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your support. Do you remember now I'm maybe dating myself
here ew, but also I'm like I'm old enough to
remember when we were told in the wake of do
you remember the Ukrainian refugee Her name was Arina Zarutska
and she was murdered on the Charlotte light rail train
and the reaction the response we got was, you know,
thoughts and prayers. But then there was this, uh, this
narrative about how actually crime is down. Remember that I
remember that, Like, again, I may be dating myself, but
there was It's not just in Charlotte where this narrative
was advanced. It was in a lot of different blue cities,
you know. In response to President Donald Trump criticizing these
Democrat controlled areas, and the crime that has been allowed
to just get out of control. And we kept hearing, actually,
the crime is down, violent crime is down. And then
of course we found out like pretty quickly thereafter that
they were juice in the stats, you know, they like,
particularly in Washington, d C. There were a couple of
whistleblowers that said, yeah, actually, actually there there coding violent
crime as lesser crime in order to juice the stats
and make the stats look better than they actually are. Now,
I have no evidence that occurred in Charlotte. I'm not
saying that. I'm just saying that in Charlotte we were
being told that actually crime is down, and that's why
I was kind of surprised. And I've had it in
the stack of stuff for a couple of days now,
several reports from Queen City News WBTV, the Charlotte Observer,
WSOCTV about this this new plan they have to introduce
this initiative. Actually they're they're doing one new initiative, but
then they were also resuscitating an old initiative that they
allowed to I guess expire, but they're going to bring
it back now to to step up police presence in
uptown Charlotte don't all downtown and South End for some reason.
I'm not really sure why, because actually violent crime is down, right,
crime is down, So therefore, why would you need to
increase police presence in uptown and in South End? So
I thought that was kind of odd, you know, And
I have the stories. I'll give you some of the
highlights here. For example, this is wbtv's report by Michael Warwick.
The Charlotte Meckelberg Police Department introduced a new initiative Wednesday
designed to reduce criminal activity uptown and help people feel safer.
Remember this the perception of safety once again, maybe dating myself,
but after the murder of Arena Zarutska, there was this
response coming from city leadership and a lot of Democrats
that was really echoed throughout the country, which is that
if you know, people don't feel safe, then they're not safe, right,
So you have to kind of work on this perception.
People have this misperception that they're not actually safe because remember,
actually the crime is down, okay, so they want to,
I guess, put a bunch of cops out on the
streets in order to make people perceive that they're safer
because they actually are safer. They just don't perceive themselves
to be safer. So we're going to put a bunch
of law enforcement out there to reinforce the perception, to
kind of break through that misperception, if you will. Okay,
this was Wednesday, and today we now see the crime
stats from uptown Charlotte and actually crime is up. Actually,
actually crime is up. Here's wbt's Brett Jensen. You can
catch his show here on WBT from six until seven. Sorry,
I'm still trying to remember because they redid the the
lineups and stuff. So Brett Jensen is on six to
seven Breaking with Brett Jensen, and he tweeted this out
or he xed it out. I guess. Charlotte leaders and
CMPD keeps saying the perception is that Charlotte isn't safe
and crime is up, but in reality, crime in uptown
is through the roof. Look at the crime stats for
the first three quarters of twenty twenty five compared to
the same time period in twenty twenty four, and murder
is up two hundred percent. Come on, now, that's just
a perceptions. It's not no, it is it's up. Yeah,
it is up two hundred percent. Now granted, these are small,
you know numbers. For example, in twenty twenty four, for
the period that ran from you know, January first through October,
there were three murders. Okay, last year. This year, same
time frame January to October, it's now nine murders, so
triple the number of murders. That is a difference of six.
That is a two hundred percent increase. Forcible rape up
from ten to eleven. And again this is just uptown
and south end of the Central Division. Armed robbery commercial
went from three up to four. Armed robbery personal some
good news that actually declined. Armed robbery declined, going from
twenty eight to twenty two. Strong Arm robbery commercial went
from seven to fifteen. Strong Arm robbery personal went up
from twenty six to thirty one. Assault Aggravated assault with
a knife went from twenty two to thirty five. Aggravated
assault with a gun went from sixty four to seventy six.
Aggravated assault other good news that dropped twenty two down
to seventeen. Decline of five aggravated assault. Physical force stayed
the same. Nine. Burglary breaking and entering commercial that went
down by eighteen cases one thirty five down to one. Seventeen.
