October 8, 2025 • 32 mins
Tune in here to this Wednesday's edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen!
Breaking Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about regional safety coordination and a major emergency response drill at Carowinds.
Jensen dives into a major multi-agency emergency response drill held at Carowinds, involving 47 units from North Carolina, South Carolina, and even federal and tribal agencies. He explains the significance of collaboration during large-scale emergencies and previews audio from the event, including distinctions between “active shooter” and “active violence” scenarios.
Jensen then recaps a key press conference held by Charlotte Center City Partners and CMPD that focused on new public safety initiatives aimed at restoring order and improving perception in uptown Charlotte which outlined ongoing efforts such as Operation TRIO and the newly launched CROWN Initiative. These programs target crime hotspots, enforce quality-of-life ordinances, and increase police visibility around major venues and parks.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
The News Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett Jenson here
with you on this Isaac Wednesday, Wednesday Night edition of
Breaking with Brett Jensen. As we go up until seven
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he will tell me and we can discuss it. I
don't have a tendency to look at the text line
while the show's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's mister Isaac and Isaac alone.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, so we're gonna get into some things tonight concerning safety.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
There were a couple of press conferences today, although one
wasn't really a press conference. It was just statements, so
there were just statement there were no questions allowed, just statements,
and the other one.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Took three questions before they cut off.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So we had two major press conferences with a grand
total of three questions allowed and then I yelled in
a fourth question at the very very end, and sometimes
I am prone to do. But the first press conference
took place down at Carowin's, and if you're listening to WBT,
you've heard my report down there from Carowins, and Noah
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had absolutely nothing to do with the theme park per se.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That was the location where forty seven.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
First responders from North Carolina, forty seven agencies I should
say from North Carolina, South Carolina, and part of the
federal government and even the Cataba tribal nation all took
part of this. So whether it's York County and York
County sheriff, Fort Mill police, Midlands fire departments like you
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had fire departments and rescues and sheriffs and police and
everything else. There right a lot of stuff there and
they are coming together this first time they've done this.
They came together to decide to hey, you know what,
when there's a major event, how often does Mecklimber County
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get help from outside agencies? It could be Fort Mill,
could be rock Hill, could be Gastonia, could be Belmont,
could be Monroe, whatever, right, and also vice versa. How
you know, it's not uncommon for CMPD to go into
York County to help out with situations there. So they're like,
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we need to get together and figure this out and
act like there's a massive situation and a massive emergency
at Carowin's where they're doing active shooter and then active violence.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And you will hear.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You will hear in the audio that we're going to
play shortly, what's the difference between an active violence situation
and an active shooter situation? Now, I will tell you,
and I will remind you next segment. You can't hear
the questions. You can't hear me yelling the questions what's
the difference between an active shooter and active violent situation?
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And you'll hear the sheriff from your county answer that,
but you won't be able to hear the questions. So
I just basically cut.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The question out because you can't hear the questions.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
One of the reasons why you had the CMPD helicopter
flying overhead so you can hear them perfectly speaking into
the microphone, but you can't hear us. Well, I mean,
they were only, like I said, four questions anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Before they go okay, that's enough, no more questions, which
is better than what they did uptown with the Charlotte
City Center Partners, where they gave all these.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Statements and I'll play and I use this term loosely
highlights from that press conference this afternoon, which Mayor Vilas
started by welcoming everyone good morning, even though it was
like mid mid afternoon. Nonetheless, the one uptown Charlotte City
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Center Partners, you had multiple politicians who offered as much
clarity as they do during their city council.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Meetings or during interviews.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That be zero, Bob, that'd be zero. I don't know
why any of them spoke. I don't know why they
were there, because they've had chances to do things on
their own, and all they've done is what the bad
for many years and just watch the violence and Charlotte
get worse and worse and worse, or at the very
least like bad, and then sort of just stay in
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the bad zone.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Like they've had chances and they've done nothing right.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So why you would want to partner with the government
who has done nothing I can't answer that. Maybe the
business leaders feel like they have to have the government's
help in order to do what they want to do.
