No ‘more pressing’ issue in Memphis community than juvenile crime
Top left to right: Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., Memphis Police Department deputy chief of special operations Stephen Chandler, CrimeStoppers executive director Buddy Chapman, Memphis Police Department chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis and executive director of the Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis Bill Gibbons.
Bottom left to right: deputy chief administrative officer and chief of strategy and innovation for Shelby County Juvenile Court Stephanie Hill, former Shelby County Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael, former MPD Auto Theft Task Force officer Garrett O’Brien, Vanderbilt Law School assistant clinical professor of law Cara Suvall and the Shelby County District Attorney General Office’s chief juvenile prosecutor Alicia Washington.
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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Julia Baker covers Memphis and Shelby County’s law enforcement agencies and is a member of The Daily Memphian’s public safety reporting team. A lifelong Memphian, Julia graduated from the University of Memphis in 2021. Other publications and organizations she has written for include Chalkbeat, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent magazine and Memphis magazine.
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