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2. Indicators
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3. Key Current
Realities
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Safety in Forsyth
County (pdf)
1. Community Vision and Definition
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COMMUNITY VISION |
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Forsyth County
residents safe where they live, work, and play. |
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SAFETY DEFINED |
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Residents will not
experience criminal activity in their home, workplace and
recreational facilities. |
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2. Indicators / Measures
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2008
Indicator |
2008
Measure |
2009
Indicator |
2009
Measure |
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Average Emergency Response |
Under Development |
Emergency Responders |
Location of Emergency Responders |
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Emergency Responders to Population Ratio |
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Adults Entering Prison |
Number of adults entering prison per 1000,000
people (rate) |
Criminal Activity |
Number of adults prison entries |
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Number of adults released from prison
(parole/probation/exit). |
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Annual Crime Index |
Reported crimes per 1000,000 people (rate) |
Reported crimes per 1000,000 people (rate). |
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Hate Crimes |
Number of Hate Crimes committed. |
Number of hate crimes. |
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Violent Acts on School Grounds |
Number of violent acts reported per 1,000
public school students (rate)
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Youth Crime |
Number of violent acts reported per 1,000
public school students (rate).
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Number of Offenses
on High School Grounds (Part I, Part II, and
Non-criminal Incidents |
Number of Offenses
on High School Grounds (Part I, Part II, and
Non-criminal Incidents).
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Number of Offenses on Middle School Grounds
(Part I, Part II Offenses, and Non-criminal incidents) |
Number of Offenses on Middle School Grounds
(Part I, Part II Offenses, and Non-criminal incidents). |
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Youth in Gangs |
Under Development |
Validated gang member under 17 years of age. |
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Juvenile Delinquency |
Number of youth ages 6-16 adjudicated
(convicted) of crimes for every 1,000 youth |
Number of youth ages 6-16 adjudicated
(convicted) of crimes for every 1,000 youth. |
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Domestic Violence |
Under Development |
Domestic Violence |
Domestic violence incidents |
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Elderly and Disabled Adults who are Maltreated |
Under Development |
Older Adult Maltreatment |
Adult Protective Services (APS) referred and
substantiated cases. |
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Fraud against Older Adults. |
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Children who are Maltreated |
Number of children found substantiated or in
need of services divided by the total population of 0-18 years
of age. |
Child Maltreatment |
Number of children referred and findings. |
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Leading Causes of Traffic Deaths. |
MOVED TO
HEALTH SECTION. |
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33.
Key Current Realities Together
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Emergency
Response |
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§ All
residents of Forsyth
County reside within the standard travel time from fire and Emergency Medical
Services station locations set by the National Fire Protection
Association.
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Forsyth
Emergency Management Services currently employees 153
responders.
§ Forsyth
County Fire Department counts with 800 personnel (includes
administrators, volunteer fire fighters and paid
firefighters).
§ At
the current time, the Kernersville Police Department,
Winston-Salem Police Department, and the Forsyth County
Sherrif’s Office rates of 1.8, 1.47 and 0.7 per 1,000
population served, respectively. |
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Criminal
Activity |
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§ The
Index Crime (Violent or Property crimes) rate in Forsyth
County for 2007–2008 was 60.3% which is higher than the rate for
North Carolina.
The Index Crime
rate in Forsyth County has increased
by 9% between 2007 and 2008, but has decreased by 14% since
1999. Index crimes in North Carolina decreased by 2.2%
between 2007 and 2008.
§ Violent
crimes in North Carolina decreased by 1.3% between 2007 and
2008, but robbery has increased by 2.2%. Violent crimes such
as homicides, aggravated assault, robbery and forcible rape
accounted for 11.5% of all index crimes in Forsyth
County in 2008. Property crimes such as burglary, larceny, motor vehicle
theft and arson accounted for 88.5% of index crimes in
Forsyth County and 89.6% of
index crimes in North Carolina.
§ In
2007, there were no confirmed hate crimes in Forsyth
County, compared to 3 for Guilford
County and 369 for the entire state of
North Carolina.
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Youth Crime |
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§ There
were 498 verified crimes in all Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
Schools for the 2007-2008 school year. This is up from 492
violent acts in the 2006-2007 school year and 209 in the 2001-
2002 school year.
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Forsyth County, there were 9.8 criminal acts per 1,000 students in Forsyth County
Schools.
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rate for North Carolina was 7.9 acts per 1,000 students.
However, only 3.8% of all school crimes were classified as
violent. |
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§ The
Forsyth County rate represents a 58.9% increase from the 2005-2006 school year.
§ Among
Forsyth County schools for the 2007-2008 school year, there were 2 assaults resulting
in serious injury, 3 assaults involving a weapon, 9
possessions of a firearm, 5 bomb threats, 296 possessions of a
controlled substance and 118 possessions of a weapon.
§ Carver
High School had a school crime rate of 32.2 acts per 1,000
students. North Forsyth High School had a rate of 10.6
criminal acts per 1,000 students. |
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Domestic
Violence |
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§ In
2008, a total of 7,447 domestic violence reports were recorded
for Forsyth County law enforcement agencies.
§ There
were 1,537 persons arrested or cited for a domestic violence
incident recorded by law enforcement agencies.
§ There
were 1,077 domestic violence incidents recorded in which at
least one child 12 or younger was present. |
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Older
Adult Maltreatment |
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§ From
2006-2007 to 2007-2008, there was a 21.1% decrease in
referrals, but an increase of 116.7% confirmed cases of older
adult maltreatment.
§ In
Forsyth County, there were 65 confirmed cases of older adult
maltreatment in 2007-2008. Applying the well-established
national estimate that 84% incidents are not reported to Adult
Protective Services or authorities, suggests that there was
likely 120 cases of older maltreatment in the 2007-2008
reporting year.
§ There
was a 2% increase from 2007-2008 to 2008-2009, up from 102 to
104, of financial fraud cases reported to Senior Financial
Services (Consumer Credit Counseling of Forsyth, Inc.) for
residents 60+ years of age. |
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Child
Maltreatment |
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§ For
the past five years, Forsyth
County’s referrals for child maltreatment represent approximately 4% of
North Carolina’s yearly
referrals.
§ The
percentage of accepted referrals/allegations of child
maltreatment increased by 9.5% from the 2006-2007 to the
2007-2008 Fiscal Years. The partial year figure for 2008-2009
(last updated in October 2009) represents a decrease of 12.7%
from the previous year.
§ There
was a 25% increases in the number of child maltreatment cases
found to involve abuse and neglect from 2006-2007 (N=16) and
2007-2008 (N=20). There was also an increase of 35% from
2007-2008 to the partial year 2008-2009.
§ There
was no change in the number of child maltreatment cases (N=79)
found to involve neglect for 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.
§ There
were few child maltreatment cases where the decision was to
have the child removed from the parent/guardian (home)
2006-2007 (N=3) and 2007-2008 (N=2).
§ The
percentage of allegations that were found to be
unsubstantiated increased by 53.3% from 2006-2007 to
2007-2008.
§ The
number of cases where services (e.g., education, health,
housing, and mental health services) where “needed” was
considerably more in the 2008-2009 partial year (N=125) than
the two previous years combined (N=107).
§ The
number of cases where services were “recommended” increased by
47.1% from 2006-2007 (N=592) to 2007-2008 (N=871).
§ The
top three community sources of referrals for allegations of
child maltreatment for the past three years (inclusive of the
partial 2008-2009 year) where in personnel from the juvenile
justice, educational and human services sectors. |
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