Mayor Paul Young released a statement Monday, a day after the FBI director called the city the ‘homicide capital of the USA.’ ...

Mayor Paul Young and Police Chief C. J. Davis touted results of recent crime-fighting operations in Memphis on Wednesday.

But city officials say they need to improve in other categories such as property crime, which climbed last year by 3.5%, and retail theft, which spiked by 16%. Memphis Police officials told the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Talks continue about bringing a crime lab to the city of Memphis due to the closest forensic testing facility being miles away in Jackson, Tennessee. It’s been an ongoing ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The City of Memphis announced Monday that homicides, murders and car thefts all decreased in 2024, leading to an overall crime rate 13% lower than that of 2023. "We’re not going ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

In 2024, the aggravated assault rate per 100,000 was 2,094 for Memphis, compared with 1,547 for Detroit, 1,069 for St. Louis and 350 for New York City, according to FBI Uniform Crime statistics ...

In the letter to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Memphis City Attorney Tannera George ... The officers were part of a crime suppression team called the Scorpion Unit, which ...