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New Hanover County ensured defunding public safety would not be a part of the fiscal year 2021-22 budget.
While allocated monies point to the same conclusion, one recent Wilmington shooting also contributed to a step up in resources.
As a result, six New Hanover County Sheriff s Office parks resource officers were added to the payroll.
According to New Hanover County Chief Communications Officer Jessica Loeper, the shooting at Long Leaf Park during Little League baseball games in early May increased interest around a Park Resource Officer program. The county’s Parks and Gardens Department has always worked closely with the Sheriff s Office regarding safety and security in the parks, and this new program will enhance those efforts and create an even more cohesive system with the same deputies as part of this team (as opposed to just using available deputies to work overtime at the parks), said Loeper via email.
Sonya Patrick, leader of the Wilmington arm of the Black Lives Matter movement, said her group had been advocating for those two changes in particular for years. The protests, she said, including the rallies held by BLM/ILM at the 1898 memorial on North Third Street, helped provide the momentum necessary for those changes to occur.
The history of Long Leaf Park it was formerly named after Hugh MacRae, one of the organizers of the Wilmington coup and massacre of 1898, in which dozens of Blacks were killed and others run out of town made many Black residents reluctant to go there. The Confederate monuments still presumably in storage somewhere in Wilmington, their fate as yet unknown are seen by many as an enduring endorsement of white supremacy.
The Wilmington Police Department is investigating a Saturday shooting after a 26-year-old man was injured.
According to reports, the man was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center by a passenger vehicle. He received medical care for non-life-threatening injuries and was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Police investigated the scene shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Walnut Street. ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, assisted officers. As of Sunday afternoon, there were no suspects in custody.
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