Entries by Sherard Edington

#9. Community Police Academy – Special Victims

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, When we think of policing, we like to think of the more “exciting” […]

#8. Community Police Academy – Use of Force

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, Use of Force was the topic for this week’s Community Police Academy. Instead […]

Special Report: Ride Along

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, On Friday evening, I participated in a Ride Along with a patrol officer […]

#7. Community Police Academy – OPA, EDU, VCD

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, On Tuesday night’s Community Police Academy, we heard from three speakers. The first […]

#6. Community Police Academy – Traffic and DUI

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, My middle school held a weekly assembly where the student body would hear […]

#5. Community Police Academy – Stats and Cams

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, For Session 5 of Community Police Academy, we had two speakers. The first […]

#4. Community Police Academy – Wellness and Chaplains

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, On Tuesday, I attended the fourth session of the Community Police Academy at […]

#3. Community Police Academy – Gangs, TITANS, and NIBIN

For 12 weeks, Sherard Edington is taking part in the Community Police Academy offered by the Nashville Police Department. Through lectures and demonstrations, he is learning about the inner workings of law enforcement in Davidson County. These are his reports. Dear Friends, On Tuesday, my third class in the Community Police Academy was all about […]

#2. Community Police Academy – Drugs

Dear Friends, As I wrote last week, I have enrolled in the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Community Police Academy. Each Tuesday, for 12 weeks, I will attend lectures and demonstrations about the inner workings of Nashville’s law enforcement. In the first session, we heard from the Homicide Division. That was followed by a tour of […]

#1. Community Police Academy – Homicide

Dear Friends, This week, I enrolled in the Community Police Academy—a long-running project of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department that allows citizens to learn about the workings of the MNPD. Each Tuesday, for 12 weeks, I will go to the Madison Precinct and join about 50 other people to hear presentations on various aspects of […]