Burglary- 7.00% of 1000 people in USA experience this. The corollary is 2,159,878 individuals 5. Theft- 20.04 of 1000 people in Memphis experience this. The corollary is 6,185,867indivdiuals

Motor vehicle theft -- 2.39% of 1000 people in Memphis experience this. The corollary is 737,142 individuals (Neighborhood Scout Crime rates for Memphis, TN).

When compared to the nation as a whole, Memphis seems to have an unusually high environment of burglary and other crimes related to theft. For some reason, Memphis' climate fosters an environment where an inordinate amount of people become victims of robbery and the state seems to experience some of the highest rates of larceny in the nation.

Memphis: general safety assessment

These indications of Memphis's tendency towards crime is reinforced by a contrast between the amount of crimes per square mile that occur in Tennessee, and between the amount of crimes per square mile that occur in Memphis.

The amounts of crimes per square mile that occur in Tennessee are only approximately 5.

Those that occur in Memphis, on the other hand, are a staggering 126 per year. This is way beyond the national median of crimes that occur...

These numbers replicated the high peak achieved in the early years of the millennium. By 2006-2008, crime rates dropped (Conley, 2009), but they seemed to have peaked once again. It may be that the recession, as elsewhere in the nation, encourages these high levels of violence.
Source

Conley, C. (June 29, 2009). Memphis a victim of crime reports. Commercial…