Residential burglary B and E dropped also eighteen, went from
sixty seven down to forty nine. Residential storage units went
from three to two. Motor vehicle theft that went up,
so that went up to forty one to two fifty three.
Two hundred and fifty three vehicles stolen over the course
of January and February March April May, nine months. It
seems like a lot. It's like almost one a day,
you know. Pocket picking basically the same. It went up
by one. There were sixty five cases of that per
Snatchings went from eleven to six. Shoplifting though, that went
up to seventy one, up to three sixteen, three hundred
and sixteen cases. That's more than one a day. One
shoplifting call a day. Theft from building is up, theft
from coin operated machine is up, but that's like one.
It went from zero to one. Theft from motor vehicle
went up, theft of motor vehicle parts up. All other
thefts went down from six hundred ninety seven to six
hundred and forty. Here's some good news. Arson dropped by
four cases, went from eight to four. Forcible sodomy went
down from five cases down to two, but sexual assault
with an object went up from zero to two. Hacking
went up cases or two six cases, human trafficking, involuntary
servitude we had a case of that, but last year
we didn't have any identity. Theft went up, forcible fondling
went up, kidnapping that went down by one case, went
from five to four. So that's good. Simple assault up
by thirty five cases. So this is just perception. All
of these increases that I just ran through, simply perception people. Okay, Well,
actually it's also actual, Okay, so it is. So in
other words, people's perception of crime in Charlotte was true, right,
it's true. And when people in Charlotte are saying they
don't feel safe, and the city leaders are trotting out
crime stats through the first half of the year through July,
which of course doesn't include July and August, which are
usually high crime because kids are out of school, right,
the utes running the streets, roaming around, stealing stuff, assaulting
each other, getting into some gun play, you know, as
kids do. So you have the summertime crime spike. So
when they're running around citing the crime stats and oh
they're going down. Actually crime is going down. Yeah, Actually
it was going up because you guys were looking at
stats and using stats that did not include the more
violent months. Now, maybe it peters out, maybe it sort
of levels off or declines again or something. We shall see.
But the point here that I'm trying to make is
that when people when the residents of Charlotte are going down,
because I watched the city council meetings and they're going
down there and they're telling the city leaders that we
are not feeling safe. Things are not cool here, things
are not secure. They're talking about their experiences on the
transit system, and the city leadership's response is okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're going to do some stuff because we've got this
referendus that we want people to pass, you know, so
we're totally going to do some security stuff. But actually
crime is down. Yeah, Actually it wasn't. It actually was not,
and people's perception was accurate.
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piece about this new initiative to put more officers uptown Charlotte.
It's called the Crown Initiative. And I have here someplace
what this thing stands here it is Center Cities Restoration
of Order, Wellness and Nonviolence. Center Cities Restoration of Order
wellness and nonviolence. It's called CROWN. I like the acronym. However,
should it be c crown because its center city no right,
center city restoration of and honestly like, if you're going
to use the of in the end, it would be
like CCR O W A N or crew an. But
that doesn't sound nearly as cool as crown anyway. So
the Crown initiative, it's gonna put more officers uptown who
will more strictly enforce crimes, which is the tell that
is that is quite the tell, right, These laws already exist,
they are on the books, but now CMPD is going
to more strictly enforce crimes like aggressive panhandling, disorderly conduct,
public intoxication, as well as, according to qcityw Queen Cityews,
QC news dot Com, unpermitted street vending. So I'm gonna
have to find something else to do or another place
to locate my shop the announcement, right, Oh real quick,
just to circle back to sacking style on that the
fact that these laws are already on the books and
that CMPD was not quote strictly enforcing them, right, This
is what people like me people on quote the right
tough on crime people, whatever you want to call them.
This is what we have been pointing to. The laws exist,
but there has obviously been a directive, an order, a
general millieu, whatever it may be. There is a reason
why officers have not been strictly enforcing these crimes. Do
they all decide not to do it all at once?
