Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Will "No Gang Zone" Work?

New plan in place for fighting gang violence
I've covered dozens of news conferences over the years during which police board up drug houses and talk about how it's going to clean up the neighborhood.  It usually doesn't work.  But this time a nuisance action was filed against an individual gang that has been the scourge of one Memphis neighborhood.  It's the first such action ever taken in Shelby County.  It sounds good in theory.  I hope for law abiding neighbors that it works.

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