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Posted: December 20, 2012

Durham police close section of Fayetteville Road following robbery

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Durham, N.C. — Durham police closed a section Fayetteville Road near Wortley Drive Thursday morning after four people robbed a home.

Officers responded to a call about a robbery about 2:30 a.m. and took four people into custody as they tried to flee the scene.

Their names have not been released, but police said they threw the victim's belongings outside of their car along Fayetteville Road.

No other information about the robbery was released. Police reopened Fayetteville Road about 6:30 a.m.

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I guess I will say it. Good job DPD on catching these criminals. More people are more concerned about comparing stats to Durham...my question is who cares?!!! I think you all are missing the point here.

johnny2times
December 20, 2012 2:00 p.m.

How does Baltimore figure into the crime rates in NC counties?? Nice statistics though and sure to change outside Durham this yr from the increasing crime headlines lately..

Phyxius1
December 20, 2012 1:01 p.m.

Oops - my decimals are off in that last post. That's what I get for posting on the fly. The correct violent crime rates per 100K for those cities are

Baltimore: 1417.4 Durham: 738.2 Lumberton: 1741.9 Kinston: 1211.7 Rocky Mount: 977.6 W-S: 673.0 Charlotte: 606.4 Raleigh 421.5

lb27608
December 20, 2012 12:33 p.m.

"Also, per capita based on population, Durham has more violent crime than Charlotte or Baltimore. Check out the FBI stats."

Way, way wrong about Baltimore. From 2011 FBI Uniform Crime data (the latest that's available):

Baltimore: 8,885 VCs, pop. of 626,848 = 14.2 VCs per 100K Durham: 1,707 VCs, pop. of 231,225 = 7.4 VCs per 100K

Here are a few other places, just for comparison:

Lumberton: 1.74 Kinston: 1.21 Rocky Mount: 0.98 Burlington: 0.80 Winston-Salem: 0.67 Charlotte: 0.61 Raleigh: 0.42 No data was provided for Greensboro.

Crime in Durham for 2012 is trending lower than 2011, too, so that rate should drop a bit when UCR data for this year become available in 2013.

lb27608
December 20, 2012 12:16 p.m.

Often, the stories end up showing that the violent crime in Cary, Raleigh, Apex are from people from OUTSIDE those cities. Common_Sensey

Can you post proof of that? A quick check of the man stabbed in Apex recently was by Apex residents, Man shot in Raleigh Apt complex..no suspect.. Teens charged in kidnapping/Robbery in Raleigh are from Raleigh, Two wounded in Raleigh stabbing.no suspect..Two out of 4 confirmed are Raleigh criminals or 50% from just 4 recent stories. I would like to see your proof of that statement of " Often " suspects or convicted person of said crime is from Durham and Fayetteville..I didn't see any...But on the other hand we could say all the unsolved crimes from Durham are from people outside the area also without proof...

Phyxius1
December 20, 2012 11:31 a.m.

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