The problem is we didn't hear a lot about what
they wanted to do. So when you hear that audio
laying on, because by the way, each one of you
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should send me a personal thank you email, because in
that audio that was like thirty one minutes long, I
took out and removed all these city employees, the four
that spoke, the mayor, two council members, and the city manager.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
They said nothing. Have you heard the term?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I didn't realize there were people that I didn't
realize had never heard this term.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And this has been a term for at least five years.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It was a nothing burger. I was surprised that people
had never heard that before. But a nothing burger. That's
what it was. Not a cheeseburger, but a nothing burger.
They offered nothing, zero point zero, absolutely nothing. So I'm
leaving all them out. And so what I'm going to
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do is you'll hear from the CMPD person talking about
some initiatives that the business leaders in Uptown want to implement.
Some things they didn't go to great details, which I
don't know why, but they didn't. And by the way,
CMPD next week is having their third quarter statistics crime report.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We'll we'll have that for you next week. But again,
the first press conference you're gonna hear audio from is
going to be all about the first responders and how
all these units, some of the units came away as
far as far away as Lexington County down there in
Colombia to be part of this.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And then you know all the fire like from all agencies.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That you can imagine, they all came together from a big,
wide range area to participate in the active violence slash
active shooter situation. So you'll hear them describing what they're doing,
why they're here, why they came together, and then you'll
hear some of the questions like what's me. You won't
be able to hear the question, but you'll hear the answer.
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What's the difference between active shooter and active violence? How
many people? How many first responders total forty seven units
by how many are taking part of this three day
adventure or not adventure but program? And then what do
police people get out of it that's different from say
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ems and fire. So those are the three things that
I asked. So anyways, we're going to start playing some
of that audio and re return and I'll set it
all up for you once again, including that big nothing
that took place later this afternoon in uptown.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Okay, so here's the press conference that took place down
in Carolin's. At least they actually took a couple of questions.
And again you will not be able to hear the
questions because and I saw I just cut them out.
So you'll hear answers. He'll hear an answer or a
question from me asking the sheriff what does the police
department's side, law enforcement side gain out of these exercises,
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and how many people are involved and what's the difference
between active shooter and active violence situation. So this all
took place today again, forty seven agencies from across North
Carolina and South Carolina coming together for a three day
training seminar at Carowins.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good morning, I'm Battalion Chief John Lipsack with the Charlotte
Fire Department. Thank you for joining us at Caro Wins
for this exercise with our UFCITE partners and put on
by Charlotte Mecklenburg Emergency Management Office. This is a large
scale exercise that brings together agencies from multiple departments, multiple counties,
and across state lines. It's a unique opportunity to combine
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two states in one exercise at this part since it
lies in two states. So I'll introduce our speakers now,
Division Chief White Graham, Director of Charlotte, Mecklenburg Emergency Management Office,
York County Sheriff Tony Breden, York County Emergency Manager Chuck Haynes,
and Fire Chief Reggie Johnson Charlotte Fire.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Department, Tony Breden, York County Sheriff's Office. And what people
don't realize is today is really just a culmination of
what he said the last year. And the best part
about that is the relationships that have been developed over
the last year. The communication Now there's contacts, and it's
pretty rare, like he said, to have dis large of
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an agency response with multi states and to have something
that is actually joined.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
By two states.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So the operation was really just to build those relationships
and culminate. And this is, like he said, has been
going on for a year. It's been a lot of
work by our people, our Emergency Management Charlotte and all
of their representatives. So we're just extremely appreciated to be
able to participate. And more importantly, it just shows all
of our citizens how seriously we're taking protecting them and
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taking care of them and getting ourselves in a position
to handle something, which is why, you know, with the
real world events and the things we're seeing today, which
is why today was pretty applicable and why we focused
on it so strongly. About what we've seen, and the
success will be determined later on by the work we
put in today. So appreciate everybody being here. I'm grateful
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for everything, super appreciative of Charlotte and our emergency management
and all of our people and the deputies and the
officers that have put in a ton of time over
this last year getting ready for today, and then how
they've performed in there should make everybody feel really good
about what we'll be able to do when something happens.
