TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Aug 8, 2023

A new report compiled by the Nashville Community Oversight Board shows Nashville police are more likely to use excessive force when interacting with Black and Hispanic people. Using data from 2018-2022, the 43-page document found that Black people are three times more likely to have a gun drawn on them by police than white people. In school settings, 96% of students who had force used against them by a school resource officer were Black.