Like did they all get together, like I don't know,
and before or after one of the daily briefings or something,
maybe they're getting their gear on in the locker rooms
and they're like, hey, you know what, let's not strictly
enforce these crimes anymore. No, of course not. There's obviously
been some sort of Again, I don't know if it's
a directive, a suggestion, if it's an order, or if
it's a realignment or maybe a focus area or something
like that. And I know this occurs from police officers
who have told me, for example, and sometimes it's overt
and explicit, right, Like do you remember a couple of
years ago. Y'all may have heard of this down in
Charlotte here, but I was working up in Asheville at
the time when a police officer got into a fisticuffs
with a guy who was simply jaywalking across the street.
And the guy's name was Johnny Rush, and the Ashville
police officer told him, you know, don't jaywalk. There's a
crosswalk right here, like ten feet away from you, you know,
stick to the crosswalk. And then Johnny Rush goes into
the store, says okay, okay, fine, goes into the store,
makes a purchase, leaves the store middle of the night,
and crosses a four lane road again jaywalking, at which
point they go over to give him a ticket. He
doesn't want a ticket. I don't want this ticket, and
he begins to run away. He begins to fight the cops.
The cops fight back, and that's when and then there's,
you know, the body cam footage comes out and oh
my gosh, it's our own, you know, George Floyd. So
that was actually nobody ever reported this, And whenever I
talked about the case, I always tried to make mention
of the fact that the reason why the cop was
enforcing the jaywalking was because that's what the city told
him to do, the City of Ashville told the police
to focus on pedestrian safety, to start going after the jaywalkers.
You know, why they had been embarrassed the city was
embarrassed by a ranking of the least pedestrian safe cities
and they made some top ten list of the worst
cities to walk around in. And the downtown area in
Asheville is actually pretty safe. I mean, if you've ever
been there, you know, it's a lot of sidewalks and
shops and stuff. It's a you know, it's an old downtown.
But outside of the that you know, business district, downtown
and they do call it downtown up there. Outside there,
like there are not a lot of sidewalks. There's not
even like shoulders on the side of the road. It's
just like a cliff that drops off the side of
the road because it's the mountains. And so people walking
around on those roads at night, they're twisty and curvy
and cars don't see, you know, motorists don't see them,
and they hit people. And so the city was like,
we're going to crack down on this, bust those jaywalkers.
So they told the police to focus on this very
kind of infraction, and when they did. When you have
more law you have more law enforcement, you have more
interactions with the public, and the chances are increased that
you're going to have something like this happen, especially when
you have a person that doesn't want to take the
ticket and then refuses to be brought to jail for
refusing to take the ticket. Right so, and then he
fights back against the cops. He tries to grab a
taser and whatever. Okay, So the point here is that
these directives do come down. So obviously in Charlotte the
message went out, do not strictly enforce these crimes, and
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four number anonymous. How are we talking about crime for
weeks now and yet no word from the police chief.
Speaker 1: I think he's already gone. I think no, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know the answer to this
question that he is he is m I A which
honestly like if he were to show up at one
of these press conferences and try to offer comments. I'm
sure he would be peppered with questions about his settlement
and all of that scandal, and so he's just laying
low until the end of.
Speaker 2: The year and then he's gone.
Speaker 1: That's my bet. Let me see here. This is from
Martin quoting the mayor. I know what loss is about,
and so sometimes we have to remember that even though
when we're working together, there's a lot more to do
and to work around and get it done. And I
will and I will never forget this loss. I will
never forget it. It has been something that has been
difficult for me, but also something that has made me
a better mayor for the people of Charlotte. Right, that
was her quote. I read it. This was at that
press conference where they showed off their new bikes and
UTVs that they were going to be using along the
transit properties. Right, that this has made her a better mayor.
Her failure has made her a better mayor. Look, and hey,
you know you can learn a lot through failure because
you've tried something it didn't work. So okay, let's take
this as a positive step. Let's look at this glass
as half full and say that she tried the path
of soft on crime. It did not work, and now
it's made her a better mayor. So now she's going
to back more more enforcement. We can hope. Travis says,
the correct name for a message on X is a cross,
so he crossed it out barely. I barely give that
one to you, Travis. It's like rearranging decks on the Titanics.
As an anonymous seven oh four number eighth three numbers says,
is there any kind of rape other than forcible rape?
That's a good question, that's just I guess I was
codified in the law. Bill says, I worked uptown off
and on for forty one years, although I haven't worked
downtown in six years. When I go visit now, it
is scary. Ramir beard In Park has been turned into
a criminal haven. The last time it got safe was
when Mayor pat decided to do something about it and
really had a much larger police presence downtown during that era.
