Crime Statistics and Community Safety

A couple things that I wanna talk about.

The task force has, um, made more arrests for

murders

than actual murders that have occurred.

Um, the task force is arresting someone wanted on a murder

charge

every two and a half days. So during a work week,

two guys are being arrested on a murder charge.

Overall crime is at a 25-year low, down 34% from last

year. Um, you, you talk about the statistics and,

and sometimes they go

in one ear and out the oth- out the other, but it makes a difference in our

community when you talk about murders being down 33%, sexual assaults

down 25%, motor vehicle thefts are down 54%,

robberies are down 40%, aggravated assaults down 24%.

So those are all numbers that, that are just percentages, but what it actually

means on a day-to-day basis are the citizens of, of, of,

of this county,

the citizens of Tennessee are, um, in a safer

environment, in a safer street, in a safer restaurant, in a safer

building than they were two years ago.

And that's true across the country.

We're here to talk about Memphis, but the, the,

the historic drop in crime that we've seen in this city is,

is something that we've

seen all across the country, and it's, it's in, in...

it's completely the result of the work of the men and women

who, um, who wear the badge and who are working hard

to keep our community, um, our communities safe.