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Critics of police spending protested in front of the Winston-Salem City Hall during Mondays online meeting of the city council, and said during the public comment period that they plan to keep pressing the council to redirect police spending. Some 15 to 20 people, according to an organizer, appeared in front of City Hall with a big Hate Out of Winston banner and signs supporting increased spending for mental health and city programs that tackle the problems of young people and ex-offenders. Bec...

Critics of police spending protested in front of the Winston-Salem City Hall during Mondays online meeting of the city council, and said during the public comment period that they plan to keep pressing the council to redirect police spending. Some 15 to 20 people, according to an organizer, appeared in front of City Hall with a big Hate Out of Winston banner and signs supporting increased spending for mental health and city programs that tackle the problems of young people and ex-offenders. Bec...

View the Winston-Salem Journal for Wednesday, February17, 2021

A bill that would penalize cities and counties for reducing appropriations to law enforcement agencies is drawing criticism from groups that want less police spending, praise from a law-enforcement officers group and skepticism from local officials worried about legislative interference in local affairs. The bill, filed Monday in the N.C. Senate, would reduce revenues to local governments that cut spending on law enforcement by certain amounts.  Called the Police Funding Protection Act, the ...

Winston-Salem police officials say the interval between the time a gun is fired and when the police find out about it can spell the difference between life and death for

Newly-elected Winston-Salem City Council Member Kevin Mundy has issued a video apology for comments he made asking members of groups that have advocated for reduced police spending to tone down their remarks to the city council. Mundy, a Democrat, participated in a Zoom meeting on Thursday with three members of the group Forsyth County Police Accountability and Reallocation Coalition. In the meeting, Mundy and members of the group discussed demands that the city move money away from policing...

Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Year’s Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisgender privilege, just the acknowledgment of this truth is something that a lot of those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, differently-abled, and of a different gender identity don’t have ...