A tourist city in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains is now seeing record homicide numbers and other crimes, thanks to anti-police sentiment brought on by newly elected Democratic Party leaders, a former sheriff is claiming.
"Even though we were making good strides in the community and reducing the crime rate, we still saw ourselves coming in as a negative in the community and in the eyes of some of the leftist politicians that were … getting elected at that time," former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan toldThe sheriff, who is a former Democrat, said deputies are quitting the force because of a negative environment.
"So, when officers have to work under … those conditions, when they're out there really serving the community well, and we see high dismissal rate with the district attorney, low cash bail or no bail for these folks who are just being turned back loose into the community, it becomes very frustrating for the officers," Duncan said.
Citizens are also grappling with an increased homeless population and have seen a Mexican drug cartel move into the area, contributing to the crime problem. The district attorney frequently dismisses cases against homeless suspects, providing no deterrent to future criminal activity, Duncan said. "As our district attorney said, it's not against the law to be homeless, but it is against the law to commit those crimes and really kind of put a damper on business and make it hard on your town," Duncan said.
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