While in Washington, D.C., President Clinton’s administration, I addressed a crime conference at the White House. I found myself surrounded by individuals from around the nation, asking questions about my organization, Commission Against Senseless Killings, Incorporation (CASK). I realized that Memphis is uniquely positioned to present to the world ideas about how to address senseless acts of violence. Leaders should take Memphis’ position on the national crime charts, at the top, to educate the nation on productive means of crime reductions. Memphis should export methods and means of combating senseless acts of violence into the world, by doing so, create jobs and build upon a social ill that’s rapidly growing, crime.
Leadership is about discovery - finding ways and means to extract from other societies and governments values, needs, and necessities, growing the economy by drawing external monies and other values into the city.
