John Edwards was partially right: There are two Americas, but they are not separated by income. One has less crime than Europe (even in the poorest areas (that are knee deep in a meth crisis)), has stable family units, values education and personal achievement, works in the productive economy and saves for a rainy day. [...]
So earlier this week, the little bucolic burb of Candor, NC (pop. 800) went and had themselves an election of town commissioners. A quite routine exchanging of hats, a minor change in a minor town. And the first thing the new commission did was to fire 80% of the Candor police department (pop 5): MONTGOMERY [...]
So the epidemic of cops driving badly comes to Hyphen-Town with a bang! Forsyth County Sheriff Bill Schatzman will not face any charges after he ran a red light, causing a crash involving three cars Tuesday. Police Capt. Bill Cobb said today that the officer who investigated the incident had the discretion to either give [...]
4 robbed, assaulted while trying to buy tires GREENSBORO – Four people were robbed and assaulted near High Point Friday when they met with someone to buy tires. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office responded to a robbery case initially reported to High Point police today around 12: 18 p.m., according to a news release. The [...]
From the lovely metropolis of Charlotte, rapidly developing into Detroit South, we see two people who didn’t get Tam’s memo: Item 1: A woman was shot in the arm while standing in the parking lot of an east Charlotte apartment complex. The incident happened around 1 a.m. today at the Stanford Reserve apartments on Kelston [...]
So four local ne’er do wells decided to plunder the incorrect domicile the other night. The local socialist monopoly rag has the scant details. The victim told police that shortly after 10 p.m. he answered a knock on the door of his apartment on Winster Drive. The victim said four men in dark clothing and [...]
The long and tortured story of Pahrump Nevada’s Front Sight academy is about looking like it will come to a close after a Federal Court lowered the boom on the operation for violating pretty much every single one of the terms of the court settlement. It’s just the latest example of scummy behavior from the [...]
Police: Accused shooter hated liberals, expected to be killed 4-page letter outlines frustration, hatred of ‘liberal movement’ The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of “the liberal movement,” and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen [...]
GREENSBORO — Two skateboarders said they were robbed early Thursday morning by three gunmen dressed head to toe in black. Greensboro police said two people were skateboarding in the parking lot of a shopping mall at 3718 Battleground Ave. at 1:39 a.m. Thursday when they were approached by three suspects. The skateboarders said they had [...]
I like keeping an eye on the Crime in Charlotte blog. I think of it as a preview of the Triad in about five years. It’s also good for nuggets of hilarity: 2000 W. Sugar Creek Rd. Division 07 North Tryon 18:14 Robbery from Business – Armed The Dunkin Doughnuts was robbed by a B/M, [...]
