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Number 24511
Subject Crime
Source Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
State TN
Year 2009
Publication Date 09/27/09; 10/18/2009; 11/01/2009; 11/22/2009; 12/20/2009
Summary This story examines the "real impact of crime in Memphis-the city often rated as the Most Violent and most crime-ridden in America in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports". This series was built off of a never before created database, which held every criminal arrest made in Memphis in the past 10 years. It consisted of "about 1 million records from the past decade".
Category Contest Entry
Pages 49
Keywords law enforcement; criminal; police department; statistics; records; victims; crime-ridden; violence; neighborhoods
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