There are 7 article(s) tagged Shelby County Crime Victims & Rape Crisis Center:

• November 2023

  • Crime rates continue to climb across Memphis

    Bill Gibbons, president of the crime commission, said Memphis is not the only city seeing its crime rate rise, especially in the car theft category, “but that is little comfort.”

    By Julia Baker November 05, 2023

• March 2023

  • Rape Crisis Center’s expansion fosters mental and physical care

    The expansion comes as the CDC extends the timeframe for when sexual assault victims can receive a forensic exam.

    By Alicia Davidson March 03, 2023

• April 2022

  • Crime Crisis: Two women, 2 violent crimes, and the psychological scars that remain

    A woman who was carjacked and another whose son was killed don’t know one another. But they share a bond. Both lives were devastated by violent crime. 

    By Don Wade April 22, 2022

• June 2021

  • Support group offers solace to survivors of gunshots

    After a bullet shattered her jaw during a robbery, Alexis Chambers had to learn how to talk again.

    By Yolanda Jones June 03, 2021

• August 2020

  • MPD fixing troubles in Sex Crimes Bureau – but not the ‘bid system’

    This week, the Institute for Public Service Reporting at The University of Memphis, in partnership with The Daily Memphian, reveals the results of its exclusive investigation into how more than 12,000 rape kits went untested and the impact that backlog has had on victims. 

    When the Memphis Police Department confirmed in 2013 the discovery of an estimated 12,000 older rape kits, many never tested for DNA, Susanna Parkinson refused to refer to the long-ignored evidence as a “backlog.” Instead, Parkinson, who worked closely with MPD as a longtime sexual assault intervention specialist and victim advocate at the Rape Crisis Center, called it “The Mess” — a collection of haphazardly stored and discarded evidence, poor decisions, missed chances and even wanton indifference to sexual assault. 

    By Marc Perrusquia August 04, 2020

• February 2020

  • Grief group helps teens, parents who’ve had to ‘face death too soon’

    The Shelby County Crime Victims & Rape Crisis Center has launched a pilot teen grief program to help young people affected by homicides get counseling. 

    By Yolanda Jones February 18, 2020

• September 2019

  • Two conferences will address domestic violence this week

    Two domestic violence conferences will be held in Memphis this week to address domestic violence in the community. 

    By Yolanda Jones September 23, 2019