Morgan Quitno Press has ranked Charlotte, NC the 8th most dangerous city (among cities with a population of at least 500,000.) Overall, they rank Charlotte 43rd out of 371 as most dangerous city. Last year, Charlotte was ranked the 10th most dangerous city and moved up two notches this year.CMPD does not agree with the ranking and says the research company did not consider all the variables involved in determining this number. CMPD says "These rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents."
Today, CMPD Chief Darrel Stephens held a press conference to address this issue. He said, "The extent to which we enjoy a safe community depends on everybody in the community accepting some responsibility for helping deal with the environment and the situations that help create crime."
In my opinion, it doesn't matter if Charlotte ranks #8 or #28 as most dangerous city. It is pretty obvious we have a serious crime problem here in Charlotte. It is time someone steps up to the plate and does something about it!
3 COMMENTS:
the chief says everyone in the community should accept responsibility regarding things that create crime. WTF. he SHOULD be saying that the DA and JUDGES need to get tough on crime or the entire city will become a ghetto
To Chief Darrel Stephens:
How about you "accept some responsibility for helping deal with the environment and the situations that help create crime." You know, since it's your effing JOB and all.
Did you ever stop to think that the cities that are #1-7 were subjected to the same "simplistic and/or incomplete analysis?" If we'd been voted 2nd safest city, would you be dreaming up excuses like a 3rd grader with 3 F's on his report card? You sicken me, sir. Man up, sissy. Need an example? Take a long look at Sheriff Jim. Emulate. Be a man.
To Peter Gilchrist:
What exactly do you do? That is all.
To Chief Darrel Stephens:
I accept responsibility. As a neighborhood president, I have accepted responsibility to get your officers to patrol this neighborhood and work with us, to give them information about events and problems that we have here. What I get back from our liaison is that saying we don’t have enough police protection here isn’t being positive. That’s all – we aren’t to complain, criticize, or ask for help. Just be happy for what we get and shut up and be positive.
I can be positive. Here's what I can positively tell you. While we are having problems, we regularly have officers sitting down in a movie theater parking lot talking to each other for hours on end. I can positively tell you that rather than patrolling neighborhoods where the crime exists, they cruise only the main streets when nothing is going on while waiting for the next call because it’s easier than cruising neighborhoods. Unless there is a call or they want to find someone, they are never here.
So how about YOU taking responsibility for it? Who is this "someone" you refer to? Isn’t it always "someone else"? I agree, it's time someone steps up to the plate. It's time that YOU stepped up to the plate. If crime in Charlotte isn’t the job of the police chief, then what is? If you aren't getting the resources you need, then it's up to YOU to get them or go the public and say who is standing in your way.
How about YOU getting your officers to investigate property crime? Does this city even have a CSI team anymore? I guess nobody here has been murdered so I wouldn’t have seen them as we only have B&E, assaults, weapons fired, vandalism and cars stolen here. With a nice $350K house in a low crime , I guess the only thing that pays better and is less risky than being a thief in Charlotte is being the police chief.
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