Crime
In 2002, Wilmington became what was thought to be first city in the U.S. to have its entire downtown area under surveillance.
Also in 2002, the Wilmington Police Department started a program known as jump-outs in which unmarked police vans would patrol crime-prone neighborhoods late at night, suddenly converge at street corners and temporarily detain loiterers; photographing and fingerprinting the detainees. Along with apprehending anyone with drugs or weapons, it was thought that this program would improve the police's database of fingerprints and eye-witnesses for use in future crime investigations. Some citizens protested that such a practice was a violation of civil rights.
In 2010, Wilmington had 27 homicides, which exceeded the previous record of 26 set in 2008. In 2011, community mobilization against crime was reported to be on the rise in the city.
In 2012, Parenting magazine cited Wilmington as the nation's most dangerous city on a per capita basis.
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“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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