Have many colleagues that have had very negative experiences downtown recently.
Prior to COVID, I felt completely safe there. Letting people
riot in the streets did not help perception either. Well,
and Bill, it's a good point, because you've got this
talk about it a lot, I know. But this permission
structure that was erected with the protests that were allowed
to get out of control, and they even began before
twenty twenty, before the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots,
right Keith Lamont Scott, remember that he was shot and
killed by a CMPD officer. And you had all the
leftists that took to the streets and were protesting, and
then oh my gosh, I see a police officer with
a tactical vest I'm so triggered. I have to like
throw a rock through a window or something. So the
culture has been growing and the permission has been granted
little by little over time until we got to where
we are now. There was a quote actually from Michael Smith.
Let's see here, I have it here. It is Michael
Smith is the CEO of Charlotte Center City Partners, and
he said quote during COVID, the world needed grace and
we offered it. In doing so, I'm concerned that our
community has inadvertently relaxed our standards for public safety. Okay,
so no, there was no inadvertently about it. It was intentional,
right In fact he acknowledges. He says, the world needed
grace and we offered it. In other words, it's okay,
we know it's a pandemic. So if you need to
go around and you know, commit some crimes here and there,
will allow it. Okay, all right, fine, we're gonna give
you some grace here. And grace means what turning a
blind eye or something that like. But that's not justice.
You're giving grace. It's not yours to give, right And
in doing so, I'm concerned the community inadvertently relaxed our
standards for public safety. So there's the admission they did.
They did relax the standards for public safety, although it
was inadvertent, just like any decision that was made during
COVID by you know, my good friend Ray the governor
at the time, and Mandy Cohen, who, as I understand it,
has it going on that and that's from a song
that some moron sang for her. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
But yeah, during COVID, like they made all these decisions, lockdowns,
masking all of this stuff, and every single decision they
made I guess was perf They didn't make a single
mistake because nobody has ever come out and said, you
know what, we probably shouldn't have done this, Oh, we
probably shouldn't have had it last that long or whatever.
There's been no accountability, no post mortem assessment to say
this is what we did right, this is what we
did wrong. This made things better, this made things worse.
They haven't done it. But now we're finding out, Okay,
maybe some standards were relaxed. It was inadvertin, so now
we're going to have to crack down again.
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Police introducing the Crown Initiative, which is basically policing.
They're just gonna put more police in uptown South End,
and they're also re establishing the EED the EEDU, the
Entertainment District Unit. This will primarily patrol outside bars and
nightclubs in Uptown and in South End. The Public Safety
Task Force will work with state lawmakers also on needed
changes in the court system. This from Queen City News.
The increased visibility will include more officers patrolling, biking, or
walking throughout Uptown. No word yet on how many officers
will be out at a time, but CMPD said those
officers will enforce ordinances that ban aggressive panhandling and unpermitted
street vending. The EDU will be deployed around the bars,
it's part of their work. As part of the work,
they'll focus on reducing violence in fourth Ward, which, in
case folks don't know, they like the old the original
the wards were the original voting districts for the city.
And so if you're looking at the map, you got
trade and try on right there at the square. They
call it the square, even though it's a it's a cross,
which is weird, but whatever, it's called the square. And
so trade and try on, you know, tryon running north south,
trade running east west. And those are the four corners
where the corners of the four wards meet. That's how
they came up with the name. So first ward, second word,
third ward fourth word. It goes in clockwise fashion around
the horn there if you will so. CMPD will have
an update on their progress once they release their latest
crime data, which is supposed to be next week. I
guess this from the Charlotte Observer Nick Sullivan's piece at
the paper minor infractions. This is according to Major Gene Limb,
the area commander over the southeast part of the city.
Minor and fractions can eventually lead to more serious crimes. Really,
oh my gosh, who knew that, except like everybody who
has studied law enforcement procedures and policies for like the
last I don't know, sixty years. It's called the broken
window theory. When you let the little stuff slide, you
get more of it, and then people feel emboldened to
do the bigger stuff right Crown. The Crown initiative will
focus on quality of life crimes such as panhandling, illegal
street vending, and other quote public disruption crimes. The Charlotte
Meckleburg Police Department is launching the two initiatives in response
to what officials say are public perceptions there. It is
again the perceptions of danger in the city. Some notable
and by the way, those perceptions are based in reality,
because again in twenty twenty four first nine months, there
were three murders uptown. This year, there have been nine
murders uptown, so it's not simply a perception. All of
the violent categories have increased over last year in the
center city. Some notable recent incidents in Uptown include a
shootout that left one person dead at a club in September.
