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City Manager's Public Safety Recommendations
On Friday, Charlotte City Manager Curt Walton sent City Council members a memo with several recommendations addressing the rising crime problem in Charlotte. (Read Full Memo) The information will be presented to the City Council in further detail during the City Council Meeting on Monday night.
The recommendations were developed over the last several weeks- both as part of the City budget process and to provide a more immediate response to crime issues, which include:
- Expanding the number of electronic monitoring devices for repeat offenders.
- Providing funding for technology improvements in the District Attorney’s Office and the Trial Court Administrator’s Office.
- Providing additional staffing to expand the capacity of the District Attorney’s Office.
- Expanding resources in the CMPD Crime Lab to address firearms identification workload, the backlog of latent fingerprints and the backlog of DNA analysis.
- Expanding the number of telecommunicators in the 911 Communications Center.
- Developing options such as a property crimes court and other Kimme Report recommendations to determine the feasibility and impact of alternative methods of expediting the prosecution of property crimes.
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Charlotte has already sunk to a new low, and seems weak. Its profile now is very similar to South American cities such as Lima, Peru or Maracaibo, Venezuela... what a joke...world class city, yeah right...
all talk but no one walks the walk...Stop wasting time talking while the problem gets worse. DO SOMETHING!
Oh and a side note, ALL NC STATE REP'S do not support the H.R. 676: United States National Health Insurance Act. This would provide care for EVERYONE in the United States! Isn't it sad Cuba has united health care, but not US. Use your vote to kick them out!
Hugochavezwatch said: Charlotte has already sunk to a new low, and seems weak. Its profile now is very similar to South American cities such as Lima, Peru or Maracaibo, Venezuela... what a joke...world class city, yeah right..."
Prefect analogue! A friend of mine grew up in Lima, Peru as the daughter of a surgeon. Her family led what some would consider a privileged life. However, its a life not unfamiliar to many in south charlotte, with one big exception. They had a twelve foot concrete wall built around the perimeter of their property. It was topped with broken glass and razor wire.
Their own private armed guards patrolled the wall day and night to keep thugs out. Are we coming to this? Like living as the remaining whites do now in South Africa, with energized electric fences and private security 24/7?
If more of the thugs thought they might get shot by a prepared homeowner trained in the use of deadly force, fewer of these super predators would be free to be urban terrorists.
Forget about al-Quaeda, terrorists are much closer to home! Ten separate felony arrests in less than 36 months should warrant the death penalty.
Electronic monitoring devices shouldn't be the answer to repeat offenders committing violent crimes. What are you saying to them, you can go live comfortably in your own home after attempting to murder someone???? Again???
Those bracelets are for drug offenses and victimless crimes.
the elected officials better take a hard line on crime or we will be the next Detroit, Michigan! Ankle bracelets are not enough.
They are trying to find the cheapest way to put a band aid on the issue/problem.
MEETING Monday Night... I am going
We HAVE to speak out and do something. where the hell is out tax money going to? Their 'government issue' car... pens and paper, useless man hours for meetings that accomplish nothing... what the hell.
We need to gather, go there and demand to see what OUR tax money is being spent on. ACCOUNTABILITY. Stop the wasting of the money. Make them work with what they NEED not what they WANT!!!
I interviewed for a job last year with the DAs office; while talking to her I found out that their office is so lacking in money and manpower that they are still using type writers/word processors to process documents.
How utterly wrong is that in a city of this size, marketed to be "world class"? WAKE UP CHARLOTTE POLITICO!
Electronic monitoring doesn't stop crime in a system where there are no consequences and not enough people to actually MONITOR the felons.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department needs a Chief that can totally reorganize the current structure. There has to be away we can put more officers on the streets. This can be done with the current manpower and restructure. I would start by removing all School Resource Officers. Charlotte School Police can handle schools on a rotating basis.
Its a total breakdown in society, and it is happening all over...just go to topix.com and type in home invasion....god help charlotte...as a matter of fact I feel safer in Lima or Maracaibo..tgnce
12AM POST Why don't you go to Cuba for your health care. I pay for my own why should I pay for yours.
What happen to Jails? If there is no penalty, there is no fear of getting locked up. You got to remember, these thugs prey on the weak and helpless. When they go to jail, they often become the prey cause they ain't as tough without a gun as they are with one. There is only two fears a thug has. One is the moment the cop arrest them, cause they don't know what the cop is gonna do. The second is when they go to jail, cause they don't know what BUBBA is gonna do, and BUBBA may be bigger, stronger, tougher than he/she is. Wake up Charlotte. Put em away where they cannot hurt anyone! PRISON
If the electronic collars worked like the one I put on my dog, but say lethally stronger, I would say good money spent.
Kimme report lets em off with a ticket that won't get paid...sort of what we are doing right now...you can see how well that worked..
too many in prison? WHAT A JOKE. nobody gets prison until they actually cross the line and kill somebody, or rob the wrong person. The problem is NOBODY goes to prison (nearly true when you read the rap sheets same crime over and over and over again), there is no deterence in that policy.
Its gaulling that people kicking your door in, whether your home or not, are considered committing a "property crime"...no biggy, its not like REAL crime that needs jail...
