No major changes to CMPDâs search warrant policies, community activists still take it as sign of progress
CMPD will not change some policies after review By Paige Pauroso | April 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM EDT - Updated April 6 at 6:39 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department says it can only go so far when it comes to policing reforms.
The department was asked to re-examine certain policies after last summerâs protests.
Most recently theyâve been looking at how officers handle search warrants.
At the urging of a national movement called âCampaign Zero,â CMPD agreed to recommendations on wearing body cams during searches and the department banned âno-knock warrantsâ last year.
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Mecklenburg County officials said they expect to move more than 200 people to shelters or hotel rooms exceeding original estimates of 150 by the time homeless camps near uptown Charlotte are shut down Friday. And the question over whose responsibility it is to clear the camps turned contentious between the city of Charlotte and the county.
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CMPD addresses homicide total as 2020 becomes deadliest year in Charlotteâs history
CMPD investigating 123 homicides in 2020 By WBTV Web Staff | December 29, 2020 at 5:04 PM EST - Updated December 30 at 6:51 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The end of 2020 is a heavy one for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department while they investigate 123 homicides, a record number of killings for the city in a single year.
CMPD is reminding the community the number represents 123 lives lost to violent crime in Charlotte in 2020, leaving hundreds of families mourning and a countless number of lives changed forever. It paints a painful and tragic picture of the level of fatal violence in the city.