More Police Protection Allotted for High-Crime Areas
L Aldermen fund 16
foot patrol officers
By DAVID L DILLARD
Chronicl* Suff Writer
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The Winston-Salem Board of
Aldermen adopted a program Tues
day night that will place an addi
tional 16 police officers on foot
patrol in areas considered high
crime neighborhoods.
According to Capt. Mike
McCoy, all 16 are earmarked for
public housing with 10 going to the
Kimberly Park area and the other
six scheduled to patrol the Piedmont
Park area.
"They are tentatively placed
now, but crime areas tegd to change
so we do have the flexibility to
move them around," McCoy said.
Mayor Martha S.Wood has repeat
edly called for strengthening and
enlarging the police patrol to curb
the spread of neighborhood vio
lence. In a press conference last
week. Wood cited Cleveland
Avenue Homes as a neighborhood
where crime has decreased since
foot patrols were instituted.
According to Ann Jones, bud
get and evaluation director, the total
"costs involved with the foot patrol
program, including equipment, is
$555,140.
Alderman Larry Womble, a
long-time advocate of neighborhood
foot patrols, said he is in favor of
the program because it closes the
gap between police and citizens.
"When policemen are out walk
ing their beat, they get to know the
people and the people gel to know .
them," Womble said. "This gives
the neighbors a different perspective
of the policeman and creates a per
sonal relationship which can prevent
crime.'' ^
Mayor pro tempore Vivian
Burke is also pleased with the
neighborhood foot patrol.
"We now have officers who can
give the timeheeded to the people
in the particular community. I'm just
happy about it," Burke said. She
said the public housing facilities are
sometimes referred to as high-crime
neighborhoods because outsiders go
there with criminal activity.
"People come into the neigh
borhoods with guns and drugs, and
the foot patrols will protect the peo
ple who live there from these
crimes," she said. "We're trying to
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prevent the areas from becoming
high-crime neighborhoods.
The only way to alleviate the
crime, according to Womble, is to
have police and citizens working
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together.
"It's not going to work just with
the police; we must have policc and
the citizens in the neighborhoods
working together," he said.
Blacks Say Police
"They're scared," said April Galloway of
Kimberly Park, referring to white officers who
patrol black neighborhoods. "He's (Piscitelli) a
white man in a black neighborhood."
Pamela Little, also a resident of Kimberly
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arrested a man on the comer smoking a mari
juana cigarette. She said the man wasn't causing
trouble, or selling drugs, yet several officers
showed up to make the arrest
"If they go looking for trouble, they'll find
neighborhoods, they'll find it there, too."
She said she has driven on Stratford Road
and seen white youths drinking beerjout in the
open and the police did not bother them/
"They're always here," she said of the
police.
She said she blames the police presence for
the increased number of confrontations involv
ing law enforcement officers and members of
the black community.
While some residents complain, law
enforcement officials, however, defend their
actions. Capt. Michael V. McCoy, the supervi
sor of Piscitelli, said some officers are more
sensitive than others to minorities.
"White or black, some cops deal with
minorities better than others do," McKoy said.
Bines, 26, was killed last Wednesday after
he interfered with Piscitelli's attempt to make an
arrest in the 1100 block of East 18th St A wit
ness said that Bines came upon Piscitelli and
another man fighting in the front yard of an
Piscitelli
sprayed pepper spray at both men before the
fight between Bines and Piscitelli flowed to the
backyard. There, surrounded by several on
lookers, the two men fought. Piscitelli drew his
10mm handgun and accidentally shot himself
Perry Anderson, president of the Washing
ton-based National Organization of Black Law
Enforcement Executives, said that during his
20-plus years in law enforcemenuhe has
encountered incidents
where a white officer
killed a black.
This incident, how
ever, "shouldn't be|
looked at as this office
intentionally shot this
man because of racial
reasons," said Anderson,
who is commissioner o:
police in Cambridge,!
Mass. "He should have
his day in court like
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everybody else. ? , -
"We have to realize that in this society
there are also black officers who are not sensi
tive to the community, " he said.
Anderson, who is former chief. Qfj?lice in
Miami, said he is in favor of an independent
review board made up of citizens.
"It would be incumbent upon the commu
nity to look at the (findings) of the investigatory
body," he said. "Hopefully, it would be outside
the department."
record and had worked in Cleveland Homes "for
some time." He is at Forsyth Memorial Hospital
recovering from a wound to his thigh.
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killed me, too."
According to a police report,
preliminary findings indicated a
drug deal gone bad, but more infor
mation showed the ordeal occurred
because the suspects were affiliated
with the skinheads. Johnson, said
that the confrontation was not over
a bad drug deal or skinheads.
"The police didn't talk to any
body who was there," he said.
"There was no drugs involved. We
didn't even know (the men in the
Pinto) were there."
Johnson said he knew Moser
was a skinhead, but didn't think that
was the cause of the shooting
because they knew each other.
"We were hanging out together
just a few days ago," Johnson said.
"I don't know why he did it. I'm still
trying to figure it out."
Johnson was shot in the right
? thigh just above his knee. He is cur
rently at Baptist Hospital where he
is in satisfactory condition and
expected to recover.
MoseT, 20, of 1952 Lyons St.,
was charged with murder, posse ss
- - ing a deadly weapon and inflicting
serious injury, police said. Vance
Bradley Adams, 22, of 322 N./
Green St., was charged with carry
ing a concealed weapon, police
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said. Adams was released yesterday
on $1,000 bond. He came to visit
Johnson at the hospital.
"I put the word out that I
wanted to see him, so he came to
my room and we talked," Johnson
said . "He was telling me he was
sorry and that he did the best he
could to stop it."
Johnson said that Adams is not
a skinhead, but he was just hanging
out with them. The third man in the
car has not been charged in the inci
dent *
" Capt. Linda Davis, of the crim
inal investigations division, said
they don't know what the motive
for the shooting was, but the inci
dent could be viewed as being
racially motivated.
"Obviously the circumstances
would make you think there was
bad blood," she said. "It could be
inteipieted as racial, but only those
people involved would know." '
Moser is being held without
bail at the Forsyth County Jail. He
is scheduled for a preliminary hear
ing on June 25; Adams is scheduled
for hearings on July 15.
Davis said the investigation is
ongoing.
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