A year ago, President Donald Trump established the Memphis Safe Task Force, and Gov. Bill Lee signed off on it in order to make the inordinately violent Bluff City safer.
Unsurprisingly, opponents of law enforcement were quick to jump to conspiracy theories, saying the coordinated federal, state and local resources would only make things worse, invade citizens’ privacy and violate their constitutional rights.
Instead, some might call what has happened nothing short of a miracle in a city that had for years made the top 10 lists of most violent cities in the country.
By the numbers:
— 12,747 arrests