mitchellKeeping with our recurring theme that new forms of alt-media are breaking down the Old Media wall of misdirection, the rest of Charlotte is quickly catching on to the excellent Crime in Charlotte blog.

CinC has been at the forefront of documenting the practice of local troublemakers celebrating their troublemaking on their MySpace pages. Troublemakers like Holly Mitchell, who brought a semi-automatic rifle to a West Meck football game. Mitchell (above) has been arrested five times since June 2005.

This is a classic hidden-in-plain sight issue. Wasn’t it not too long ago that CMPD police chief Darrel Stephens was down-playing Charlotte’s gang problem? Follow the links and to the info CinC has dug up and realize that the happy talk is gone for good.