One year after Memphis Mayor Paul Young announced the creation of a task force on policing and public safety, no results or findings have been publicized. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht for Tennessee Lookout)
In recent months, Memphis residents have been told — by federal officials and echoed by local leadership — that the city is safer.
Crime statistics are cited. Task forces are announced. Press conferences are held. Yet for many Memphians, especially those who live in over-policed neighborhoods, these assurances ring hollow — not because reform is impossible, but because accountability remains largely unproven…