Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, commonly known in the area as Metro Police, is the primary provider of law enforcement services for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. The MNPD covers a total area of 526.1 square miles (1,363 km2) that encompasses everything from high density urban locations to rural areas.
For "METRO Police Department", the law enforcement agency of the major transit authority of Greater Houston, see Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
MNPD
1963
1,757 (2020)
$289 million (2021)[1]
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
525.94 sq mi (1,362.2 km2)
665,498 (2018)
1315
- John Drake, Chief of Police
- West (1)
- East (2)
- South (3)
- Central (4)
- Hermitage (5)
- North (6)
- Madison (7)
- Midtown Hills (8)
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13
8
18
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Operation Safer Streets[edit]
Since 2005, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been involved in Operation Safer Streets. Due to the growing gang problem on the streets of Nashville with gangs such as Kurdish Pride, Brown Pride, MS-13, Bloods, and Crips, the department has set up surveillance in the South Nashville neighborhoods to put pressure on the gang members. The team had originally only 14 officers who worked Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. These 14 officers stepped up Patrol in areas that have had a high concentration of gang activity, which include Madison and Antioch areas. In March 2008, the department added 23 more officers to the anti-gang team. Then-Chief of Police Ronal W. Serpas stated that this step up in patrol was intended to send a message that he would not tolerate gang activity in Nashville.
In August 2009 Nashville appeared on Season Five Episode 11 (Hunt and Kill) of the TV Show Gangland featuring the street gang, "Brown Pride". This show highlights several local gang members, both arrested and out on the street, who talk about their lives in the gangs.[7]
Activists disputes that Operation Safer Streets is effective and alleges that the program has disproportionately affected black and brown neighborhoods.[8]