3 articles by Bill Gibbons :

• July 2020

  • Opinion: How to make Memphis safer from gun violence

    In “Bleeding Out,” a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, writes that "nothing works as well to reduce urban violence as focused deterrence.”

    By Bill Gibbons July 08, 2020

• November 2019

  • Curbing the gang violence ‘epidemic’ is Memphis’ priority

    The Kelly Report submitted to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission recommends expanding the Multi-Agency Gang Unit and ramping up data-driven policing to address gang violence.

    By Amy Weirich, Bill Gibbons November 05, 2019

• November 2018

  • Why do we need to reduce crime and how do we do it?

    Downtown development is booming, with new announcements occurring, it seems, almost daily. 

    By Bill Gibbons November 21, 2018