Durham leaders keep pushing to lower crime rate

Durham, N.C. — When it comes to reducing violent crime, Durham leaders believe the city is on the right track.

Durham's violent crime rate is more than double the rate in Wake County. Mayor Bill Bell and members of a special roundtable have been meeting since late last year to develop crime-fighting strategies.

Those strategies include improving communication and coordination between law enforcement, the District Attorney's Office and judges.

At a community meeting Thursday night, Bell said building trust between neighbors and law enforcement will help lower Bull City’s crime rate.

“I think the cooperation from the community is very key,” he said. “And getting the community to know law enforcement and getting law enforcement to know the community, I think is very, very important. And I think the sheriff and the police chief have taken steps in that fashion.”

Durham leaders did reveal a bit of good news during the meeting: a graph showing that crimes involving guns declined from March 2011 to June 2012.

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I live in Durham and this article is a joke! Crime is definitely getting progressively worse a man just got attacked on Friday in the park. He was minding his own business riding his bicycle and 4 fools beat him up to try to rob him and it didn't even really make the news there was a very small article about it and he's listed in critcal condition! This happened 2 days after this so called "round table". They need to do what every other city does....cops need to "walk the beat" crime is only going to get worse if they keep pretending like it's getting better.

Lovely Breeze
July 30, 2012 1:41 p.m.

i see no causal analysis in the article between what is being done to curb crime and the effect on the incidence of crime itself.

maybe its just happenstance.

wakewiseone
July 27, 2012 4:31 p.m.

Durham has a large population of people who neither respect the law, life, or each other. That being said, the crime rate will stay high and nothing will change that because those people keep breeding and raising another generation to live as animals. Good people of Durham be careful and stay safe. It's only going to get worse.

NCHighlander
July 27, 2012 3:35 p.m.

Look to the culture that favors criminal activity as means of employment and to government programs that subsidize tax consuming lifesyles.

dirtydozen431
July 27, 2012 3:16 p.m.

It's called: KEEEP THE OFFENDERS LOCKED UP~

not my real name
July 27, 2012 12:31 p.m.