In fairness, the George Floyd protests in Goldsboro, NC, did not become “fiery but mostly peaceful”, and the calls for defunding the police were not as strident as other cities, nor did they continue loudly. In fact, the police department received a 5% raise because too many were leaving for surrounding cities who paid more.
WRAL News has learned the victims of a triple shooting this weekend in Goldsboro are a mother and her two daughters.
In the wake of Saturday’s shooting, some community leaders are calling for more action on gun violence in the city’s affordable housing complexes. (snip)
“It’s a lot of questions there and a lot of concerns from the community members,” Robinson said. “If they’re living in safe environments.”
Activists say it’s just the latest incident of gun violence in Goldsboro’s affordable housing communities.
Four people have now been shot on Day Circle in the past six weeks.
Robinson lives in public housing in the city. He says shootings like this are one of the biggest concerns for residents.
Why have public housing areas always been dangerous? The area has held multiple protests for Something To Be Done about the shootings this year, and it has worked out as well as other demonstrations
Robinson told WRAL News that Goldsboro police need to take more action to address gun violence in affordable housing developments.
On Day Circle, a mobile surveillance tower has been set up that is equipped with multiple cameras.
Activists say it’s a step in the right direction, but they’d like to see more officers on patrol there as well.
The problem here is that no one will ever snitch on who the criminals are. Many times it’s a family member or someone they know. The same people will also demonize the police, and are happy to make up stories about the police, accusing them of all sorts of things, even though there are a lot of Black people working for the Goldsboro PD. They’ll complain about the police patrolling. We’ve seen the same types of activists complain about measures like Shotspotter (this was instituted in Durham, has been working great, and the activists are complaining about it being raaaaacist). If the cops start with stop and frisk, pull over more vehicles, they’ll be accused of raaaaacism, even though the police are usually aware of whom the bad guys are. They want it both ways. They want to almost blame the police, yet, rarely blame themselves for allowing a criminal atmosphere to continue. They have to be willing to snitch and let the police in force. They won’t, which is why things rarely change in these areas.
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