So thank y'all so much.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Thanks sure, good morning.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
What a great opportunity to put out our skills that's
been developed over many years behind us is a culmination
of many hours and many financial resources in order to
gain the skill sets to deliver a successful emergency response.
Even though we are at Cara Wins, many players involved
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here they do not have a Caro Wins in their
county or city. But they're here to execute a skill
set that is applicable anywhere. As the sheriff said, our
partnership with Charlotte Mecklenburg couldn't be better. We are truly
friends and we've developed that every many years, and we
don't lose sight of our good friends that come to
our aid when we call to help, and vice versa.
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The key today and even though we do appreciate Caro Wins,
letting us be here and this is what a wonderful
venue it is. We have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of responders exchanging cell phones, numbers and their cards and
building relationships. So when this may be an actuality, maybe
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not here, maybe at a different site, those are going
to be executed in a friendly manner. And the key
to it all is for an accessible outcome to the event.
This is government at work preparedness. We ask families and
friends to talk what their preparedness strategy is for themselves
and their households. This is us showcasing that, and so
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this is the opportunity to encourage that. And so if
anything can be taken from the story, this is us
serving you, please help yourself as well. There's plenty of
wonderful websites ready. Dot gov is a great one that
your family can visit. Talk about communications, building a plan
and that sort of thing. We appreciate the gentlemen behind
us and the agencies involving their hours that they've spent
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dedicated to serving the citizen, and I will turn it
over to Chief Johnson at this time.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I want to thank each of y'all for coming. We
have a few minutes for questions, just one or two.
If anybody has one of any of the four members
that spoke yes, ma'am behind me, you can see. This
is what teamwork looks like in government, and lets all
agencies know that their partners down the road, across county
lines or across state lines are there with them and
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ready to act in a moment's notice when something like
this goes on.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
So, one of the things that we are utilizing is
simmunition training, which is they're using like real guns, but
they shoot these simmunition rounds and when you have that
kind of feedback, you know if you messed up when
you get shot.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So it is also some real.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Life training, but this is a reality of when you're
at a park like this, you'll have multiple agencies responding.
So some of the terminology you use and some of
the language that you use kind of crosses over in
the tactical aspect of it. And you know, we do
an extensive amount of active shooter training, active violent training
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as it is, and that this just gives us that
chance to culminate it with that real life scenario that
we can that we can put all that training throughout
the year to a test. Well, sometimes you may list
something as active violence because you don't know what they have.
You know, you could have multiple weapons, you could have
shooters that could start out shoot and go to other things,
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could start out with knives or sharp edged weapons that
turn into a shooter. So's that's just another it's just
another term that somebody comes up with. So they can
probably teach a class somewhere as what it is. Probably
it's you know what I'm saying. It doesn't matter what
they're doing in there, you have to stop them. So
whatever acronym you put on, it doesn't necessarily matter.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Well, we started yesterday today and then tomorrow will end.
And there's been a course of probably three to four
hundred first responders each day out here.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So there's the press conference.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Like I said, I took out the questions just because
you couldn't understand them the hero anyway, especially with the
helicopter flying over. But did you hear what he said
when he said the difference between an active active violence
and active shooter. It's probably just a term someone came
up with so they can teach a class. That's funny.
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That's actually funny. But here's the other thing that he said.
When I asked the question, what do the to the sheriff?
What do they gain? What does law enforcement gain out
of this? And you know, he said, we're using simulation bullets.
I think that's how I pronounced it correctly, as opposed
to like ammunition or simulation, like they combine the two words.
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And he said, you know you've messed up when you've
gotten shot. And I went, oh, so they're using some
It made me think that they must be using some
kind of real projectiles. I don't know if it's rubber
bullets or what, but something that or you know, even
paintball bullets, you know, paintballs at that matter. But you
know you've messed up when you've gotten shot, and you
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know in these simulations when you've gotten shot. So that's
pretty telling. So they're doing this for three days. They
did it, started it yesterday, doing it today, and then
you heard them say like three to four hundred people
each day. So nothing bad can come from what was
going on out there. Cohens Caroen wins and I applaud
them for trying to put this together and doing this
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actively and collectively.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, when we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The nothing burger that was uptown, we'll hear from that
when we return. Welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen
on this beautiful Wednesday night. Okay, so earlier this afternoon,
not this morning according to bil Ales. It was this
morning according to her, but no, it was this afternoon.
