predacious system that America has lost its willingness to confront.