Memphis mayor talks crime ‘suppression’ at One Memphis town hall
Memphis Mayor Paul Young drew a crowd of about 100 Tuesday, May 28, at the latest One Memphis town hall at Cunningham Community Center in Raleigh. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Paul Young said the city’s strategy for crime suppression includes “criminal activity disruption” along with focusing police and city blight efforts in high-crime areas.
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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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