When the Trump administration set up a federal task force to address crime in Memphis, Tennessee, last month, it cited crime data that didn't match statistics from the city's police department. While ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 2025 will go down as a historic year for public safety in Memphis. Last week, Mayor Paul Young said “serious crimes” were at a 25-year low. The city’s murder rate is lower than it’s ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. Marshals announced that the Memphis Safe Task Force has made over 4,000 arrests and has significantly impacted crime since being deployed to Memphis in September, according ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Violent crime in 2025 decreased 27% to levels not seen since before the pandemic, according to data released Wednesday by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. There were 11,405 ...

Declines were "aided no doubt by federal and state assistance." Memphis recorded its lowest major crime rates in nearly a decade in 2025, a year public safety officials described as a “breakthrough ...

A federal task force in the city has been targeting crime and undocumented immigrants since October. Observers say they have ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — President Donald Trump mentioned the National Guard deployment in Memphis during a news conference on Saturday providing details about the military operation in Venezuela. Trump says ...