Friday, July 5, 2013

Greensboro: How's That Downtown Curfew Working Out So Far?

Crime In Downtown Greensboro Since The Curfew

 7/2/2013 11:03 PM Assault  S GREENE ST/W MCGEE ST

6/29/2013 9:00 PM 100 BLOCK N ELM ST Assault

 6/30/2013 2:09 AM 100 BLOCK SUMMIT AV Assault

6/30/2013 4:00 PM 100 BLOCK LYNDON ST VANDALISM - RESIDENCE

7/2/2013 9:10 AM 200 BLOCK N CHURCH ST Theft/Larceny

 6/30/2013 12:13 AM 100 BLOCK N ELM ST VANDALISM - NONRESIDENTIAL

7/1/2013 9:00 AM W WASHINGTON ST/FEDERAL PL Vehicle Break-In/Theft

7/2/2013 5:57 AM 100 BLOCK E FISHER AV Assault


And that's not all... Source: CrimeMapping.com

So to answer my question: Not too good!

And the weekend has yet to begin... Feel safe yet?

Of course, the astute among you will notice that some of those dates are before the curfew began. My point? Well according the Fox8 news report, Signs of crime in a Greensboro neighborhood,

"Greensboro Police now report crimes to an online system called crimemapping.com. Anyone can pull up maps to check out crime trends in certain areas."

But apparently Greensboro Police don't report all crimes to crimemapping.com. Even some of last Saturday night's 11 assaults and other violent crimes were not reported to crimemapping.com. And why would they when Mayor Robbie Perkins is in the business of trying to sell you overpriced expensive downtown properties in an area bordered by Section 8 rentals and City owned public housing projects the Mayor hoped you'd never find out about.

If I owned a condo in downtown Greensboro I'd be talking with my neighbors about finding a class action lawyer and suing the realtors, developers and others who duped us into thinking we had bought into a safe neighborhood. Roy Carroll is a Billionaire, Milton Kern is a Millionaire, bleed the bastards. It only takes 3 to file class action.

And folks, if you've never read this blog before, I am the person who outed the Mayor's bankruptcy, divorce and Securities and Exchange violations to the world before the local media picked up my stories and ran with them. I am the man who exposed Betty Cone and Grassroots for tax fraud before the media covered the story. Think about it.

You know, instead of building downtown performing arts centers, perhaps we should be talking about building community centers and hiring more cops.