Data Points: Crime Rates and Political Milestones
For reasons known only to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and the University of Memphis Public...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Jun 7, 2022 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
For reasons known only to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and the University of Memphis Public...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Mar 21, 2022 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice, State Government | 0
We presume that the White politicians from City of Memphis who encouraged the White, right wing...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Mar 10, 2022 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
San Jose, California, was recently the first city in the U.S. to require gun owners to have...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Feb 9, 2022 | Criminal Justice | 0
By John Branston What Is It About Memphis and Murder? If Memphis is not Number One in murders per...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Nov 29, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
Despite City of Memphis spending $10 million in a decade for more than 2,000 ubiquitous...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Nov 8, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice, Data Points, Economic Development, Leadership, Media, Talent | 0
Table Above: Major Violent Crime It’s hard not to pity the people at Memphis Branding AKA...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Oct 18, 2021 | Civil Rights, Criminal Justice | 0
“Nobody was hurt until the police officers got there.” Part I: The Introduction to a...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Oct 15, 2021 | Civil Rights, Criminal Justice | 0
Smart City Memphis remembers the death of teenager Elton Hayes 50 years ago, the trial, and the...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Aug 5, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
Thumbnail: Memphis’ major violent crime rate has climbed in five of the last six years, creating the single biggest frustration for the Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, who was elected on the pledge to lower the crime rate.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Apr 23, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
Over the past three decades, U.S. cities have allocated larger and larger shares of their budgets...
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Apr 21, 2021 | City of Memphis Government, Criminal Justice | 0
Thumbnail: The appointment of Cerelyn Davis as the new police chief in Memphis is historic in selecting an African Woman, the first outsider in 50 years. More to the point, it could be historic in bringing new ideas and new voices into law enforcement strategies in Memphis.
Read Moreby Smart City Memphis | Sep 23, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Politics and Government | 0
Thumbnails: The late Memphian, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Abe Fortas, is used by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his pretzel logic about the appointment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor. It’s worth remembering the entire and powerful story of this distinguished Memphian’s life and how raw politics blocked his appointment as chief justice in one of the U.S. Senate’s darkest moments.
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