Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 17, 2009 10:32:37 GMT -5
Community discusses crime near A&T
Tuesday, March 17
( updated 11:20 am)
By Sonja Elmquist
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — A conversation about the safety of N.C. A&T students living off campus began Monday night with a student describing her experience of a recent crime: A man running from police pushed his way into her apartment, she said, and she has been afraid ever since.
Police, property managers and officials from the city and N.C. A&T listened to the concerns of about 60 students and community members about the safety of students living off-campus. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle and City Councilwoman Goldie Wells led the forum.
Wells said the forum was, in part, a response to students who came to a council meeting in February asking the city to do more to keep them safe.
“Students that come here and stay here for four years are part of our community,” Wells said. “Our goal is that they will feel safe.”
Students’ safety off campus came to the fore in January when a man was killed and two men were injured in shootings at Campus Courtyard apartments on consecutive weekends. Police have not made arrests in either of the Homeland Avenue crimes.
Assistant Police Chief Dwight Crotts said Monday that, on average, crime is low at student-occupied housing and the crime that does occur often involves nonstudents. In the past month, police have been called to 14 incidents at apartments mainly occupied by A&T students, Crotts said. Ten of those calls reported parking violations, he said.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2009/03/16/article/community_discusses_crime_near_at
Tuesday, March 17
( updated 11:20 am)
By Sonja Elmquist
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — A conversation about the safety of N.C. A&T students living off campus began Monday night with a student describing her experience of a recent crime: A man running from police pushed his way into her apartment, she said, and she has been afraid ever since.
Police, property managers and officials from the city and N.C. A&T listened to the concerns of about 60 students and community members about the safety of students living off-campus. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle and City Councilwoman Goldie Wells led the forum.
Wells said the forum was, in part, a response to students who came to a council meeting in February asking the city to do more to keep them safe.
“Students that come here and stay here for four years are part of our community,” Wells said. “Our goal is that they will feel safe.”
Students’ safety off campus came to the fore in January when a man was killed and two men were injured in shootings at Campus Courtyard apartments on consecutive weekends. Police have not made arrests in either of the Homeland Avenue crimes.
Assistant Police Chief Dwight Crotts said Monday that, on average, crime is low at student-occupied housing and the crime that does occur often involves nonstudents. In the past month, police have been called to 14 incidents at apartments mainly occupied by A&T students, Crotts said. Ten of those calls reported parking violations, he said.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2009/03/16/article/community_discusses_crime_near_at
