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My wife wanted me to look in N.C for places to live, she has relatives in Raleigh, so I figured Greenville would be far enough away and I've heard good things about Greenville from a friend that moved there last year. I don't get the crime everyone is talking about, unless some stats are missing. Wilmington,DE had 30 murders last year and about 25 in 08.
Wilmington has about 73,000 residents. Chester,PA is like a warzone with only 30,000 people living there. Is there some stats I'm missing, I just don't see Greenville as all that bad. Maybe crime down south is different. I don't live there so take that into consideration before ripping me.
My wife wanted me to look in N.C for places to live, she has relatives in Raleigh, so I figured Greenville would be far enough away and I've heard good things about Greenville from a friend that moved there last year. I don't get the crime everyone is talking about, unless some stats are missing. Wilmington,DE had 30 murders last year and about 25 in 08.
Wilmington has about 73,000 residents. Chester,PA is like a warzone with only 30,000 people living there. Is there some stats I'm missing, I just don't see Greenville as all that bad. Maybe crime down south is different. I don't live there so take that into consideration before ripping me.
The Greenville police chief has established a system of making it difficult for victims of crime to receive cooperation from GDP. The burden of proof seems to now lie with the victim, as the police will make marginal if any effort to investigate a crime reported. e.g.: My friend had her purse stolen. She reported it. The police asked her if she could prove she had a purse to begin with. My friend tried to get the video tapes of the guy using her card at two different places. The GDP would not even do such a simple thing as that. Such crimes do not get officially recorded as crimes, instead they are reported as "suspicious activity." If you're house gets broken into, do not expect so much as fingerprinting. They will give you the report you need for insurance. The GPD does a lot of paperwork now, rather than patrol. I imagine places like Wilmington, Delaware have the gull to to report crimes as actual crimes. If I had to give credit to Chief Anderson for anything it would for his interest in catching large scale drug dealers. What he doesn't understand is if they don't patrol and address the petty crime, they only make everything worse, including the drug dealing. The police have to constantly badger the criminals from every angle if they want to control crime. That's what helped clean up NYC. Here in Greenville, the city and police department are far more worried about liability in being accussed of racial profiling and such. Greenville is by no means a war zone, but you do have to beware of your surroundings and be careful how you interact with someone if you should happen into even an insignificant confrontation. As a growing town and a college town Greenville has issues with blending change with old southern traditions. At times it's almost unnatural.
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Is there some stats I'm missing, I just don't see Greenville as all that bad. Maybe crime down south is different. I don't live there so take that into consideration before ripping me.
I believe it all comes down to perception. The local TV stations sensationalize every little crime that occurs here. They start every news show with 5 minutes of crime reports. When you have that thrown in your face, day after day after day, you will naturally think there is a huge problem here.
I believe it all comes down to perception. The local TV stations sensationalize every little crime that occurs here. They start every news show with 5 minutes of crime reports. When you have that thrown in your face, day after day after day, you will naturally think there is a huge problem here.
The lack of other events and the need to fill airtime makes a deadly combo. No pun intended.
I've never felt unsafe in Greenville. Never even thought about it as a crime-infested area. I'm sure it has its "bad" neighborhoods just like any other city, but overall it always seemed pretty safe to me.
There are tons of other things they could lead with.
I agree. ENC is a large area. But something tells me they don't have the money to have a good investigation team. And it is easier to lead with the blood. Heck, my "one man band" can put out news better than they can.
I used to work in news in the eastern part of the state. I used to produce a newscast. Now granted, this was nearly ten years ago; however, I had a TOUGH time filling my newscast. I would really be STRUGGLING to find enough news to fill the entire 30 minutes. I remember having days with nearly ten empty minutes. There just wasn't enough going on. Now I am learning that some stations are adding extra newscasts. Unless the area has absolutely EXPLODED since I left, I am boggled as to what they are putting on the news.
So to back up what MrBojangles has said, yes, crime is seen as "sexy", gives the appearance of being on top of breaking news. Also, it is frowned upon to get "scooped" on a story--if one station covers a gory murder, and your station doesn't. The station that covers the event may even run promos pumping the fact that "We brought you the EXCLUSIVE story of blah blah blah. News Channel 77--Keeping You Safe". There's a lot of nonsense that goes on at news stations in terms of what stories are covered, and which are not. Also, at the station I worked at, consultants got up in the mix and made things even dumber, in my opinion. And stations in that area are notoriously cheap. If the reporters are making $25,000 a year, I would be SHOCKED. They made about $20,000 ten years ago.
So to sum it up: there are a whole things they could lead with--but they won't.
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There's a lot of nonsense that goes on at news stations in terms of what stories are covered, and which are not. Also, at the station I worked at, consultants got up in the mix and made things even dumber, in my opinion. And stations in that area are notoriously cheap. If the reporters are making $25,000 a year, I would be SHOCKED. They made about $20,000 ten years ago.
