When I moved to South Carolina I took an interest in the crime rates of the surrounding environs. I quickly learned that Charlotte, North Carolina was a modern version of the semi-Lawless East Orange, NJ I grew up in in the 70s and 80s. A place where criminals fear nothing and rapes, robberies and murders in broad daylight are commonplace.
Crime in Charlotte, NC is a blog I read at least weekly and they have a copy of an email Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James wrote to a family explaining why justice for their murdered daughter was being delayed. James is an old fashioned politician who shoots straight and doesn’t sugarcoat the truth and his letter explains exactly why Charlotte is more dangerous than even NYC:
It is a sad day in America and Charlotte when your daughter and family can’t receive justice and closure over this tragedy from Charlotte’s officials.
The County Commission here in Charlotte had an opportunity to leave $3 million in a reserve for crime fighting identified by the County Manager as a result of local public pressure of the escalating crime problem. It was already IN the budget and the Manager had already recommended it for funding. A Task Force was set up to evaluate how best to allocate the money. All the Democrats had to do was nothing, just leave the money alone so that the process could work. They were unable to resist grabbing the money (or most of it) for their friends.
We were to use that money to hire additional assistant DA’s and move cases through the court system faster. Right now, each Assist. DA has roughly 250 cases to manage. You can imagine the lack of justice that exists in Charlotte right now. Criminals have an open season to murder, rape, rob and assault with abandon. Charlotte is as lawless as some old west town in 1870. Money for public defenders is three times the money for the DA’s office that prosecutes the crooks.
The Democrats (sad but true) gutted this $3 million crime fighting reserve for the District Attorney’s office like they were filleting a fish, taking the money and moving it into social programs for those that are their buddies. In Charlotte it is who you know that counts.
Read the rest. More hope and change from the left, and with commanding majorities in the House and Senate, and a a good chance at putting a doctrinaire liberal in the White house, the rest of the country will start looking just like Charlotte.