Crime Ridden Memphis

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I've been to Beale st a few times. Love the food, but its been a while. It seems the black community need to correct their ship. Don't see it happening
 
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LadyVolette said:
Me too, but I was a baby 😂.. moved to Nashville when school aged.. Nashville was actually a pretty good place to raise a family then.. not sure about now, unless you have a ton of money and live in an enclave somewhere
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I was born in Memphis but my parents moved here in the 1950s.
In the 1970s, I moved there to get away from Jackson & experience
different things in life. Memphis was bad but you just have to stay out
of some places while there.
 
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Went to Memphis for some work related event in the late 80s. Stayed at the Peabody, ate dinner at Rendezvous and listened to live music on Beale St. Even then Beale was a little uncomfortable. Sounds like it would be bad news now. Too bad because the music was good.
 
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U.S. District Judge, Mark Norris, recused himself from the Tyre Nichols case.

Norris is accused of saying at one point, “he could not meet with any member of the Memphis Police Department to give a statement regarding the shooting of his clerk, as MPD is ‘infiltrated to the top with gang members.'”
 
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TN Gov. Says He’s Working With Trump Administration On Memphis Crime Strategy, Sending More State Troopers To City​


MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he is in “constant communication” with the Trump administration to develop a strategy to combat crime in Memphis.

Lee announced in a statement he is sending 50 more Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers to support the Memphis Police Department. He also said a task force that includes the FBI is targeting the worst offenders.

The governor did not state whether the National Guard would be sent to Memphis, after rumors of a deployment circulated on Wednesday. He reiterated, however, that “nothing is off the table.”


 
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LouderVol said:
this is just asking for a worse mess. I keep saying it, the cure is going to be worse than the poison.

just like his response to Covid.
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Dems created the mess in Memphis but you complain about it being cleaned up by Trump?

Trump's response to COVID was good as it gets, the left lied about ivermectin, people died..

 
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jmacvols1 said:
Fauci was with CDC for 50 years, with NIAID since the 80's.
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which would have made it common sense to listen to him, but turning the whole country over to Fauci? letting him dictate things far beyond the scope of the actual disease? that is inexcusable.

at some point Trump should have stepped in after it became clear what Fauci was doing.
 
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Trump says he’s sending National Guard to Memphis​


MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — President Donald Trump announced that the National Guard is coming to Memphis during an interview with Fox and Friends on Friday morning.

“We’re going to Memphis, I’m just announcing that now, and we’ll straighten that out,” Trump said on Fox. “National Guard, and anybody else we need. And by the way, we’ll bring in the military, too, if we need it.”

In the Fox interview, Trump said an executive on the FedEx board of directors told him Memphis would be a good place to send the National Guard, telling the president he had to ride in an armored vehicle rather than walk one block to his hotel.

Memphis is “deeply troubled,” Trump said. “We’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”

President Trump says he is sending them to address crime concerns with the support of the mayor and the governor.

This comes after Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris spoke with WREG, confirming that consideration has been given to the National Guard coming to town on Thursday.

He said while the governor also has the right to ask for Guard troops, he is asking Gov. Bill Lee to “please reconsider, if this is on the table.”

“To have individuals with military fatigues, semi-automatic weapons, and armored vehicles patrolling our streets is way too far, anti-democratic, and anti-American,” Mayor Harris said.

 
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I have very mixed thoughts here.

Absolutely hate the federal overreach. Citizens do not care. The state has actively neglected Memphis. Parts of the city are a warzone though.

State went several years without having any highway patrol in Memphis. A couple years ago, One month of slight highway patrol presence and highway shootings decreased 80%. Drug arrests increased. Crime in the city went down 20%. State has bumped up highway patrol presence again. Actually almost to a prorata level. Crime down(very short sample size) 25% over same time period last year. When cops are actually patrolling city roads instead of the interstates, crime decreases. Shocker, huh?

How about putting Memphis on equal footing and if you fail to see improvements, then bring in the Guard or let it rot....

Ultimately, it rests with Memphians. Until they want to improve themselves, it wont matter....
 
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