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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 2, 2024

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy met with surrounding county officials last week to discuss the sense of increasing violence in the region. “There was a palpable sense of urgency to the event, conducted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting death of MPD Officer Joseph McKinney and a lethal firefight at an Orange Mound block party,” the Memphis Flyer reports. During the meeting, Mulroy outlined various emergency crime-control procedures his office is taking and cited a new report from the Shelby County Crime Commission showing that crime statistics had actually receded during the last quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. Local mayors reportedly expressed skepticism about those findings.