Beale Street returns to safety plan with approach of spring, bigger crowds
“We’ve just recently obtained some new ways to detect guns,” Downtown Memphis Commission President and CEO Chandell Ryan said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The DMC will also continue its policy of what amounts to a cover charge that goes to pay the cost of the private security.
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