From Atlanta to Memphis

It's easy to draw a parallel between Memphis' Scorpion unit and REDDOG in Atlanta or Gun Trace in Baltimore. But policing culture is the problem.

When I saw that Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis had been an Atlanta assistant chief of police in 2016, I immediately asked myself if I’d been in the same room with her before. The Atlanta Downtown Improvement District hosts a monthly interagency meeting of police executives at the Hilton Garden Inn, and I was working for ADID at the time. When she retired from APD…