[Roccus]

Blue Crush sounds much like the tactics successfully employed by Guilliani and Braton in NYC.

[starfish923]

Drugs.

The bane of our society.

Young men idle, stoned, drunk, fatherless, jobless, uneducated, in/out of prison, having children with women who are the same kind of people.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hmm, I noticed there's no reference to the race of the person who robbed the victim. Ok, there's been a sudden increase in crime over the past year so what else has risen in the past year? Could it be illegals?

[LRS]

I wonder how many Chocolate City refuges relocated in Memphis?

[Thombo2]

IDing high crime areas is a great idea,but how about some more pro-active measures?A friend of mine briefly drove a delivery truck for a liquor distributor in the Detroit area.After a spate of highjackings/roberies,the distibutor ID'd each truck with a number on top which was visible to police helicoptors,an armed employee rode shotgun,no stops in between,and the driver called in after each delivery.Certainly no cure,but i bet the same in Memphis would deter a lot of potential crooks.

[Post-Neolithic]

Looks like M13 types and Katrina rejects are the major cause of the rise in crime rates in these areas.

Link to Blue C.R.U.S.H story

[bert]

Political corruption is in decline because the Black Ford family has pretty much all been indicted.

Harold Jr is still alive and kicking but that too will pass.

[verity]

Quagmire.

[BellStar]

What percentage of your population are made up of evacuee's from Katrina?

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"When beer truck driver Wes McNeal was fighting for his life with an armed robber, he would have loved to have seen a blue and white Memphis Police cruiser turning the corner at Looney and Dunlap."

Why didn't he ventilate the robber and return him to room temperature?

Michel Frazier

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Citizens need to arm themselves instead of waiting for the cops like the girl tied up on the railroad tracks in those old black-and-white silent movies.

[Labyrinthos]

My theory is that that Memphis is still feeling the effects of Katrina.