Why Nashville’s Community Oversight Board Was Overturned by the State
Season 4 Episode 13 | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Why Nashville’s Community Oversight Board Was Overturned by the State.
Nashville PBS’ Jerome Moore hosts a bipartisan conversation with Sen. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon) and Rep. Caleb Hemmer (D-Nashville). Together, they explore how state leaders work with communities, navigate shared challenges, and help shape a stronger Tennessee for everyone.
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Why Nashville’s Community Oversight Board Was Overturned by the State
Season 4 Episode 13 | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Nashville PBS’ Jerome Moore hosts a bipartisan conversation with Sen. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon) and Rep. Caleb Hemmer (D-Nashville). Together, they explore how state leaders work with communities, navigate shared challenges, and help shape a stronger Tennessee for everyone.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- My question is kind of in that same arena of Nashville voters, Davidson County voters overwhelmingly voted to create a Community Oversight Board.
I'd like to think that the Davidson County delegation supported what Davidson County voters had voted for.
But can you speak to why it was taken away from us in spite of what we had voted for?
- [Host] Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
- All right, so absolutely.
And there were several Community Oversight Boards throughout the state, and instead of having each one individually, we combined all of 'em.
And if I had to pick a model, it modeled after the Knoxville Oversight Board.
So we got it consistent across the state.
So Shelby County, Knox County, all of 'em didn't have individuals.
They all did a lot more the same.
Part of the reason is this: some of them did not have as professional training or people in there.
And there were some people that were on the oversight boards that were literally going in and destroying crime scenes.
And that's not right because when they would be closed off, they thought that they had the right to go past the police lines to do things, and they were contaminating crime scenes, and we can't have that.
So we thought we needed to have one standard across the state, and that's what we did.
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