Partnership with CrimeStoppers Trust Pays Program

The 100 Club also re-established a partnership with Crime Stoppers to provide financial assistance to their successful Trust Pays Program in the local high schools. Today Crime Stoppers is led by E.Winslow (Buddy) Chapman. Buddy helped start CrimeStoppers in 1981 while he was the Memphis Police Director. Now, 25 years later, CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County is widely viewed as one of the three most successful citizen tips crime fighting programs in the U.S. The 100 Club is participating financially with CrimeStoppers new Trust Pays Program. In its first year on high school campuses in Memphis and Shelby County, this program removed 54 weapons from the public school systems, including 26 handguns. In addition, school and law enforcement authorities confiscated a variety of illegal drugs ranging from marijuana to crack cocaine.

During the 2009/2010 school year, the program received 176 tips and confiscated guns, box cutters and razors, along with preventing thefts, arson, aggravated assaults and vandalism. The program also confiscated 120 illegal drugs in the Memphis and Shelby County school systems. The 100 Club contributed almost half of those dollars awarded.