President Donald Trump visited the city of Memphis in Tennessee, on March 23, 2026, to highlight the Memphis Safe Task Force, a federal-local initiative aimed at reducing city crime. During the visit, he held a roundtable discussion and toured Graceland.
It was said that the purpose of the visit was to tout the success of the Memphis Safe Task Force, which has involved federal personnel in local law enforcement. The visit was joined by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and others. The visit was said to mark a significant federal focus on Memphis’ crime rate. At the same time, the visit sparked protests. Some residents protested, and critics addressed concerns over the approach.
What he didn’t and couldn’t, and what he should have mentioned was so-called the “hybrid crime“, including, but not limited the white-collar crime, here in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee.
The physical or violent crime in Memphis and Shelby County is just one genre of the entire genres of crime here in these communities. The other two genres are very serious social, political, and judicial problems here. Mr. President should have known the Case No. CT-4094-20 in order to begin to understand the social problems here, and in order to understand the true meaning and value of this editorial. (The case is pending in the Supreme Court of the United States at the moment. The Case No. is 25-6861).
Such genres of crime are the foundation of social instability and friction let alone to social decay and (allegedly governmental) corruption.
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—The Editorial Board, The Memphis Times.
www.memphistimes.org
Published: Friday, March 27, 2026, at 12:27 P.M.
[Notes] This editorial was written as only the first draft of the editorial. It will be edited/added again if/when the editor has more time to do that.