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Thursday Mayor Bill Bell was accompanied by Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews and Interim Durham Police Chief Larry Smith to address Durham’s rising violent crimes. The new year started off with two murders in the opening days of 2016.
Mayor Bell said the problem is too serious to wait while the city is looking for a new police chief.
Bell asked for the sheriff and interim chief to meet to come up with a new anti-violent-crime initiative.
“We take the issue of violent crime in our community very seriously,” said Bell. “It’s not going to be tolerated.”
Bell said Durham had been seeing a decrease in violent crime until 2014, but since that time the trend had reversed and violent crimes have been on a steady increase over the last year.
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