Key Highlights
- Two in three Charlotte, North Carolina, residents say they feel less safe today than they did a year ago, according to a recent survey, as the city reels from two violent train stabbings.
- More than 930 people responded to a survey that the Queen City recently completed before hiring its new police chief, Stella Patterson.
- Residents overwhelmingly said that they want a proactive police force, not a reactive one, with 66% saying that they feel less safe. The results come as Charlotte contends with another stabbing on its light rail system, months after the stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
- On Friday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officers responded to a call regarding assault with a deadly weapon.
- When they arrived, they found the victim, identified as Kenyon Kareem-Shemar Dobie, with a stab wound, according to warrants.
