There are 3 article(s) tagged Richard Janikowski:

• March 2021

  • Richard Janikowski, one of the architects of Blue Crush, dies at 69

    The retired University of Memphis criminologist helped guide and develop the data-driven crime-fighting model.

    By Yolanda Jones March 22, 2021

• August 2020

  • Police force of 2,800 key to community policing, city experts say

    Phyllis Betts and Richard Janikowski have set a new bar for growing the Memphis Police Department ranks to 2,800. They talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about calls for more police amid calls locally for changing the fundamentals of policing and even the share of government funds devoted to policing.

    By Bill Dries August 02, 2020

• July 2020

  • Strickland administration pushes for police force of 2,800, end of bid to kill residency referendum

    The two-pronged effort comes as two criminal justice consultants instrumental in the Blue Crush police strategy are again working with the city and recommending a police force larger than the goal of 2,300 officers by the end of this year.

    By Bill Dries July 31, 2020