Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday signed House bill 1020, a controversial piece of legislation that will create a court system of unelected judges and prosecutors in the Capitol Complex Improvement District (CCID), a smaller portion of Jackson, Miss.
Tate Reeves, governor of Mississippi, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, US, on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. The Conservative Political Action Conference launched in 1974 brings together conservative organizations, elected leaders, and activists.
But advocates across the state and country say this form of law and order will overwhelmingly increase state control of Jackson’s policing and judicial system, ultimately taking the power away from the residents of Jackson, a city with one of the highest populations of Black residents in the U.S. The bill was authored and introduced by Republican state Rep. Trey Lamar of Senatobia in February. In an earlier interview with Yahoo News, Lamar said the legislation will address the crime and judicial backlog in the capital.
This legislation takes the existing Capitol Police, which previously served primarily as security officers for state buildings, and turned them into a true law enforcement agency that can help fight back against crime in the city within a designated area - the Capitol Complex…But Rep. Robert Johnson, the Mississippi House minority leader, says the legislation allows a state police force to take control of Mississippi’s Blackest city.
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