Pastor Craig Freeman speaks at the start of a panel discussion by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission to provide an update to its new 5-year Safe Community Action Plan at First Baptist Church Broad. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner speaks at First Baptist Church Broad.(Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
‘We are in a war': Government, community leaders discuss rising crime
Speakers during the panel discussion represented each of the steps against gun violence outlined in the Safe Community Action Plan: focused deterrence approach, violence intervention, federal prosecution of gun crime, communications campaign, reduction in theft of guns from vehicles and Memphis Police Department Gun Crime Unit.