Greensboro launches 100 Days of Peace with Barber Park event
Barber Park will host a free June 5 kickoff for Greensboro's 100 Days of Peace as city leaders promise an update on their five-year safety plan.
Greensboro is turning Barber Park into a public checkpoint for violence reduction. The city’s Community Safety Department will host Peace on Purpose on Friday, June 5, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Barber Park Amphitheater, 1500 Barber Park Dr., as the fourth annual event kicks off the 100 Days of Peace campaign.
The gathering is free and built as more than a neighborhood celebration. City staff will update residents on the Comprehensive Community Safety Plan, giving Greensboro a chance to show whether its public-safety strategy is producing more than civic messaging. The real test is whether the city can point to measurable change in the neighborhoods most affected by shootings, homicides and repeated crisis calls tied to mental health, substance use and homelessness.
Greensboro launched the Community Safety Plan in June 2025 as a five-year effort focused on violence prevention, intervention and interruption. The plan rests on three Pillars of Peace: Co-Production, Opportunity, Access and Connections, and Holistic Safety. City leaders say the Community Safety Department serves as a hub for community partners to co-create public safety solutions, using prevention initiatives, crisis intervention services and long-term, intensive case management for people whose needs have repeatedly brought them into contact with law enforcement.
The department’s work now reaches beyond policing through programs such as GSO HOME, Housing First Plus and the Behavioral Health Response Team. That broader approach matters in a city that recorded 74 homicides in 2023, an all-time high, along with 244 non-fatal shootings. Homicides fell to 43 in 2024, but Greensboro said gun violence remained a concern in early 2025.
City officials have tied Peace on Purpose to National Gun Violence Awareness Month since the first event in June 2023, when the Community Safety Plan got its start. Earlier city materials also linked the campaign to a pledge drive that aimed for 10,000 signed pledge cards by September 23, 2023. This year’s event extends that effort into a 100 Days of Peace campaign, with multiple events planned across Greensboro. At Barber Park, the question will be whether the city can turn a visible gathering into a visible drop in violence.
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