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The members up there were the Charlotte City Center partners
along with CMPD, three politicians and the city manager got
together and they spoke.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, apparently after.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
They spoke, may you know, members of the media were
maybe able to grab individuals of the press conference individually,
but they didn't take any They didn't feel questions collectively.
You were maybe able to grab someone you know, privately
or after the fact here or there. Right, Apparently that
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may have happened, but nothing collectively at a press conference. Nonetheless,
here's the statements of everyone said, and I'm getting I
cut out all the politicians, I cut out the city manager,
and I just left in the like the two most
important speakers.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Thank you all for the opportunity to be here with you.
My name is David Longo, and I am the CEO
of CBI Workplace Solutions, the chair of the Charlotte Regional
Business Alliance, and I also have the honor of serving
on the Center City Partner Board. We have as we discussed,
we formed this Public Safety task Force about eleven weeks ago,
I believe yesterday, and the work of this task force
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is intense and focused work to make sure our entire
community is safe now when we scale, when we benchmark
our city, I don't think it's reasonable to look at
a tiny city in benchmark, but I think we need
to benchmark against the top fifty cities in this country,
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and we want to be at the top of that list.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
We're going to.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Be starting with a series of communication events like this,
and we're starting with CMPD and some of the actions
that they've been doing to work alongside all of us
to move the needle and make progress. CMPD has been
an amazing partner. They have been collaborative, supportive, and they
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do great work and they want to continue to improve things.
So with that, I'd like to welcome up Major Gene
Lim who serves as the area commander for a patrol
for this southeast which includes Central, East Way, Independence and
the Providence Divisions.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
A good afternoon everyone. It's exciting to be here representing
the City of Charlotte and CMPD in the matter of
public safety. Uptown Charlotte is the heart of our city.
It's a place where residents, businesses, visitors should thrive. It's
a destination because of the efforts of so many people,
a lot of people in this room to make it
a vibrant atmosphere home professional sports, large conventions, beautiful parks,
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and thriving businesses. But to maintain that vibrancy, we must
keep Uptown safe. The unique nature of Uptown is our
primary entertainment district, hosts major events and our highest density
of foot traffic, which means the challenges here are unique,
complex and require a dedicated, NonStop commitment. I can't talk
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about Uptown safety without mentioning partnerships we have. The organizations
like Charlotte Center city partners. Many of the folks in
this room that I'm speaking with today have worked tirelessly
for Uptown's well being. I firmly believe that the success
is found in working together building bridges we can all
walk across, and thank you for continued robust partnership to all. Additionally,
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our Central Division officers are out there in the community
day in and day out, whether it's on foot, in
patrol cars, on bicycles, and dual sport motorcycles, just to
name a few. I also want to thank them for
their dedicated commitment to keeping us safe. We're continuing existing
operations like Operation TRIO, and that stands for Targeted Response,
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for Innovation, for Intervention and outreach Uptown. Operation TRIO is
focused effort to reduce violent property crime in high traffic
areas it's working. We originally focused on areas like Spectrum
Center and the Charlotte Transportation Center, and as of July
twenty twenty four, just about a year ago, we added
all the parks Romer Bearden, First Ward and fourth Ward Park.
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It's critical to note that the Transit Center is currently
the leading location for arrest, followed closely by Rome or
Bearden Park. So we know where the issues are and
we're putting our officers there to meet them head on.
But a few simple adjustments are no longer enough. I'm
excited to share that we have launched the CROWN Initiative
CROWN stands for Center Cities, Restoration of Order and Wellness
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and Nonviolence in the fourth quarter of this year as
a direct response to residents and businesses who have clearly
stated that Uptown no longer feels safe to them. I
want to be clear that this feeling is unacceptable. This
is a focused, high impact effort to immediately shift the
environment and perception of our center city. You should expect
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elevated police presence and strict enforcement within a one half
mile radius of Trade Street and Trin Street, which is
the square. Disorder will not be tolerated. We're focusing on
quality of life crimes and ordinances that eroad safety, such
as aggressive panhandling, illegal street vending, public disruption crimes, if
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you will. Minor infractions are gateways to major crime, and
they will be addressed by the CNPD with zero hesitation.