Only certain things will make a change:
Police actually patrolling the neighborhoods instead setting speed traps. The only cops I see in my neighborhood are ones going to crime scene..and I live in what two years ago was neighborhood without any crime EVER.
Judges actually setting a bond realistic to the crime...should this thug be able to go back on the streets..3, 4, 6, 10 times making low bond everytime?
DA actually prosecuting crimes..like car burlary..somewhere I once believed it was a crime...far far away.
Jails that are built for criminals, and put them there.
If illegals are taking up too much room for ICE, the answer is not releasing them, or refusing the criminals because we don't have space..make space for the illegals by converting some of those empty bigbox stores on Independence and turn them into an Arpio type holding facility for low risk cadidates..better than collars, and Arpio proved you can do it on a couple of bucks a day.
Lastly, when everyone of these sensible suggestions are not enacted..get a big dog, a big gun and training on how to use both....because the government ain't comin to help you, they already left you behind to the thugs. And so has your town newspaper.
In the 1970's NYC was famous for its turnstile justice, just like we have here in Charlotte today. What followed was the crack epidemic of the 80's where the cities homicide rate hit 2500 for the year. This is the future of our city if people refuse to admit AND enact tough crime fighting tactics. And I DO NOT MEAN social programs, save that BS for the classrooms
As a victim of a recent crime, I thought the law was on my side. Come to find out the law is on my side but thr DA's office is on the criminals side. I was assualted while walking my dogs by an intoxicated man who attacked me because i wouldny give him a cigarette. I went to court several times only to be told the case was being continued. Then I go to court for the 4th time and I am told by the DA that they are dropping the charges because the judge didnt want to try the case. I didnt want to drop the charges but wes forced to by the da. I went home and looked up this guy on this web site and he had been aressted and charged with assualt 2 times before and those charges were also dropped. So now we have a man with 3 assualt charges and np convictions so its like he got away with it 3 times prior. No wonder people dont like to press charges in Mecklenburg County it wastes the police time your tima and the taxpayers money
That means the assault perp has about 15 times more to go before he gets prosecuted and then gets a suspended sentence...
I also bet this does not count as violent crime so the social worker chief of police can happily report our violent crime rate is down.
I am sorry to say this, nobody deserves to be a victim, but...you need a much bigger dog, and perhaps a tazor (they are cheaper than wasting your time downtown)....because the government ain't comin to help you.
And the Judge, you will have that opportunity to vote him out of office. tell us his name, we can join you.
This is what happens when you vote for liberals, folks. And by "liberal" I mean any Democrat not named Jim Pendergraph, as well as many of the "moderate Republicans."
They make excuses for criminals and believe that 'being nice' to them will somehow turn them into nicer, law-abiding people. They do not take the view that the purpose of the law is to protect society from these thugs.
What is sad is that many of the people who marched on the City Council this week likely live under the delusion that returning people like Anthony Foxx as their representative will ever get anything accomplished.
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I was a recent victim of an armed robbery and was shot kicking the robber's ass and luckily i'm alive! But the real conclusion will not be evident for awhile, but we got the motherfucker! He won't be out for at least 15 or so & i will be there at every hearing making a deterrent. I will begin an organization soon that will patrol the neighborhoods at night. I will be meeting with the council for the following "suggestions":
1. lighting, lighting, & more lighting
2. police kiosks & 10-man bike patrols around bar sectors like plaza/midwood, dilworth, & noda
3. our organization patrolling streets & escorting people to their cars and destinations as a deterrent.
Let's hope our justice system does work...
I was a recent victim of an armed robbery and was shot kicking the robber's ass and luckily i'm alive! But the real conclusion will not be evident for awhile, but we got the motherfucker! He won't be out for at least 15 or so & i will be there at every hearing making a deterrent. I will begin an organization soon that will patrol the neighborhoods at night. I will be meeting with the council for the following "suggestions":
1. lighting, lighting, & more lighting
2. police kiosks & 10-man bike patrols around bar sectors like plaza/midwood, dilworth, & noda
3. our organization patrolling streets & escorting people to their cars and destinations as a deterrent.
Let's hope our justice system does work...
The Charlotte Uptown Bunch (i.e., the Chamber of Commerce and City Council) has sold the public the idea that our crime problem is a result of underfunding from Raleigh. The truth is that if Charlotte spent its money on core needs like public safety, instead of new arenas, museums and trains, we would have plenty of money to fund our courts and law enforcement.
We need elected officials who govern. Our current leaders from McCrory on down are nothing more than PR professionals selling an image to the outside world. Denial only works for so long.
CiC has helped to force the politicians to admit what they denied for so long; that there is violent crime all over this city, including Providence Country Club, Ballantyne, Myers Park, Plaza-Midwood and Dilworth.
Wow...I am planning to move to Charlotte, partly because the crime rate isn't that bad compared with other cities. I think the growth and the amount of people will give some who have been living here a long time the impression that things are out of hand. I've read alot about robberies but here at least they let you live after they rob you in most cases. Try DC out for size and thats our nation's capital. Looking at the demographic and appearance of the offenders these are the same individuals that society turns its back on. These are the guys who you don't give an opportunity to, only to see them take what they feel is theirs. Its a viscous cycle, a lack of economic development in certain demographics will drive crime and fuel the "need" for it.
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