12-THE CAROLINA TIMES—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1993
HERBERT CARTER, director of Operation Breakthrough, pledges support to NECD program.
North/East Central Durham
Initiative To Offer Security
POLICE CHIEF JACKIE McNEIL offers prayer at NECD Partners Against Crime.
By Ray Trent
An inilialivc lo create a more
secure living environment was
launched in August 1993 with a
workshop held at Greater St. Paul
N.C. Doctors
Concerned
Clinton Plan
Lacks
Details
By Estes Thompson
Associated Press
Doctors foci loft out of planning
the Clinton health care reforms and
worry that it could hurt a
physician’s relationship with
patients, the leader of North
Carolina’s doctors said Tuesday.
"It seems lo me we have been
saying to tire state Legislature and
the Clinton health planning team,
please let us be a part of the
process," said Dr. Mac Mauney,
president of the North Carolina
Medical Society.
"Their altitude seems to be that
we can’t let the fox in the
licnhousc. The doctors I hear
talking about this issue don’t like
being portrayed this way. ...Nobody
.scorns lo think we have anything
more llian a self-interest in this."
The medical society has more than
8,000 of the state’s 14,000
practicing doctors as members. The
society and its national counterpart,
tlic American Medical Association,
have been pushing for health care
reform more than three years,
Mauney said in a telephone
interview from Asheville.
"We all believe it’s necessary,"
he. .said. "Whenever we raise a
cincslion, we are portrayed as being
naysayers.” Doctors and others say
tlic Clinton plan lacks specifics.
"In each section, more questions
arc raised than answers given," said
Professor Gordon H. DcFriese,
director of the Shop Center for
Health Services Research at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Months ago, people expected the
Clinton announcement lo be the
oiillinc of legislation. But that
won’t he the case when the
president presents his plan to
Congress Wednesday night,
DcFriese said.
"This is a discussion outlining
what the issues arc as the
administration secs them," he said.
"For example, there will be a
suggestion lliat employers ought lo
be mandated in playing a role, but
the specifics aren’t there." DcFriese
has testified before congressional
committees and met with the
Clinton planners on health care
issues. He is head of the
Washington-based Parmership for
Prevention, a nonprofit coalition
ituu promotes the importance of
preventive medicine to head off
illness.
"I have been assured there is a
genuine, sincere interest on the part
of tlic administration in preventive
medicine," but ideas for prevention
that are known don’t include
obvious things such as cancer
screening, he said.
"There’s more promise here than
there is actual concrete detail," he
said. "I don’t want it lo sound like
we’re negative because this
president has managed lo get this
on everybody’s list of top
discussion items. ...People in this
country should be encouraged to
think positively about this."
Church in Durham. The morning groups.
Ipng session brought together The overall plan is to target a
members of city and county section of Durham called
government, the Durham Police North/East Central Durham
Department and various citizen
roughly a 96-block area containing-,
1,884 housing units and 4,272
residents.
Police Chief Jackie McNeil has
identified East Central Durham as
an area devastated, by crime and
conditions that breed drugs and
crimes of violence.
Data indicate that the population
in the area has a disproportionate
share of the city’s youth,
households headed by a female,
low income households,
unemployment and low education
achievement. All of these factors
point to the need for intervention
beyond simple law enforcement.
The new program will utilize the
"Weed and Seed" concept in which
intense coverage by the police
CATT team will weed out the
crime element; other community
agencies will act immediately to
alleviate the causal factors and
enhance the areas of housing,
employment, street maintenance
and improvement, sports and
recreational programs, fire
prevention in a surge to eliminate
the problems that cause crime and
hopelessness.
Funding is already included in the
1993-94 budget which would allow
the Police Department, Fire
Department, Transportation,
Employment and Training and
Planning Department to conduct
the activities indicated in the
initiative.
Further progress and community
meetings (time and place to be
announced) will follow.
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