I want to be clear to everybody that comes uptown
and seeks to create disorder, there will be consequences from
the CNPD if you do so. Our strategy is strict enforcement,
but it's balanced with compassion. We are not abandoning those
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in need. I don't want anyone in here to think
that strict enforcement means that we can't have a duty
of care to the public. A critical component of CROWN
is maintaining partnerships an organization like the Cares Team, roof Above,
Hearts of the Invisible. We're going to continue to work
with these resources for our underserved and unsheltered populations to
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provide vital, life changing resources. This is a collaborative effort
involving Central Division officers, CNPD, specialized units. I want to
thank the District Attorney here who's in attendance today, for
being a huge partner and getting this off the ground
and run and code Enforcement and Center City partners. The
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goal is simple and imperative to achieve an immediate, tangible
improvement in public perception of safety in Uptown, reduce overall crime,
and emphatically reinforce the fundamental mission of policing. Another initiative
we've launched recently in the fourth quarter is the Entertainment
District Unit or EDU. We have seen concerning trends violent
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crime near bars and nightlife. This is also unacceptable. We
owe our citizens visitors a vibrant nightlife with as much
safety measures as possible. The EDU is a highly focused,
specialized police unit dedicated entirely to making our night life
safer for everyone. The EDU will operate during peak night
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life hours. Their single focus is consistent high visibility policing
and in and around are entertainment districts and major event venues.
These officers will build direct relationships with security and bar owners.
They'll dress problems proactively before violence occurs, replacing officers where
and when the crime is most likely to happen. Crucially,
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the EU will support our already hard working current patrol
staff and initiatives. The creation of this unit is our
clear commitment to restoring order in public safety stronger in
the Center City than it was yesterday. Central Division just
one of thirteen patrol divisions, and at fourteen if you
count our Airport Division. Our officers are working diligently in
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all of these divisions to create a public safety environment
we can all be proud of. I don't want it
to become lost that we're just doing this work in
Center city. We are doing this across our patrol divisions,
so I hope when you see an officer you'll thank
them because I can guarantee, and being in this agency
for twenty six and a half years, it is harder
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to do this work in twenty twenty five than it
was in nineteen ninety nine when I came on. Next week,
CMPD will hold its third quarter press briefing where we'll
share crime stats throughout the city and give more overall
picture of crime not only in the center city, but
in the entire jurisdiction. And to close, I'd like to
mention that we have some exciting I believe the city
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manager prefaced it. We have some exciting additions to Central Division. Recently,
we were able to bring eight new officers out of
Recruit Class two hundred directly to Central Division. Last Friday,
we graduated eleven Lateral Entry officers, and that's officers that
are coming into CMPD with experience from different agencies. On
October seventeenth, we'll have a graduation for recruit class two
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oh one, and we are working diligently to seize another
class in the near future. So we're really excited to
continue this work I thank everyone for taking the time
to listen to all the work that's being done. I
thank everybody in the room.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
So again that's the press conferences, and again some things
were said, but not in great detail, so hopefully we'll
get more and more details. And then next week cmpd's
having their third quarter stats press conference. They were gloating
on how all the violent crime was down through the
first half. We'll see how that goes in the second
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in the third quarter, because we already know how that went.
Welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen on this Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, so last night you heard me, Yeah, it
was last night. It takes me a couple of minutes
to figure out the days.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Last night I talked about the Carolina Panthers, right, Isaac,
That was yesterday, Caroline, But more importantly, the Carolina tar
Hills and Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Right, Well, there are all these new reports that.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
There's hope that they can actually now fire Bill Belichick
with cause. Why they have at least one assistant coach
has been suspended for very minor recruiting violations. So I
don't know if that's enough to fire him with cause
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I don't I sincerely doubt it, but because usually in
coaches contracts it would have to be like major violations, right,
not these, you know, literally tiny small, because every program
has a lot of tiny, tiny violations.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So because the rules are so insane, But apparently.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
There may be from reports that you see and stuff
you know everywhere else, that maybe Carolina knows of many
more violations, and that the rumor is because the North
Carolina owes Bill Belichick thirty million dollars fully guaranteed, and
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the chancellor and the board of trustees should either all
be fired or forced to work without pay for two
years for the malpractice they've inflicted upon that school. I
truly believe that you want to keep your job, you
work the next two years without a paycheck. How about them, apples,
This was your brilliant idea to hire a seventy three
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year old with a twenty four year old girlfriend. A
seventy three year old who everyone in the NFL hates,
got fired from his job, and no, not a no one,
No one would interview him. The Atlanta Falcons gave him
a courtesy interview and moved on from him so quickly
and made your head spind Think about all the openings,
including the Panthers. No one wanted to talk to Bill Belichick. Nobody,
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nobody could stand him. And now you're seeing all the
stuff come out there with Carolina Now, so now there
is belief or hope. I should say hope, because if
you can fire him with calls, that means you don't
have to pay him his.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thirty million. And now there's.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Speculation that Bill Belichick at to the end of the
year will say, you know what, I'm just gonna take
my million dollar payout and I'm just gonna sell off
into the sunset. It's not working for anybody. You can
just go off with your twenty four year old girlfriend
and enjoy life over the next five years until you die.
I look at him like he looks horrible, Like there
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is you would never believe that he and Pete Carroll,
the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, are about the
same age, same age. Pete Carroll looks like a million dollars.
Bill Belichick looks like Stone Grant, weathered, crusty stone. So anyways,
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Carolina fans, there's hope yet you may get rid of
Bill Belichick. Well, while you're at it, you might want
to try and get a new chancellor and a new board.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Because if these are the decisions.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
That they're making for the athletic department, God only knows
what they're doing to corrupt your children's minds. If this
is their if this is what their track record is,
God only knows what they're doing for the classrooms and
the professors. All right, everyone that's going to do it
for us tonight, look forward to doing this all over
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again tomorrow.
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By the way, don't forget.
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's mister Isaac and Isaac alone.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, so we're gonna get into some things tonight concerning safety.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
There were a couple of press conferences today, although one
wasn't really a press conference. It was just statements, so
there were just statement there were no questions allowed, just statements,
and the other one.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Took three questions before they cut off.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So we had two major press conferences with a grand
total of three questions allowed and then I yelled in
a fourth question at the very very end, and sometimes
I am prone to do. But the first press conference
took place down at Carowin's, and if you're listening to WBT,
you've heard my report down there from Carowins, and Noah
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had absolutely nothing to do with the theme park per se.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That was the location where forty seven.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
First responders from North Carolina, forty seven agencies I should
say from North Carolina, South Carolina, and part of the
federal government and even the Cataba tribal nation all took
part of this. So whether it's York County and York
County sheriff, Fort Mill police, Midlands fire departments like you
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had fire departments and rescues and sheriffs and police and
everything else. There right a lot of stuff there and
they are coming together this first time they've done this.
They came together to decide to hey, you know what,
when there's a major event, how often does Mecklimber County
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get help from outside agencies? It could be Fort Mill,
could be rock Hill, could be Gastonia, could be Belmont,
could be Monroe, whatever, right, and also vice versa. How
you know, it's not uncommon for CMPD to go into
York County to help out with situations there. So they're like,
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we need to get together and figure this out and
act like there's a massive situation and a massive emergency
at Carowin's where they're doing active shooter and then active violence.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And you will hear.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You will hear in the audio that we're going to
play shortly, what's the difference between an active violence situation
and an active shooter situation? Now, I will tell you,
and I will remind you next segment. You can't hear
the questions. You can't hear me yelling the questions what's
the difference between an active shooter and active violent situation?
