Memphis is safe: a monologue

Memphis is safe: a monologue By John Johnson
June 24, 2025

Memphis is plenty safe as long as you stick to downtown where the City has lots of cops assigned. The rest of the City? Not so much. But hey, they’re preparing for a renaissance any day now!! You planning a vacation Corvi?

[N.S.: Corvinus/Corvy is a lefty troll at what I call the Steve Sailer Jr. blog, i.e., the Steve Sailer blog without Steve, as opposed to the Steve Sailer Sr. blog, which was produced by Sailer, before he disappeared off to substack.]


American city is safe. A monologue by John Johnson.

It’s fine. Don’t believe all that negative news. Just stick to the downtown. The touristy restaurants and bars. The stadium is safe.

Don’t stick around too late.

I wouldn’t take children down there. No I don’t know of a good place for them. Kind of an adult area.

Oh I see. You wanted to stay near the stadium. Definitely not.

No you don’t want to stay there either. Stay uptown. Yes cancel your hotel.

No you don’t want to ride that light rail/subway/bus. Take an Uber.

You planned on walking there from your hotel? I wouldn’t do that. Sure it is only a few miles but you don’t want to go through there. I think your hotel has a gym.

That area is pretty run down. You don’t want to leave your rental there. You need to use the parking garage over on 5th. The well lit one. Not the other one. Yea the more expensive one. Watch the elevators. Probably don’t use the elevator.

Like I said it is pretty safe….if you know where you are going…..stick to downtown….but not that other part…..the stadium is fine…..make sure to use the parking garage…..no don’t take that light rail…..no we don’t take it……avoid that street…..can’t wait to see you guys this weekend. Let’s go to the mall and eat at Applebee’s which is 15 minutes from the downtown. We rarely go downtown. Last time we went to the tourist bar some guy on the street took out his penis and yelled at us. My friend had her window broken. Yea at that parking garage. The good one. Only happened once. It’s fine though. It is a safe city. Not as bad as Baltimore.

N.S.: Yeah. Nice monologue.

Around 15 years ago, a chicago paper interviewed a nice White lady from florida who had taken her family to the Windy City. She had gotten mugged, but said that she had known that getting mugged was part of visiting chicago. No big deal.