Mayor Paul Young credited the deployment of the Memphis Safe Task Force last week for the city's recent decline in crime, noting in a newsletter released by his office that October's crime total fell to a level not seen since at least 2001.

Calling it "remarkable progress," the mayor announced, "In September of 2025, before the Memphis Safe Task Force, we saw the fifth lowest crime numbers in a single month in the past ten years. And in October, we saw the single lowest monthly total since 2001 — and likely before that, but our system can reliably confirm the numbers back to 2001."

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