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Mini-Crime Wave Hits Charlotte
Leave it to Crime in Charlotte to detail the 26 armed carjackings/robberies that hit the Queen City Friday thru Sunday. The Uptown paper of record caught the bump in carjackings,…
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New Leadership for CMPD
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Darrel Stephens will retire March 1. This means Stephens will join former City Manager Pam Syfert and CATS CEO Ron Tober in leaving their long-time city government…
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Blogger Catches Sex Offender
And CMPD bitches about it. Honestly folks, the world has gone mad. Positively turned upside down. Crime in Charlotte, the blog that was kept better track of local crime than…
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Mecklenburg and Mexico: Together Again
This trip by Mecklenburg County leaders to Mexico next month is getting strange. To recap, WBT’s Keith Larson has been having fun the past few mornings with an odd little…
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Our Clueless Police Chief
Charlotte is not the eighth most dangerous city in America, so says CMPD chief Darrel Stephens. Crime, dear citizens, is more complicated than “dangerous” or “safe.” Similarly, CMS has habitually…
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Wayne Furr: It Will Happen Again
That is only possible conclusion to draw from what CMPD Chief Darrel Stephens had to say about the shooting death of Wayne Furr. Stephens said no department policies or guidelines…
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Crime in Charlotte Breaks Thru
Keeping 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…
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Wrong Gambling! Bad Gambling!
Local video poker raids net nine arrests. “Video poker destroys families” — Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph. “Video poker is not a victimless crime” — CMPD Police Chief Darrel Stephens.…
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Uptown Gun Reports Shot Down
Wow, those “citizen complaints” about the open display of guns Uptown always seemed a tad sketchy to us. Turns out they were totally non-existent. Police chief Darrel Stephens somehow created…
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Uptown Guns (cont'd)
The proposal to ban the display of guns in Charlotte after a few sketchy gun sightings is now on hold for a few weeks. City staff is going off to…