Tennessee Governor, Bill Lee visited Memphis on Thursday, and was said to discuss his plan to bring 20 more troopers to Shelby County. They say that supporters believe the extra manpower will help local law enforcement combat interstate shootings and reckless driving.
Gov. Lee said, “What is the most important thing that we can do to improve the crime situation in a city and that is to increase the number of officers in that city.” Gov. Lee was right in part, but was wrong fundamentally.
What is the most important thing that we can do to improve the crime situation in Memphis? In terms of crimes around Memphis, Tennessee, what is the most important and urgent thing is to detect, investigate, prosecute, punish, and deter those crimes WITHIN the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department.
Without punishing those criminals within the local governments and local police departments, it is not enough just to increase the number of officers in Memphis or in Shelby County in order to decrease or deter the local crimes here around Memphis.
Those crimes which were, are, and will be committed by some of the city government officials and by the police officers of the local police departments were, are, and will be extremely CLANDESTINE and HIDDEN.
The mechanism of those crimes is assumed to be originated from or related with corruption, bribery, and/or psychological(abnomal and detestable) motivations, which are antisocial or illegal.
The additional troopers are not the only or the first solution to the local problems of Memphis community. The governor should write a new proposed budget, which should/must include $30 million in relocation bonuses for officers who want to move to Memphis in order to detect the white-collar crimes including, but not limited to such crimes of corruption of local government officials and local police officers.
The first task of those newly appointed or dispatched police officers and investigators should be about whether Mayor Jim Strickland had ever had or received any kind of BRIBERY before or/and during his incumbency as mayor.
The governor’s budget also should dedicate at least millions of dollars to enhanced local community training for detecting crime by police, crime by city government officials, and crime by white-collar criminals.
Governor Lee! This is our message. You need to make decisions now to affect what’s happening within the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department including other local governments and local police departments.
The strategic goal, method, tools, means, targets, and process of Governor Lee seem to be WRONG.
Governor Lee made a STRATEGIC FAILURE in terms of evaluating and executing exquisite and delicate policies to detect, punish, and deter local crimes around Memphis, TN.
Governor Lee doesn’t know what’s going on around Memphis. He really doesn’t know.
The Editorial of MemphisTV
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Published: March 4, 2022
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