Police assaults rise 25% for 12th straight period

Recent crime reports present a mixed picture: in one jurisdiction, robberies and retail theft declined while residential and commercial break-ins rose, and assaults on police officers increased for a 12th consecutive reporting period. In Jacksonville, four people were injured in three shootings over roughly four hours, with investigators yet to announce suspects. A 2025 ranking based on FBI figures placed Memphis and Detroit among the highest-violence large U.S. cities, while noting that Memphis’s crime levels had continued to trend downward and that citywide figures mask neighborhood differences. An opinion article questions the reliability of crime statistics and argues that reporting practices can distort trends; its claims about race and crime are the author’s assertions, not independently established findings in the article.