The Wilmington Housing Authority is aiming to redevelop Hillcrest, an 80-year-old development that was supposed to only exist temporarily for war efforts. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON ââ Between 13th and 16th on Dawson Street, garments swing on clothes lines in front of dull, masonry one-story buildings. The dwellings, originally built with the intention to later tear down, house more than 200 impoverished Wilmington families. Spread out amongst 26 acres, the public housing structures decay as investors pour millions into revitalizing and enriching the surrounding land.
Hillcrest was built as temporary housing to support the efforts of the Second World War. Itâs now 80 years old and crumbling. Meanwhile, City of Wilmington and New Hanover County leaders frantically search for a solution to the areaâs lack of affordable housing as the workforce population skyrockets. The answer could be dense housing ââ apartments and townhomes â
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As the latest numbers show, only 40 rape kits remain untested in the Wilmington area
Attorney General Josh Stein s Office continues to request additional funds to process any backlog of rape kits in the state
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein s initiative to decrease the number of untested rape kits in the state has also helped solve more rape cold cases including in the Wilmington area.
According to Laura Brewer, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein s communications director, there are currently 16,186 rape kits that have been inventoried since the last inventory count in 2019. Of those, 2,925 kits completed testing, and an additional 5,342 are in process.
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Since 2008, the Wilmington Police Department has annually
released a report from its Internal Affairs division (after 2016 known as the Professional Standards division). Traditionally, these reports are released in the spring or early summer, and have been two to four dozen pages, containing a number of data sets and infographics.
The 2019 report was quietly released in mid-October. It was just four pages long and wasn t posted along with the past decade of other reports (it was posted as a news item on the department s website,
here). The report was largely good news for the department, showing a decrease in citizen complaints and allegations, and an decrease in sustained investigations (after a spike in 2018).