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Charlotte Citizen Review Board
City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to give more power to the Citizen Review Board, an 11-member volunteer board that monitors complaints against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Former Mayor […]
Hours away from rental registration, penalties still murky
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 […]
Mandatory rental registration plan headed for City Council vote
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.
CMPD disputes report’s crime ranking for North Tryon corridor
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 […]
Rentals on the radar
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 […]
For businesses breaking zoning laws, Charles Witherspoon is the man to fear
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 […]
CATS loses ‘possibly hundreds of dollars’ in revenue on Speed Street night
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 […]
City of Charlotte inks $118,012 deal for fire department dispatching technology
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 […]
TSA says stowaway report was never ordered sealed
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 […]
Towing a new line
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, […]
With schools closing come gang concerns
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. […]
‘Cash cow for Charlotte’
Just follow the money. Do that, Cornelius Mayor Jeff Tarte says, and you’ll find out why people in the unincorporated areas of Cornelius aren’t getting the police protection for which […]
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