Opinion: ‘Justice, safety, solidarity, law and order — in Memphis, they have to be the same project’
Christian Man
Christian Man is a social scientist by training and lives in East Memphis with his wife and their three children.
“Amid the frustrating recruitment challenges facing the Memphis Police Department, I would like to turn our attention to a different critical element of our public safety architecture: the frontline civic organizations engaged in violence-reduction efforts.”
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