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Tourist town Asheville rocked by violence in wake of defund police movement rolls out plan to combat crime spike
NY Post ^ | 04/25/2023 | Jon Brown, Fox News

Posted on 04/25/2023 6:49:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

City leaders of a North Carolina tourist town that has been plagued with rising violent crime in recent years announced a 60-day initiative last week to improve conditions in its downtown district amid a crisis in police staffing.

The City of Asheville said they are taking “targeted steps” to address the rising number of incidents affecting public safety with the initiative slated to begin May 1, according to a news release from city government.

“There are complex circumstances contributing to the safety issues that Asheville is currently seeing downtown and it will take a community response to address these complexities,” the city said. “Multiple City departments are coordinating a City government response and we also need participation from community leaders and partners to address all the factors contributing to the rise in crime.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asheville; crime; defund; northcarolina; police; theft; violence
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Embrace the suck who voted for this crap
1 posted on 04/25/2023 6:49:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any place that has a good amount of leftists is going to see this barbarism.


2 posted on 04/25/2023 6:50:22 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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‘Community Leaders’..........................


3 posted on 04/25/2023 6:52:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good rule to live by. Avoid to the greatest extent possible any locale that has a high concentration of liberals of any sort.


4 posted on 04/25/2023 6:52:38 AM PDT by allendale
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ashville is a blue dot of death in a sea of red.


5 posted on 04/25/2023 6:54:46 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27
There are complex circumstances contributing to the safety issues that Asheville

There's nothing complex. It's the DNC's militant wings: bLM and Antifa. They are fully sponsored and endorsed by the Democrat Party under the guise of whatever justice is in vogue this week; environmental, social, climate, etc.

6 posted on 04/25/2023 6:56:31 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Red Badger

“Safe & Effective” Vaccines


7 posted on 04/25/2023 6:57:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Have to wonder what the judges are like .Catch and release ?

Who is committing the crimes ? Mega MAGA white men ?


8 posted on 04/25/2023 6:58:44 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A midnight curfew, citizens’ militia patrols with body armor, AR-15’s, and authorization and immunity for use of deadly force, and an execution pit set up behind the ‘Ol Courthouse for the truly incorrigible, might make that crime problem just about go away. A correction to a certain community’s attitude is way overdue.


9 posted on 04/25/2023 6:59:04 AM PDT by katana
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Asheville used to be a great place. What a shame.


10 posted on 04/25/2023 7:00:24 AM PDT by gitmo
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Not just big cities with large black populations.


11 posted on 04/25/2023 7:00:26 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was just there recently. Lot’s of tourists travel to Asheville annually to visit The Biltmore - https://www.biltmore.com/

Ran into an older conservative Christian guy who has been there all his life. He has a couple of businesses, including multiple rental units. He would love to get out of Asheville.

Asheville has a “woke” city council which won’t let the police do their jobs. He told me about some of the drug problems and violent crime going on.

Stay away from downtown, especially at night.


12 posted on 04/25/2023 7:00:42 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another example of how elections and the political decisions that follow have “consequences”.
Yet, some people never learn.


13 posted on 04/25/2023 7:00:42 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: ChicagoConservative27

everything liberals touch turns to $hit


14 posted on 04/25/2023 7:01:22 AM PDT by wny
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I didn’t see anything about locking up criminals in Asheville’s anti crime initiative. Just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.


15 posted on 04/25/2023 7:03:01 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s should go to Mexico and sneak over the border. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Asheville is a city that embraces hate; so long as it is the right kind of hate.


16 posted on 04/25/2023 7:03:01 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Demon-crat Party is behind everything that is Anti-America and Anti-American

They are a CANCER on society!!!!


17 posted on 04/25/2023 7:03:08 AM PDT by afchief
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“Asheville has a “woke” city council “

Worse than woke. Antifa backed by Soros.


18 posted on 04/25/2023 7:05:31 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: gitmo

I spent a week in Asheville doing an IT conversion at the Federal Courthouse in Downtown, I thought it was a great medium sized town, it’s tragic that something so nice can be killed off by a bunch of insane liberals.


19 posted on 04/25/2023 7:06:38 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s unpack this:
Liberal white woketards demand protection.
Nightly local news inundated with black mugshots.
It looks bad that more blacks are arrested for crime.
Per capita, more blacks commit crime, so…
Local news media stops showing mug shots (yeah, that helps)
“Black Lives Matter” demands police be defunded because “racism”.
Police are told to stand down.
Black crime rises.
It looks bad that more blacks commit crime.
Liberal white woketards demand protection.
I’m starting to see a pattern here.


20 posted on 04/25/2023 7:08:45 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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