Dawn Blagrove spoke with ABC11 regarding a recent release of data showing that juvenile crime in Wake County is on the decline.
“It’s very encouraging that the numbers are going down,” Blagrove said. “But we need to start addressing this issue with a scalpel and not a butcher knife. We know where the issues are. We need to be very proactive in making sure that we are touching the children who we are seeing over and over again.
“The reality is that children don’t wake up with access to guns and weapons. They don’t wake up ready to just one day shoot people. That is a progression that is a result of the ignoring by the adult in those children’s lives of them crying out and crying out and crying out. That’s on us. If a child has picked up a gun, that is a societal failure. That is not a failure of a child, that is a failure of the adult in their life,” said Blagrove.