She's Number 1 - hey!

This week's "thug" is actually now THE most arrested person in Shelby County. Kimberly, or Kim as the officers like to call her, Johnson, has been booked into the Shelby County jail 224 times. Kimberly replaces Larry Wayne West as the number 1 most arrested person because, unfortunately, Larry is no longer with us. Larry had almost lapped Kimberly, as he had been booked 449 times into the "glamour slammer", but alas, Larry met his demise while trying to navigate, of all streets - Getwell. It seems he didn't see the motorcycle, and his last act was an attempted street crossing...I don't think Larry ever got well.

Meanwhile, back to Kim. This "lady" has been very active, and I noted in many of the affidavits, she is described by the arresting officers as a "mental consumer." I've never really liked that term, I much prefer wacko because I like truth in advertising. If you've been arrested a gazillion times, yep, you are certifiably crazy. Kim does not dissapoint us in that regard. Here are some of the charges that have been lodged against her:

TOTAL OFFENSE
156 DISORDERLY CONDUCT
151 PUBLIC INTOXICATION
26 CRIMINAL TRESPASS
13 OBSTRUCT HIGHWAY OR PASSAGEWAY
11 ASSAULT-BODILY HARM
10 ASSAULT Misd
6 PEDESTRIAN WALKING UPON ROADWAY
5 EVADING ARREST
5 MAKE NONEMERGENCY 911 CALL-PROHIBIT
4 VANDALISM $500 OR LESS
3 ASSAULT-OFFENSIVE CONTACT
2 MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
2 PEDESTRIAN SOLICITING RIDE/BUSINESS
2 RESISTING OFFICIAL DETENTION
1 AGG CRIM TRESPASS
1 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
1 ASSAULT-THREAT BODILY HARM
1 CRIMINAL LITTERING
1 DOMESTIC ASSAULT-BODILY HARM
1 FAIL TO APPEAR FOR BOOKING/PROCESS
1 GRAND LARCENY
1 OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC M
1 REC/CON STOLEN PROP-OVER $200
1 UNLAWFUL POSS WEAPON


Two Thousand was a banner year for Kim, but I'm afraid she is slowing down to a crawl. She has only been arrested three times this year. Just for fun, let's look at how many times Kim has been arrested, by year since she began her "excellent adventure" in 1989:

Total Year
66 2000
61 1999
52 1998
52 2002
38 2001
30 2004
29 2006
19 2003
18 1997
9 2009
8 1996
6 2005
6 2008
5 2007
3 2010
2 1985
2 1989

In reading through several of her more recent arrest affidavits, I noticed she likes to call 911 and do things like axe them for $3.00. She has also provided entertainment at several local hospitals, where she cussed everyone in sight, and when placed in the back of a squad car, attempted to kick the doors off. The doctors said she wasn't crazy enough to be committed.... Hmmmm...Memphis we have a problem! You see Kim is one of those people who may be a little bit crazy, but then again... who isn't. The courts think she is too crazy for jail, and the hospitals say she is a criminal, not crazy. I'm thinking it is possible, I mean it is within the realm of possibility that she is BOTH!

So, the question is what to do about Kim and her like-minded pals. This is the question for the legislature, the judges and everyone else who might have a say in this. Unleashing urban terrorists/wackos on the unsuspecting public is just wrong. People who will not do right, crazy or not, need to go to a special place, particularly when they committ the offense of "failure to do right" a couple hundred times.

Thug Thursday Resumes on Kix 106

A month or so ago Brian Elder came to the Memphis Police Department's Real Time Crime Center for a tour. I showed him some of the things we are doing and took him for a ride in the Prowler (license plate reader). I think I can safely say he was impressed. I told him we were having a major impact on crime in Memphis because of the strategies we have developed, including my own CyberWatch program, Blue Crush and the Prowlers, but none of that would have been possible if we didn't have a director who "gets it." Director Godwin has been a Godsend to us because he has pushed for better use of technology and he has listened to our plans, then allowed us the freedom to develop things other agencies haven't even thought of.

So, having said that, let's talk about this "thug thang". I used to do a weekly radio spot with my good friend, Mike Fleming, on AM 600, where we spotlighted people who had been arrested a minimum of 100 times. We had 140 people to pull from and on more than one occassion, we had a repeat spotlight on a repeater because they had ... yep... repeated. After about a year, I felt that I had done about all I could with that, as I could not see us getting any traction with the state legislature (everything has a bogus fiscal note attached to it), so I told Mike I was going to opt out. We had done all we could do.

During Brian's visit to the RTCC, I told him about having done the "TTOTW" with Mike and he suggested we resurrect it for his show. I told him I would think about it, and after talking to a few local legislators, I decided this might be a good platform to try to get a sentencing matrix implemented for TN. I know we have an "overcrowding" issue, but I'm not just talking about throwing everyone in jail. The real objective is to get people to stop this criminal behavior, or motivate them to move somewhere else. I contend that for minor crimes a person should never get the same or a lesser penalty for any subsequent arrests. I also think there should be a threshold number of CONVICTIONS that enact a "life penalty". That's right, a life penalty, as in you will spend the rest of your life in prison because you have demonstrated you will not function in society as anything other than a miscreant. What that number might be is up to the legislature. I think we should look at 10 convictions as the threshold, but make it 20 if you want. We simply need a definite number and a definite response to this anarchy.

I thought we would kick this off with a bang by spotlighting a person who was about as much a desperado as I could find. I think I have achieved that with this weeks thug. Our Thursday, Thug of the Week is a guy who has a lengthy track record (42 arrests), happens to have outstanding warrants and has been identified as being a member of the Gangster Disciples.

Keep in mind this is a bad guy. Do NOT try to apprehend - if you encounter him. Call the MPD (545-2677) or Crimestoppers (528-cash)

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Another one bites the Dust!

The LPR cars are doing great. We had two arrests today by officers on felony drug and weapon charges. Dude is just driving around, when BAMB, the PO-leese zero in. Here's the first one. I'll have to post the second later because the clerk's office doesn't have everything ready to post just yet. You can check the jail for Michael Neely and see what they have later.

Here's the one we have case info on:

Darrell Mackey:

MPD - Doing it!

The Memphis Police Department had a banner year in 2009! Part I Crime (the serious stuff) was down almost 13 percent for the year and 18% since 2006. We will have to work very hard to beat these numbers next year. If we can just get the judges to stop handing out light sentences, the legislature to enact tougher laws, with truth in sentencing, and the prosecutors to - resist bonds on repeat offenders and not plea bargain those repeat offenders cases, we can have the same kind of results this year!


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