Memphis Allies speaks under the fight against crime at the 3rd annual breakthrough conference

Memphis, tenn. (WMC) – Memphis' 3. annual breakthrough conference began on Tuesday.

The two -day event aims to find solutions and reduce the wave of gun power that the city of Memphis is plagued.

Local leaders and numerous stakeholders from the community gathered to concentrate on a goal: to prevent violence of the community.

“We need an answer that comes into the house after shooting. We need an answer that gets into the neighborhood that comes to the community before something jumps off,” said the mayor of Shelby County, Lee Harris.

The conference comes when Memphis has so far approached 100 murders this year.

At the beginning of this month, Memphis Allies stumbles at one of his meetings with gang intervention by the mass shootings. A member of the non-profit organization, 22-year-old Mathew Williams.

The main speaker Melvyn Hayward, who previously worked as a Chief Program Officer at Chicago Cred, a non-profit violence reduction, said he believed that Memphis will change.

“I expect violence to fall in the next two to three years. I am confident, similar to in La, Chicago, New York. It only develops. The ecosystem takes time, people take time, but inevitably when they build up a workforce, more people are served, more people are served, and people are in a positive way in a positive way into a reference” Keynote speaker “.

Paul Young, Mayor of Memphis, says that it is the key to finding a breakthrough.

“We are a resilient community and I believe that Memphis can be the example of how to do it right,” said Paul Young.

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