>>>I thought y'all might enjoy seeing some of our local thugs. I got roped into doing a local radio show last fall, when I sent the radio host some information on how bad the situation is. He conned me into doing a 5 minute radio spot each week, because nobody else can get to the data like I do, at least nobody has stepped forward. If they do, I'll gladly relinquish this because it is time consuming, and I'm starting to think the judges and other politicians think it's all a game. Here are some fast facts:
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>>>140 people who have been arrested 100 times or more.
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>>>Number 1 person on the leaderboard is now deceased - Larry Wayne West (I went to the same school, he didn't go to) 449 arrests
>>>New number 1 is stuck down around 305 arrests - Willie Hooker.
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>>>Over 52,000 people have been arrested between 6 and 15 times in Shelby County over the past 25 years.
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>>>When a person is physically arrested, they are booked and their fingerprints are taken. They are assigned an RNI (records and identifications) number which is linked to their fingerprints. The RNI number is an incremental number that started at 1 back in 1982 and today is over 383,000. Compare that with these cities:
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>>>Tulsa city Oklahoma 382,872
>>>Honolulu CDP Hawaii 377,357
>>>Minneapolis city Minnesota 372,833
>>>Colorado Springs city Colorado 372,437
>>>Arlington city Texas 367,197
>>>Wichita city Kansas 357,698
>>>Raleigh city N Carolina 356,321
>>>St. Louis city Missouri 347,181
>>>Santa Ana city California 340,024
>>>Anaheim city California 334,425
>>>Tampa city Florida 332,888
>>>Cincinnati city Ohio 332,252
>>>Pittsburgh city PA 312,819
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>>>http://memphiscrime.blogspot.com/2008/07/anti-batman-and-anti-robin-thugs-of.html
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>>Too bad I don't have the numbers for Montreal. Are those really above average? What are the numbers for the most quiet places? For example what would be considered normal numbers? What are the numbers based on 1000 persons because It's normal for a big city to have more criminals than a small place.
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>>You guys been lucky enough to reverse those trends over the years?
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>I don't have numbers from other cities, as the numbers I produced are not open to the general public. That is part of the problem. It's public data, but getting it can be a problem. I have an odbc connection to the mainframe, and we pull data all day, every day. Our programs seem to be having the desired effect. Serious crime feel by 4% in Memphis last year, and murders fell by 11%. Things are trending downward again this year, but it would be much better if the judges weren't catapulting these urban terrorists right back into the street, as soon as they are processed in the jail.

Crime going down only because of aging people or because or measures you guys put forward?