Letter to the Editor: Crime will destroy our tourist industry
Memphis Police officers on the scene of an apparent carjacking at Poplar Avenue and Hawthorne Street on Sept. 7, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
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A call to local government leaders: “It is time to get your heads out of the sand and recognize we have a problem. And that problem is going to kill our budding tourist industry.”
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