In mayoral bid, J.W. Gibson aims to strike balance between crime and police reform
J.W. Gibson announces his bid for Memphis mayor during a rally on Monday, March 6, 2023 at Stax Museum of American Soul Music. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The business and philanthropic leader kicked off his mayoral bid Monday, March 6, in South Memphis straddling the issues of crime and police reform.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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