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Durham is getting sporty: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/durham-county-news/3rd-durham-shooting-reported-in-4-hours/
Probably a good thing the incidents didn't make the news, we don't need anymore rioting.Got a massage from SCLEOA that there were 5 LE involved shootings last week end in S.C. I had heard of none. The local news folks must just be ignoring these incidents??
When we opened a transfer station in Durham several years ago (when I was with another company) the station manager and I were out picking up supplies. We saw a couple of Durham police officers so we stopped to say hello and tell them we were a new business in the area and opening up at this address and invited them to stop by any time.
They looked at each other and then back at us and said "If y'all aren't armed I would suggest you get armed. We won't be coming out that way unless it's to pick up a body" We told them we were armed and I joked that we were going to set up a sniper on an overwatch tower. They then told me he better have a machine gun.
Meh, no worse here than most any other city of same size. 95% of all shootings in Durham happen in the same 15-square block area, and 98% are people who either know the other or has a beef with the other.
Never, ever worried about living here, and I rarely feel unsafe.
98% are people who either know the other or has a beef with the other.
Never, ever worried about living here, and I rarely feel unsafe.
I agree with this statement mostly. I was born there and you learn fairly quickly where to go or not go and if you stick to those guidelines, you are safe. My thing is after hearing about a close friends' mom robbed at gunpoint outside a bulls game, me having to show a gun to 3 homeless guys begging for change outside of an ABC, and then various friends having their cars and homes broken into, I'm just like whats the point? Imo taxes are too high to deal with that mess. Not to mention the property values are stupid right now. I saw a house in a terrible neighborhood that had been used as a flop house for addicts and homeless that was also lit on fire and the whole front was charred black with bullet holes for sale for 88,000$. Ive come to realize that i am too poor and peaceful to live in Durham anymore... Good riddance.
Well...finish the story? Did you go belt fed?
Yeah...I guess installing a crew served weapon system would add too much to the payroll...No, but we did consider it. That was a baaaaaad area. As long as you were out of there before night fall it was ok. We did have to put a heavy duty care over the AC unit outside and put heavy duty metal doors on the office building though.
At least the UNC and Duke ER docs get lots of practice.
#silver lining
Glad I live in the middle of nowhere, with all these "big city" horror stories......dang!!When my father moved us down here from Kentucky, he was offered two jobs. One in Durham and the other in Newark NJ. The first day in Durham for interviews he stayed at the econolodge on guess road. As he checked in the room, a guy with a knife came in behind him and robbed him. He was actual on the phone with my mom at the time. She heard everything and when the guy left she said Durham still sounded better than Newark. That was 39 years ago.
Not a real problem in Bahama, we all have land and shovelsLike i said, you learn pretty quickly where to go and not to go...Bahama and Rougemont are like another world though. Beautiful and peaceful.... unless the crackheads make their way up there to steal things.
Not a real problem in Bahama, we all have land and shovels
Yes, northern Durham County is beautiful. Rented up around Rougemont many years ago, but by the time I could look for property it was pricy, the taxes were up, and the County Commission was starting to go progressive too.Like i said, you learn pretty quickly where to go and not to go...Bahama and Rougemont are like another world though. Beautiful and peaceful.... unless the crackheads make their way up there to steal things.
Durham was the city that got me to start carrying everyday. 1993 I did a lot more rental property work than I do now. 1PM in the afternoon, sitting at the corner of Holloway and Alston waiting for a red light. Guy puts a pistol in the passenger side window -which was halfway down. I took off -hoping no one was coming to my left. He put a bullet hole in the back of my tool box on the back -but I think I messed his wrist up when I floored it, Saw him holding it in the rear view. Went to The old police station on Main St. -desk officer just kind of shrugged when I reported it. Nothing ever came of it. Couple years later I was at a call further down Holloway about 6 in the evening. Was going to my truck, officer pulled up and asked me did I have a weapon with me. I replied I did. His response was -" Good, because I can't protect your crazy ass down here by yourself" -I thanked him for his concern. Durham has always been bad.
Durham was the city that got me to start carrying everyday. 1993 .... Durham has always been bad.
Yup. My experiences with criminals here is what turned me into a gun owner.
What @Chuckman said is true regarding most shootings being personal and in limited zones of the city, but there have been more than enough attacks on innocent victims to justify a much more aggressive arrest and prosecution of dirtbags. A big part of our problem is DAs and judges who don't penalize violent criminals adequately.
@Mr. Bggs , for context, Newark's rate is 733/100K pop; Durham is 411/100K pop.
Durham of 93 and Durham of 2020 are two very different cities. In 93 a lot of downtown was still abandoned, with homeless, squatters, and thugs. Durham is safer than Asheboro, Asheville, Elizabeth City, Charlotte... Durham is no more "bad" than most any other city....
@Mr. Bggs , for context, Newark's rate is 733/100K pop; Durham is 411/100K pop.
Yea everytime my mom would see a crime, my dad would ask her if she still liked nc better than nj. She always replied with a YES!
Yea everytime my mom would see a crime, my dad would ask her if she still liked nc better than nj. She always replied with a YES!
As long as ive lived there, Alston ave and Holloway st were pretty rough. when the harley place was jumping, there were enough bikers to keep things halfway even so you could go in the daytime if you wanted to. At night, it was always a no go or go at your own risk type of place.
Remember Few Gardens? I was a young medic (1990ish), they issued us those big, heavy cumbersome body armor vests just for Few Gardens. That one apartment complex accounted for 50% of all shootings and stabbing in Durham. They tore it down...2003? But yeah, Alston/Holloway/Liberty/Elizabeth, and the area around DTCC/NCCU. Tough.