Crime Update:
City of Memphis Crime Update: January 2006 to February 2010
From January 2006 to the end of February 2010, overall crime was down 34.5% including a drop in violent crime by 39.7% and a drop in property crime by 33.4% across the City of Memphis, when compared to the same time period in 2006.
*Updated crime statistics for the Shelby County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) are still being finalized by the SCSO and will be provided as soon as available.
Implementation of the strategic initiative to reduce crime, Operation: Safe Community began in 2006. Crime statistics and updates are systematically compared to 2006 as a benchmark for success towards full implementation of the 5-year plan.
To view the City of Memphis' full Part I Crime Trends report for January 2006 - February 2010 administered by The University of Memphis and the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission please click here.
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Strategy 6 - Design and implement a comprehensive gang intervention strategy.
Team Leaders: Professor Richard Janikowski, Associate Professor and Director of CCCR, The University of Memphis
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The Memphis Drug Market Intervention (DMI) began in the Hollywood/Springdale community in January. This proven-effective initiative is currently working to eliminate the drug market and transform the Hollywood/Springdale community by returning control to the residents.
As part of the initiative, more than forty drug dealers are being prosecuted because of their drug-related activities within the community.
Additionally, five individual so have accepted an unprecedented opportunity to redirect their lives with the community’s support through the City of Memphis’ Second Chance Program, HopeWorks and Memphis Leadership Foundation.
"Since the DMI initiative and the aggressive work done by the Memphis Police Department's Organized Crime Unit, crime continues to decline in the Hollywood/Springdale community. February 2010 compared to February 2009 crime is down 36.8%. This is a positive step in bringing our community together and to offer that second chance" said Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin.
DMI is a coordinated effort between the City of Memphis, Shelby County, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee, Memphis Police Department, Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office, The University of Memphis Center for Community Criminology and Research and the Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (CBANA), Rhodes College, Memphis Leadership Foundation and the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission as part of Operation: Safe Community.
Monthly community meetings are also being scheduled to update residents and provide opportunities for community involvement. A community clean-up in partnership with the City of Memphis and Springdale Baptist Church is scheduled for April 17, 2010. For more information about the community meeting and clean-up read the Calendar of Events.
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Operation: Safe Community is featured monthly on WREG Channel 3's "Live at Nine" hosted by Mary Beth Conley and Alex Coleman.
City of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton will be the guest on Tuesday, March 30th.
Mayor Wharton will be discussing revitalization of the Hollywood/Springdale neighborhood and his concerns about blight and problem properties in our community.
Recently, the Shelby County District Attorney General's Office hosted the "Do the Write Thing Challenge."
The challenge gives middle-school students an opportunity to examine, through classroom discussions and by writing essays, poems or songs, the impact of youth violence on their lives.
Davont'e Hardaway, an eighth-grade student at Southside Middle School, and Kendalyn Mebane, an eighth-grade student at Millington Middle School, are the local finalists for 2010.
To read their winning poems visit The Commercial Appeal by clicking here.
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District 4 Town Hall Meeting
Hosted by Councilwoman Wanda Halbert
Monday, March 29, 2010
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Glenview Community Center
1141 South Barksdale
Midtown North Community Meeting
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (promptly)
Buckman Laboratories
1256 North McLean Blvd.
Mayor A C Wharton will speak at the Midtown North Community Meeting hosted by Buckman Laboratories, Int. on March 30, 2010 at 6 p.m. Please come prepared with questions and concerns regarding the community to discuss as part of the Midtown North Community Meeting. Buckman is conveniently located in the neighborhood at 1256 North McLean Blvd.
Midtown North Community Clean-Up
hosted by Springdale Baptist Church
April 17, 2010 beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Join us at Springdale Baptist Church for The Great Springdale Hollywood Community Clean-Up as we plant community gardens, clean and cut vacant lots and create a safe and attractive community. For more information call 901-274-6652.
Crime Victims' Rights Week is April 18th - 24th
Victims to Victory 3K WALK
Saturday, April 17, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Join us for the 3K WALK to increase awareness of Victims to Victory services, enhance the community's knowledge of crime victims' rights and raise funds to help victims rebuild their lives. For more information about the 3K WALK and to register visit www.victimstovictory.org.
16th Annual Crime Victims' Rights Awards
Thursday, April 22, 2010
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Lindenwood Christian Church
2400 Union Avenue
FREE
Join us as we honor individuals and groups from our community that exemplify Fairness, Dignity and Respect towards victims of crime. Keynote speakers for the evening will be Ashley Sanders and Heather Fox. They met on March 2, 2007 when one was the victim of a car-jacking and shooting and the other was the hero who stepped up to save a stranger's life.
This event is FREE and open to adults only, please. If you will have more than four in your party, please email jmoody@memphiscrime.org.
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