Guest column: We need a sense of urgency to curb gun violence
“There is no one easy, quick answer to the challenge of gun violence, but there are some common sense steps that could make a significant dent.”
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“There is no one easy, quick answer to the challenge of gun violence, but there are some common sense steps that could make a significant dent.”
Opinion: Loosening the residency requirement for both the Memphis Police Department and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is not the sole answer to the law enforcement shortage, but it is a needed and effective tool in recruitment and retention efforts.
Loosening the residency requirement would make it easier for Memphis to create racial diversity in the ranks of MPD with smart, targeted recruiting. But in a perplexing vote, the Memphis City Council decided to remove the residency referendum from the Nov. 3 ballot.
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.”
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.
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