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Community group urges Memphis council for criminal‑justice data, cites delays and jail backlogs
Summary
Memphis Crime Beat, a volunteer nonprofit, told a City Council public‑safety committee its court‑watch program found data gaps in the justice system and urged elected officials to push clerks and agencies to publish metrics that track case flow, bail outcomes and time‑to‑disposition.
Leslie Taylor, executive director of Memphis Crime Beat, urged the City Council’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee on May 6 to press the courts and clerks to publish regular criminal‑justice metrics so the community can identify bottlenecks and fix delays in the system.
Taylor described a volunteer court‑watch program and a “crime funnel” framework that tracks a case from report to arrest, bail setting, prosecution, case result and sentencing. She said data gaps in the justice system — particularly court time‑to‑disposition and reasons for dismissals — make it difficult to measure whether policies reduce repeat offending.
Nut Graf: Memphis Crime Beat told the committee its volunteers have documented systemic…
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