WREG-TV Memphis - Nashville homicides spike in 2005
OK. I move to Nashville and the murder rate goes up. That is disconcerting.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville could end up with 100 homicides in 2005 — nearly double the previous year’s mark and one of the city’s deadliest years on record.
The total will reach 100 if police determine a woman whose body was found burned under a pile of debris Tuesday was a homicide victim.That would make last year the third deadliest since countywide record keeping began in 1963 and approaches the record high of 112 in 1997.
In 2004, 58 homicides were recorded.
The homicide total excludes justifiable homicide or killings that were ruled self-defense.
One of the reasons I moved from Memphis to Nashville is the crime. I shouldn’t have to explain that. But for the uninitiated, Memphis has a bad crime problem. I don’t say that after looking at numbers or anything. I say that after living there. Nashville on the other hand seem to be much better, if we could only keep the politicians from Memphis out of the city.
I swear though. I did not bring it with me….
I also wonder about this anyway. Why is it being reported on the website for a TV station in Memphis?
January 2nd, 2006 at 10:38 am
Well, we had so many we exported them via Rep. John Ford’s many trips to the state Capital. Tn waltx my eye. I tell you he’s INNOCENT (OK–not really)
January 2nd, 2006 at 4:29 pm
It doesn’t get reported in Nashville because the media, from the television stations to The Tennessean, all support Serpas regardless of what he does.
Anyone who lived here prior to his Reign of (t)Error will remember that Emmett Turner ran a corrupt Department but that it was still relatively safe to walk anywhere downtown.
Serpas on the other hand has focused all of his energies on catching speeders, DUIs and enforcing distance laws at strip clubs. As if those effect “quality of life” issues as much as the rampant panhandling problem that has festooned under what I’d jokingly refer to as “his watch”.
January 2nd, 2006 at 8:13 pm
And no matter how many tickets they write, there will always be idiots who go 80 down Briely Parkway in the construction zones….
January 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am
No, man, it’s you. It came with you.
“Memphis has a bad crime problem. I don’t say that after looking at numbers or anything. I say that after living there. Nashville on the other hand seem to be much better,”
Bingo! Check your perceptions. You *perceive* Memphis has having a much worse crime problem than Nashville. In actual statistics, they ain’t that far apart, although Memphis leads Nashville per capita in all forms of reported crime except rape and aggravated assault for 2004. Memphis has one of the worst crime statistics in the nation, but Nashville is only slightly better.
Now, then, since you RAN AWAY from Memphis, you lost your license to gripe about it. Please confine your sniping to your current location. Complaints about Memphis should come from those of us who choose to remain in our fair city, and not from those who choose to be outsiders. Attend to the plank in your city’s eye, man!
January 5th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Well, this isn’t really how I wanted to start off the new blog. But I must respond.
Yes, I perceive it. I think I made that clear when I said “I don’t say that after looking at numbers or anything. I say that after living there.” This to me makes it quite clear that I am working off my own perception, instead of a bunch of numbers that someone may or may not have massaged in some way to express their own perception of reality. It happens. To be honest I don’t like statistics. I never have. Statistics can’t account for every variable. This particular issue can have a virtual plethora of variables that could throw off any numbers that don’t take them into account. I’d much rather go with my gut feelings, which are based on my experiences.
In the months before Suzette and I moved here, our car was broken into in the Church parking lot while we were at Mass, two women were robbed in the parking lot of our condominiums and a co-worker of mine was mugged on the door step of his home. All of these things happened in “nice neighborhoods”.
In the months since Suzette and I moved here, I had about a guy, who knew this guy whose brother had his brand new Xbox 360 stolen from him in the parking lot of Best Buy (in a not so nice neighborhood) on the night they first went on sale and a lady flipped me the bird one day for not speeding in a school zone.
I’m not saying that crime doesn’t happen here. I’m just relating my experiences. That’s what this blog is for. Relating my experiences and expressing my opinion.
As for me not having a right to say anything about Memphis, well I was born, raised and lived there for 34 years. It is my home town and I love it. I hate what’s happened to my hometown. I feel it’s not only my right, but my responsibility’s to speak my opinions on it.
Now, as for me “RUNNING AWAY” from Memphis, you yourself know that’s not true. The biggest reason was the fact that I was in a dead end crappy job, which no hope of finding something new in a market flooded by FedEx with out of work IT people. The other big reason is a personal family matter that quite frankly is none of whoever may be reading this blog’s business. IIRC, I have discussed it with you though Mark. The crime thing I mentioned is actually low on the list. Note that I did say, “one of the reasons”.
Nashville is far from perfect, but it’s where i enjoy living the most between the two. That’s what’s really import. Right?
January 5th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
GEEEZZ…..May we should move back to Memphis. :p
January 6th, 2006 at 6:31 am
Hey, no offense meant, man. Yes, I know the reasons you left, and they are very good reasons. I hope you and Suzette remain happy in Nashville, or wherever you might find yourself.
Text is really a lousy way to communicate when you’re trying to be sarcastic.
January 6th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Oh sorry, Mark. I actually did take you comment quite literally. If it was anyone else who I didn’t actually know writing what you did, I would have taken it as sarcasm. I think the problem is with me. I have trouble discerning between your virtual personality and your real personality. They are a little….UM….different.
January 6th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Marc, all these years, and still you don’t know me? Deep inside, I’m exactly the same jacka** that you saw on the outside.
:-))
January 6th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I guess I don’t. The “jacka**” you wrote shocked me quite frankly…..