CHARLOTTE — After months of preparation and debate, owners of rental property in Charlotte can begin registering with the city Tuesday. Under the city’s new rental registration ordinance, which won City Council approval in June, every residential rental property within city limits must be registered with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department or face a fine. It’s [...]
Last week, in a 4-0 vote, the council’s public safety committee gave its support to the proposal, which calls for rental property owners to give the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department their contact information, including business and home addresses and phone numbers.
Neighborhoodscout.com’s finding that the North Tryon corridor — roughly the area between North Graham Street, Atando Avenue, Brevard Street and the Brookshire Freeway — belongs on the list of the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America does not sit well with Robert Tufano. Tufano, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokesman, says the report is inaccurate, although he [...]
In the past year since Charlotte’s rental ordinance took effect, 643 properties have surpassed the city’s threshold for crime. That means, in theory, that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officials should have met with the owners of 643 properties, of which 553 were single-family homes. Not all of those meetings took place, though. Instead, CMPD has met [...]
Detective Charles Witherspoon usually doesn’t get involved until things get really bad, and the situation last year at Vox Sports Club on Wilkinson Boulevard in west Charlotte was about the worst he’d ever seen. The 28-year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department heads the Nuisance Abatement Unit, a collaboration between CMPD and other local government [...]
Light-rail ridership levels tripled May 28 during Food Lion Speed Street compared with an average Saturday, and some of those passengers did not pay after they were let on trains when rail platforms became overwhelmed. Normally, there are approximately 10,000 Lynx light-rail passengers and 30,000 bus passengers on a Saturday, Charlotte Area Transit System Director [...]
The city of Charlotte is expanding its use of Huntsville, Ala.-based Intergraph’s computer-aided dispatching technology to the fire department. In the first year, the city will pay Intergraph $118,012 for the fire department’s use of the service, the city said. That’s on top of the city’s annual payment of $347,697 to Intergraph for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s use of the service. [...]
A federal agency said today it didn’t order police in North Carolina to seal a report about a teenager who died after stowing away in the wheel well of a jet flying from Charlotte to Boston. The revelation appears to contradict what police said as they indicated they had completed a probe involving the death [...]
Amendments more than a year in the making may be made to Charlotte’s towing ordinance in the coming months, and business owners say it’s about time. “There was one instance, and I saw it with my own eyes, where a couple parked their car, walked 25 feet away, then they saw the sign that said [...]
Much has been made of the potential negative consequences of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools closures and consolidations — whether they will affect students’ ability to learn or teachers’ ability to teach. But some members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Gang Intelligence Unit are concerned that CMS’s recent budget cuts and school closings may have unintended consequences [...]
