Crime, and more crime
The FBI confirms what we already knew from the city's report: Violent crime increased in Greensboro last year.
Meanwhile, the police department is slow in reporting crime stats for this year. Its Web site provides numbers only through June. In the past, reporting has been more prompt.
Homicides Monday and Tuesday remind us that the violent crime numbers must be adding up again this year.
Yesterday afternoon's shooting of a 70-year-old clerk at Angie's Hats is especially disturbing. What possible reason could there be for killing an elderly woman? What was the big haul that was worth her life? What threat did she pose to her killer?
No wonder crime is such a concern for city voters this year.
Correction: Betty Sibert Thomas was the owner of Angie's Hats, not a clerk, per Scott Hoffmann's update.
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