The weekly review: WS violence crime drops by 90% in 2025 in the middle of the year, theft rose, community programs expand

Jess Schnur

The chronicle

On Friday, The chronicle Summarized the most important data presented in the middle year report of the city of the public security committee. According to the Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD), the statistics have shown a total acceptance of the categories of violent crime by 90% (including murder, robbery and serious bodily harm, etc.) at the annual relationship (YTD). Despite the downturn over various crimes, theft was 10%on the rise. The WSPD emphasized the rates of missing cases of missing persons and explained that the authorities had started to implement new strategies in order to help with future search queries such as the use of a new website, social networks, and even to recruit a new blood dog, BO, to localize these missing persons. During the debriefing of the committee, there were discussions about updates in various community programs, especially forsyth victories. As a local subsidiary of the non -profit cure cure violence global, Forsyth Wins was implemented in 2022 in response to an increase in violent crimes in the community. Since its foundation, Forsyth has worked Wins to connect younger people with resources and support to prevent violence before it can begin.

Also on Friday, The chronicle emphasized some of the light activities for adults organized by the city department for recreation and parking departments. With leagues in the dodge, volleyball and softball, residents can register for teams during each of the respective sporting seasons. Volleyball also organizes open-net nights on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

On Saturday, The chronicle reported on the recent controversy about the proposed household 270, which aims to increase the death penalty of the death penalty in the state of North Carolina. The bill, which suggests the republicans Bill Ward, David Willis, A. Reece Pyrtle, Jr., Jonathan L. Almond, Jennifer Balkcom, Todd Carver, Neal Jackson, Keith Kidwell and Paul Scott, the repetition of the electric chair and the intake of the death penalty and the options for the electrical chair Get death penalty, as well as the options for those who receive the death penalty, and the options for those who receive the death penalty and the death penalty who received the death penalty. The legislation serves to return the work of the earlier term of office of the former governor Roy Cooper, since many grants for the inmates of the death line were issued under its jurisdiction to combat injustices within the system of death.

On Sunday, The chronicle spoke with the Executive Vice President Ted Ortiviz from the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS) in order to discuss the effects of President Trump's budget proposal for the financial year 2026, in particular the request for the development of housing and urban development (HUD) and, as may be the case in the district in relation to the district Location is. By carrying out various programs to facilitate a fair and accessible living space for those who need support, such as the HCV program (Housing Choice Voucher), the CNI partnership (Choice Neighborhood), the affordable market quota and more, Haws would have to minimize its surgery if it is in the event that they are in the event that they are Powering out, in the event that they can affect the non -impossible.

Also on Sunday, on Sunday, The chronicle Reports on the board of the education committee on the budget proposal of Tricia McManus. In the middle of the current examination of the 16 million US dollar transition in tandem with the continuous search for a new superintendent and Chief Financial Officer, McManus proposed an assigned 615.39 million dollar, including $ 180 million from Forsyth County, $ 385 million from the state and about $ 50 million in federal financing. The board approved McManus's proposal in a 7-2 vote.