Debate on Police in Jackson, Miss., Adds Tension to City Divided by Water Crisis - The Wall Street Journal

JACKSON, Miss.—State and section officials successful Mississippi’s superior are progressively astatine likelihood implicit however to code rampant convulsive crime, causing tensions to escalate successful a authorities already warring implicit who was liable for leaving astir of the metropolis without cleanable drinking water.

Mississippi officials are readying to much than treble the size of the constabulary unit that protects the Capitol and authorities bureau buildings to 170 officers by the extremity of adjacent year. They gave the constabulary unit powerfulness to patrol a larger country of Jackson, which has 1 of the highest per capita homicide rates successful the U.S. The Jackson Police Department, which has astir 250 officers, volition proceed to oversee the remaining 92% of the city.