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"Year over year, we’ve established a goal where we want to reduce crime by overall by at least 10 percent each year and overall we want to have about a 40 percent reduction from where we were in 2023, and so fare we’re trending in the right direction." — Mayor Paul Young
The City of Memphis recently announced specific goals for reducing crime and a plan for increasing safety in the city. In this conversation with Mayor Paul Young shares some of the plan specifics, including...
- the city’s goals and how they were formed
- how Memphis is creating data transparency through Community Safety Dashboards
- how Memphis is collaborating with community partners to both address root causes and respond to trends
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
- The City of Memphis
- Weekly Crime Trend Report
- Crime Analytics Dashboard
- Mayor Paul Young's newsletter
- Shelby County Government
- Heal 901
- Youth Villages
- BLOC Squad 901
- Joint Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
- Memphis Police Department's Code Zero
- S3E42 S.W.I.T.C.H. Things Up a conversation with Memphis Allies and University of Memphis School of Law
This episode is made possible in partnership with Independent Bank.
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