While Charlotte and the nation continued to report falling violent crime in 2010, a pocket of older neighborhoods northwest of uptown had an unsettling spike in killings.
Nearly a third of the 59 homicides in Charlotte-Mecklenburg last year happened in a cluster of poor and working-class neighborhoods that are battling drug traffic, gun violence and gangs.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/03/1949622/many-10-slayings-were-in-one-area.html#ixzz19ytUqsou
There is also a map showing locations and details of these crimes.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Charlotte Observer: Homicide Cluster Northwest of Uptown
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