During a Jan. 25 briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed murder rates in Memphis have dropped 50% because ...

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 ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised local officials in Memphis for cooperating with federal ...

Support from Republican state leaders for the crime-fighting operation — and to an extent, from the city’s Democratic mayor — has kept tensions to an uneasy simmer.

City leaders point to a significant decline in crime for 2025, but this year is off to a deadly start.

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 mayor said that since he took office in ...

Memphis Safe Task Force's operation leads to 51 arrests, seizure of firearms, and recovery of missing children.

On September 1st, police found 25-year-old Sontonio Brown lying on the ground near 5486 Oak Bark Drive in Whitehaven suffering from a gunshot wound. He died at Regional One Health shortly after. The ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — 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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is backing up numbers by police that crime is at a historic low in Memphis. A new audit requested by two Tennessee lawmakers — Sen. Brent ...

A fifth suspect has been captured and charged with murder in a deadly home invasion that left a man dead, the Tipton County ...