This week, a teenager was arrested after a group of
people were shot at Romer Beard in Park. Critics say
the city has not done enough to quell violent crime.
The FOP just last week wrote a letter calling for
the National Guard to be summoned to the Queen City.
I have the letter here. I still haven't gone over. Well,
maybe I'll do it right now. Let's do it. Let's
do it live. We'll do it live. Okay, here's the letter.
This is a request to the mayor, to Governor Josh Stein,
and to Donald Trump's administration. Due to the request is
due to the ongoing failure of city and police leadership
to address the severe staffing crisis within the Charlotte Mecklenburg
Police Department, which we believe has led to a violence
crisis in Charlotte. Now, what's hilarious about this, I mean
not hilarious, but about the Democrat messaging on this. Right,
what do you keep hearing when it comes to like
the federal government shutdown? What do we keep hearing that
there needs to be more funding? Right? More money? What
did we hear after the murder of Arena Zarutska there
needs to be more funding, more money. What did we
hear after the passage and during the debate over Arena's
law in the General Assembly? More money? We need more money.
That's been the constant drumbeet. We need more money.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: More money for cops? Got to fund more police positions.
We need more money for the police, more money for
the police. Right. Well, okay, that seems to indicate then
that there needs to be more staffing, right, you need
to staff up because we're at a recruiting deficit. We
have a lot of open positions in Charlotte Mecklenburg Police. Okay,
So how would you like some National Guards national Guard
troops to come in and help backstop CMPD. Right, So
this way you would have like some National Guard walking
around doing that stuff, and you'd have CMPD. That would
be able to, you know, go and effectuate and arrest.
They could do more investigations and stuff. They could do
more of that kind of work and they're not going
to be tied up with some of the patrolling. Right. Well,
why wouldn't you want the National Guard? Well, I don't know.
Apparently the mayor she says she doesn't want the National Guard.
I think even Senator Tom Tillis said we don't need
the National Guard. Well wait a minute, which is it?
Is there a problem with a lack of policing, a
lack of police officers? If so, shouldn't you welcome some
more bodies on the street, right? I mean not like
dead bodies like we're seeing right now, but like live bodies,
like officers walking the bead and troops that are like
providing protection for businesses in like the downtown area, round
the bars and stuff. Why not do that? Why not
accept this offer? Why not make the request? Why not
join the FOP request? I know, I know, because Trump,
It's all because of Trump. Residents can expect to see
more officers patrolling the streets and stricter enforcement within a
half mile radius of trade and try on. Okay, So
if you're if you're a criminal, just make sure you
keep the crime outside of the like the trade and
try on area half mile radius around trade and triumph. Okay,
that's apparently that's the message. Major Gene Limb from CMPD
said this is a focused, high impact effort to immediately
shift the environment and perception of our center city. Disorder
will not be tolerated. Well, I know I'm dragging these
people a bit, but honestly it's about time. I welcome
the renewed focus on public safety and sweating the little things.
You know. This is from Mark on the text line.
It's awful funny. There wasn't enough police for transit. Now
they can increase police around town. But it's like you said,
it's not the police, it's really the court system. Is
more aggressive enforcement really going to lead to more aggressive prosecution?
I think not. I mean that's a fair question. And
Robert says the police are not the problem. The governing
democrats are and have been, and everybody knows it. Should
they call in the guard to help the police, we
both know that won't happen. None of this would be
happening if the killing of Arena Zarutzka could have been
swept under the rug, but it wasn't it made national
news and even then Charlotte politicians, especially the mayo or mayor.
I guess that meant to say, try to ignore it.
Charlotte is in a sad state of affairs, Buddy says.
I grew up in Charlotte when it was still downtown.
Now if you go there, it would be going uptown.
Downtown means you've been taken downtown. Okay, I don't know
if I'm following that. Downtown always yeah, that always struck
me as like that's where the police department is. You
know we're going downtown. So all right, that'll do it
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