Crime fell in first quarter of 2026, commission says
“The trend lines are encouraging across the board,” Bill Gibbons, president of the Memphis Shelby County Crime Commission, said in the release. “Now is not the time to let up. We must continue to implement steps that work, scale them up, and sustain them over time.” (George Walker IV/AP file)
The news of continually declining crime rates comes as anecdotes about local shootings have piled up recently.
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Memphis Shelby County Crime Commission crime public safetyAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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