There are 4 article(s) tagged Gun crimes:

• May 2023

  • MPD announces ‘safe summer’ plan to focus on gun and car crimes

    MPD leadership is developing a “robust plan” to address the “myriad of crime issues in our neighborhoods and business corridors this summer and beyond.”

    By Julia Baker May 25, 2023

  • U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuting 26 people for gun crimes with ‘switches’

    Switches, small steel or plastic squares that affix to a semi-automatic weapon and engage the firing pin, can make a gun capable of firing dozens of rounds of ammunition in seconds. 

    By Julia Baker May 22, 2023

• April 2021

  • Violent crime still rising, first-quarter stats show

    Property crimes dropped during the first three months of 2021, according to data from the Memphis Shelby County Crime Commission and the Public Safety Institute.

    By Yolanda Jones April 29, 2021

• November 2018

  • Project Safe Neighborhoods works, and it shows

    The first executive order issued by President Trump in February 2017 was to reduce crime and restore public safety to communities across the nation.

    By D. Michael Dunavant November 15, 2018