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INTRODUCTION – One of many factors to community safety is the level of citizen involvement. Within Memphis and Shelby County, many citizens...

INTRODUCTION – Data-driven policing has been a priority for Memphis Police Department (MPD) for more than 10 years. During the initial...

K2 Intelligence Report: Memphis Gang Strategy Proposal INTRODUCTION – Gang violence in Memphis has become an epidemic. It is a public health...

INTRODUCTION – In Sept. 2013, as the result of Multi-Agency Gang Unit (MGU) investigations into reports of criminal gang activity in the...

Crime drops in 2019; violent crime down for second year in a row

The MSCC’s main function is to convene for planning and reporting, and to provide accountability partner nudging, sometimes insistently, when...

District Attorney Amy Weirich and Crime Commission President Bill Gibbons released a column in the Daily Memphian discussing the challenge of gang...

IP SEES SAFE COMMUNITY AS KEY TO QUALITY OF LIFE AND GROWTH International Paper is a leading global producer of renewable fiber-based packaging...

One of the goals of the Safe Community plan is to strengthen community engagement in crime prevention and reduction efforts. That goal can be...

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Governor Bill Lee, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, and other leaders joined over 300 participants in a forum on June...

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The GUN CRIME.MAX TIME. FED UP. ad campaign, an Operation: Safe Community initiative, was recognized by the 39th Annual Telly Awards honoring...

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Based on preliminary figures from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), major violent crime in Memphis and Shelby County continued to drop...