Text is really a lousy way to communicate when you’re trying to be sarcastic.

t 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.

GEEEZZ…..May we should move back to Memphis. :p

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?

“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!

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”.