Hickory Hill to get 26 new surveillance cameras
“Anything that we can do to deter crime is the issue,” said Miska Clay Bibbs, the Shelby County commissioner who represents District 11, which includes Hickory Hill.
Topic: juvenile crime
RSSThere are 19 article(s) tagged juvenile crime:
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November 2024
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State rep, DA, others advocate for access to juvenile records in setting bail
Several local officials are backing a new state law that will allow judges and judicial commissioners access to at least some juvenile court records in setting bail.
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Opinion: Crime Commission to host public-safety forum
The forum will address juvenile crime, bail, truancy and other factors with speakers including representatives from the Memphis Police Department, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, General Sessions Court and the school system.
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April 2024
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Judge: Population size doesn’t excuse no visitation at juvenile justice center
Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon said only about 50%-60% of children in the facility attend classes. He also said the court mandated Feb. 28 parent visitation, which has been suspended for four years, be reinstated.
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Sheriff’s office struggling with new youth justice center
A group of organizations allege the youth detention facility’s leadership and staff deny visitation and do not provide sufficient education or time outdoors.
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March 2024
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Gibbons: Tackle crime by fixing what’s broken
The president of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission says we need to change the juvenile justice system’s arbitrary 19th birthday cutoff and use public safety as the overriding factor in bail decisions.
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June 2023
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‘They still have a chance:’ New juvenile justice center to open soon
“Even though the kids are being allegedly accused of things, the community should realize that they’re still kids and what we want to offer them is some type of stability and sense of safety.”
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May 2023
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Mark White: ‘The disease of undisciplined youth’
“With drag racing, carjackings, car thefts, armed robberies — some resulting in death of victims — murders, etc., being reported every day in our city, we are well past the time of ‘we need to rehabilitate our youth.’”
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Opinion: New legislation will reduce violent crime in Memphis
State Senator Brent Taylor discusses increasing penalties for certain violent crimes and proposed legislation that seeks to stem the rise in juvenile crime.
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April 2023
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MPD will continue to operate Greenlaw as community center
MPD brass told the Memphis City Council the department plans to take youth breaking curfew Downtown to the Greenlaw Community Center, which the city’s parks department is relinquishing to police.
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March 2023
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‘The kids that did this to us’: Juveniles driving car crimes higher
A large part of the area’s current juvenile crime issue centers on car thefts and thefts of property from vehicles.
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Minor Offenders, Major Offenses
No ‘more pressing’ issue in Memphis community than juvenile crime
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No ‘more pressing’ issue in Memphis community than juvenile crime
In the 1980s, juvenile offenses were mostly crimes like shoplifting, petty theft and auto thefts. Now, children currently held in detention are accused of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, carjacking, rape of a child and other crimes.
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Minor Offenders, Major Offenses: A series by The Daily Memphian
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‘Trying to survive:’ Chronic absenteeism, more than truancy, concerning to local educators
In the latest from our “Minor Offenders, Major Offenses” series on juvenile crime, criminalizing students for frequently missing school can actually make things worse: “You label a kid as delinquent, you actually create a future criminal.”
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Minor Offenders, Major Offenses: A series by The Daily Memphian
The Daily Memphian has been working to dive deeper into the pressing issue of juvenile crime. It’s complex and uncomfortable, with outsize effects on the city, its citizens and its very future.
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Here’s how Tennessee lawmakers plan to target juvenile crime this session
In this installment of “Minor Offenders, Major Offenses,” we look at how lawmakers intend to build on the mandatory-minimum “truth in sentencing” law with bills that treat juveniles as adults in more circumstances. Many of the tough-on-crime proposals pivot from former Gov. Bill Haslam’s moderate juvenile justice reform effort in 2018.
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Opinion: Almost every major crime begins with a stolen car
A former MPD officer talks about his experiences on the police department’s Auto-Theft Task Force and the juveniles he encountered — repeatedly — during his time on the force.
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‘It’s not going to go away unless we do something:’ Local leaders eye juvenile crime solutions
In Memphis, leaders seem to agree that youth are able to get guns too easily and that they are seeing a trend of younger juvenile offenders and more violent offenses. But there are varying opinions on how to deal with those trends.
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January 2023
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Community leaders, stakeholders to discuss solutions to juvenile crime
“It’s hard for me to go to the grocery store or a restaurant or church without somebody approaching me, expressing concern about juvenile crime,” said Bill Gibbons, president of the Crime Commission. “People are upset about it in this community.”
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November 2022
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42% more juveniles facing criminal charges than last year
And, of all juvenile criminal cases, 40% involved juveniles who are considered repeat offenders.
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