Crime has dropped in Memphis. ‘Why’ is a question that still divides.
Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis (right) delivered statistics to the Memphis City Council this week that show the number of calls for service to the MPD is down. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis Safe Task Force was among the topics discussed in a Behind The Headlines reporters roundtable.
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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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