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A recent American Bar Foundation study found that for the country’s law school student population in 2019, Black Americans accounted for nearly eight percent. Hispanics comprised just under 13 percent and Asians, just over six percent.
The study also finds that the county’s Black residents accounted for a disproportionate percentage of the jail’s inmates.
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Law enforcement agencies across the Triangle have issued a battery of charges against Dezmond Armond Harper, who has been accused of a violent crime spree that claimed the lives of three people.
“Either you get the rural South, or New York, Chicago or L.A,” Craft says. “But what about towns like Durham, Fayetteville, or Roanoke? We don’t get a lot of those stories.”
Andrews, an N.C. Central alumna, will return to the Bull City, where she started her career in law enforcement, next month.
Ibrahim Cissé is the third N.C. Central University graduate to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship since 2018.
At the crux of these approaches are strategies from the recently created Durham Community Safety Department to respond to crises and 911 calls without law enforcement officers, and, instead, with mental health professionals and social workers.
A Durham police spokesperson says gun violence has been on a downward trajectory. Shooting incidents in the city have decreased by 16 percent, while the number of people shot has gone down by 12 percent compared to the same period last year.
“These cemeteries give us an opportunity to honor our ancestors and treat them in death in ways they were not treated in life.”
