"Year over year, we’ve established a goal where we want to reduce crime by overall by at least 10 percent each year and overall we want to have about a 40 percent reduction from where we were in 2023, and so fare we’re trending in the right direction." — Mayor Paul Young

The City of Memphis recently announced specific goals for reducing crime and a plan for increasing safety in the city. In this conversation with Mayor Paul Young shares some of the plan specifics, including...

• the city’s goals and how they were formed
• how Memphis is creating data transparency through Community Safety Dashboards
• how Memphis is collaborating with community partners to both address root causes and respond to trends

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• The City of Memphis
• Weekly Crime Trend Report
• Crime Analytics Dashboard
• Mayor Paul Young's newsletter
• Shelby County Government
• Heal 901
• Youth Villages
• BLOC Squad 901
• Joint Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
• Memphis Police Department's Code Zero
• S3E42 S.W.I.T.C.H. Things Up a conversation with Memphis Allies and University of Memphis School of Law

This episode is made possible in partnership with Independent Bank.