[6] In 2020, JPD opened a Real-Time Crime Center, where officers could access 600 public and private surveillance cameras in the city.

[8] In response, the state legislature in 2023 expanded the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Capitol Police into an 8.7-square-mile (23 km2) area in Jackson called the Capitol Complex Improvement Zone, an area with a larger white population than the rest of the city.

[8] Jackson's mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba described the increased policing in this area as "apartheid".

[8] On May 15, 1970, during a period of student unrest over the Vietnam War and other issues, officers with the Jackson Police and the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol opened fire with more than 150 rounds of "shotgun, carbine, rifle, and submachine gun fire", including armor-piercing bullets, on a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, killing Phillip Gibbs, a prelaw major, and James Green, a local high school student, and injuring 12 others.

[9] A federal commission found the response "unreasonable, unjustified" and "clearly unwarranted", and that the Jackson officers then engaged in a "pattern of deceit", with each officer falsely claiming he had not fired a shot, until shells collected by the highway patrol were surrendered under federal grand jury order, and FBI laboratory tests confirmed that they had been fired by city police shotguns.