{"id":642305,"date":"2021-08-13T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=642305"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:51:27","slug":"ongoing-violent-issues-person-shot-10-times-in-tourist-nc-city-that-defunded-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ongoing-violent-issues-person-shot-10-times-in-tourist-nc-city-that-defunded-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ongoing Violent Issues\u2019: Person Shot 10 Times In Tourist NC City That Defunded Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fongoing-violent-issues-person-shot-10-times-in-tourist-nc-city-that-defunded-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=642305&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-513709779-e1628886682847.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Police in Asheville, North Carolina, are asking for help to find the suspect who left someone hospitalized and in critical condition after shooting them 10 times on a porch Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are considering the act a continuation of the rising incidents of violent crime in the months since the city cut the police budget, according to local outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/asheville-victim-shot-10-times-shiloh-road-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WLOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating it and do believe it\u2019s possibly related to ongoing violent issues in the city of Asheville, yes,\u201d Detective Sergeant John Zeigler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsheville police say 17 shell casings from three different guns were found at the scene,\u201d WLOS further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/staffing-crisis-shrinking-police-force-will-no-longer-respond-to-some-crimes-in-liberal-nc-city-that-cut-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe victim was taken to the hospital, where police say they\u2019re in critical but stable condition.&nbsp;Detectives have identified a person of interest in this case but still need your help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rising rate of crime in Asheville has landed the city of approximately 90,000 people in the top 10% most violent cities in America, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/247wallst.com\/city\/why-asheville-north-carolina-is-among-americas-most-dangerous-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBI crime data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Asheville, North Carolina, violent crime is more than twice as common as it is nationwide. In 2019, the most recent year of available data, there were a total of 695 violent crimes reported in the city \u2014 or 742 for every 100,000 people,\u201d according 24\/7 Wall St., an independent financial news and opinion website.<\/p>\n<p>Amid calls from far-left activists to defund APD by half following the death of George Floyd, the Asheville City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/asheville-north-carolina-archive-6af6b0c898b007a68961cf4f8b0fb39e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted<\/a> 5-2 last September to cut their budget by 3%.<\/p>\n<p>The Asheville Police Department (APD) made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9655717\/Asheville-North-Carolina-police-WONT-respond-person-911-calls-theft-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">international headlines<\/a> in June when they released a list of crimes to which their force was no longer able to respond because of the exodus of officers.&nbsp;As The Daily Wire reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"37.621082621083\">\n<p><em>In a Wednesday press release, the APD explained they have lost 84 officers since January 1, 2020, which is a devastating number for a force that employs just <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteKaliner\/status\/1400408225531506688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">219 people<\/a>. Response times even to crimes such as homicides have increased three minutes during peak hours, APD Chief David Zack recently said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere will be things that we simply cannot get to,\u201d Zack told the&nbsp;Asheville City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re talking it\u2019s taking us almost three minutes longer to get to those very serious calls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur detective unit right now is completely gassed out with the volume of serious investigations that they have to address. And we will have to triage those. Those officers are having to work extremely long hours,\u201d Zack also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/response-times-go-up-as-staffing-crisis-hampers-asheville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSince January 1, 2021, the Asheville Police Department has responded to 348 calls for service reporting gunshots or a person shot. In addition, 27 people have been shot in Asheville during the same time period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>David Rhode, a resident of downtown Asheville, told WLOS he is not surprised at the news, given how the APD have been treated during the past year. \u201cWhen it comes to the crimes that are no longer being responded to, what does the city of Asheville expect when you\u2019ve created an environment that is not conducive to human resources?\u201d he said. \u201cWould you want to be in a job that didn\u2019t appreciate you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Asheville, North Carolina, are asking for help to find the suspect who left someone hospitalized and in critical condition after shooting them 10 times on a porch Wednesday.Investigators &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}