Tag: crime
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The Journalism of Artificial Panic
Last year featured a large sample of breathless reporting and bad takes regarding the economy, crime, and the mid-term elections. I’m calling this, the journalism of artificial panic. For most of the summer and early fall, mainstream media concern trolled all three topics relentlessly. That’s not to say these weren’t real, and important stories. In…
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Memphis broke a record Friday which sent the local media into full hyperventilation mode. The coverage was typical…typically bad.
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Gibbons Returns Triumphant
Bill Gibbons, the former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and a former Shelby County District Attorney General has returned to Memphis to take on crime once again. Gibbons will join the Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis to lend his experience as a DA to the study of…
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Reality Check: “Is crime really down” in Memphis? – Part 2
Tuesday, I sought to answer the question that many are asking…”Is crime really down in Memphis?”, like we’ve been hearing it is for the past few years. And at least for violent crime, the answer is no…its not down enough to call it a trend, though it is down from the 2006 high that is…
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Reality Check: “Is crime really down” in Memphis?
For the past several years we’ve been hearing that “crime is down in Memphis”…and don’t we all feel safer? This assertion has been told by all kinds of folks in public life…elected officials, law enforcement, etc. and is more often than not…unchallenged, even though few people can tell that “crime is down” based on reporting…
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Face hates nose…AKA the continuing saga of the #membudget
Noses are funny. Often the most noticed facial feature…next to the eyes, noses are also one of the most complained about things people have on their face. My nose, is what I affectionately call a “3 finger nose”…meaning, from my face to the tip is three fingers long. You can see it below. Noses, such…