Former Mayor Jamie Mayo has placed crime reduction at the forefront of his bid for re-election, taking aim at the Ellis Administration for what he perceives as a lack of attention to the city’s crime problem.
Speaking at the New Light Baptist Church on Sunday, Mayo criticized the current administration’s approach to crime and presented his own track record for comparison.
Mayo’s criticism of the Ellis Administration is that in the three years that Ellis has held office, there have been a reported 30 murders, a statistic that he believes reflects a concerning trend. Mayo said there have been more, but Ellis has chosen not to classify the deaths as murders in reports.
Fact-checking Mayo’s claim against FBI crime statistics shows that while Monroe has an alarming number of murders each year, the number has steadily declined since 2017, which began…
