Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner has seen first hand the impact of violent crime on his commission district which includes Hickory Hill. But Turner says it’s possible to back law enforcement and be opposed to a militarization of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and Memphis Police Department.

The pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church thinks the first part of Mayor Jim Strickland’s effort to reform the Memphis Police Department didn’t go far enough. Strickland has said it was a start followed Wednesday, Sept. 2, by his appointment of a 13-member advisory group to examine deeper reforms. Pastor J. Lawrence Turner, who was named to the advisory group, says he will stick with the effort.

The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast recaps some events from the past week and some of the recently certified election results are cause to go looking through some numbers from the historic 1991 city elections.

Nick Walker, who recently went from interim to permanent director of the city's division of parks and neighborhoods, talked about the change and the move to a parks master plan on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, the city's Democratic Congressman also talked about his recent primary win on the August ballot, the political benchmark it maintained and gave his thoughts on who might succeed him down the political road.

The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast features a 10-minute roundup of what the Thursday vote count means.

Phyllis Betts and Richard Janikowski are the experts who have set a new bar this month for growing the Memphis Police Department ranks to 2,800. The couple also has a link to the Blue Crush era of policing in the city. They talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about calls for more police amid calls locally for changing the fundamentals of policing and even the share of government funds devoted to policing.

The County Commission chairman says the differences between the two don't appear to extend to the rest of the commission. Mark Billingsley also said he hopes to move to lift the county hiring budget freeze once there is a reconciliation of the budget approved by the commission last month after rejecting Mayor Lee Harris's original proposal.

Memphis City Council member talks about her push to remove from the November ballot a residency referendum that would allow police and firefighters to live outside the county.

City council member Worth Morgan talks about his possible move to take police out of the city's civil service system and calls a move to cancel the November referendum allowing the city to hire police from outside Shelby County "the ultimate hypocrisy."