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And you'll hear the sheriff from your county answer that,
but you won't be able to hear the questions. So
I just basically cut.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The question out because you can't hear the questions.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
One of the reasons why you had the CMPD helicopter
flying overhead so you can hear them perfectly speaking into
the microphone, but you can't hear us. Well, I mean,
they were only, like I said, four questions anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Before they go okay, that's enough, no more questions, which
is better than what they did uptown with the Charlotte
City Center Partners, where they gave all these.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Statements and I'll play and I use this term loosely
highlights from that press conference this afternoon, which Mayor Vilas
started by welcoming everyone good morning, even though it was
like mid mid afternoon. Nonetheless, the one uptown Charlotte City
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Center Partners, you had multiple politicians who offered as much
clarity as they do during their city council.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Meetings or during interviews.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That be zero, Bob, that'd be zero. I don't know
why any of them spoke. I don't know why they
were there, because they've had chances to do things on
their own, and all they've done is what the bad
for many years and just watch the violence and Charlotte
get worse and worse and worse, or at the very
least like bad, and then sort of just stay in
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the bad zone.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Like they've had chances and they've done nothing right.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
So why you would want to partner with the government
who has done nothing I can't answer that. Maybe the
business leaders feel like they have to have the government's
help in order to do what they want to do.
The problem is we didn't hear a lot about what
they wanted to do. So when you hear that audio
laying on, because by the way, each one of you
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should send me a personal thank you email, because in
that audio that was like thirty one minutes long, I
took out and removed all these city employees, the four
that spoke, the mayor, two council members, and the city manager.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
They said nothing. Have you heard the term?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I didn't realize there were people that I didn't
realize had never heard this term.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And this has been a term for at least five years.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It was a nothing burger. I was surprised that people
had never heard that before. But a nothing burger. That's
what it was. Not a cheeseburger, but a nothing burger.
They offered nothing, zero point zero, absolutely nothing. So I'm
leaving all them out. And so what I'm going to
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do is you'll hear from the CMPD person talking about
some initiatives that the business leaders in Uptown want to implement.
Some things they didn't go to great details, which I
don't know why, but they didn't. And by the way,
CMPD next week is having their third quarter statistics crime report.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We'll we'll have that for you next week. But again,
the first press conference you're gonna hear audio from is
going to be all about the first responders and how
all these units, some of the units came away as
far as far away as Lexington County down there in
Colombia to be part of this.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And then you know all the fire like from all agencies.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That you can imagine, they all came together from a big,
wide range area to participate in the active violence slash
active shooter situation. So you'll hear them describing what they're doing,
why they're here, why they came together, and then you'll
hear some of the questions like what's me. You won't
be able to hear the question, but you'll hear the answer.
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What's the difference between active shooter and active violence? How
many people? How many first responders total forty seven units
by how many are taking part of this three day
adventure or not adventure but program? And then what do
police people get out of it that's different from say
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ems and fire. So those are the three things that
I asked. So anyways, we're going to start playing some
of that audio and re return and I'll set it
all up for you once again, including that big nothing
that took place later this afternoon in uptown.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Welcome back to Breaking with Brett Jensen.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Okay, so here's the press conference that took place down
in Carolin's. At least they actually took a couple of questions.
And again you will not be able to hear the
questions because and I saw I just cut them out.
So you'll hear answers. He'll hear an answer or a
question from me asking the sheriff what does the police
department's side, law enforcement side gain out of these exercises,
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and how many people are involved and what's the difference
between active shooter and active violence situation. So this all
took place today again, forty seven agencies from across North
Carolina and South Carolina coming together for a three day
training seminar at Carowins.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Good morning, I'm Battalion Chief John Lipsack with the Charlotte
Fire Department. Thank you for joining us at Caro Wins
for this exercise with our UFCITE partners and put on
by Charlotte Mecklenburg Emergency Management Office. This is a large
scale exercise that brings together agencies from multiple departments, multiple counties,
and across state lines. It's a unique opportunity to combine
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two states in one exercise at this part since it
lies in two states. So I'll introduce our speakers now,
Division Chief White Graham, Director of Charlotte, Mecklenburg Emergency Management Office,
York County Sheriff Tony Breden, York County Emergency Manager Chuck Haynes,
and Fire Chief Reggie Johnson Charlotte Fire.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Department, Tony Breden, York County Sheriff's Office. And what people
don't realize is today is really just a culmination of
what he said the last year. And the best part
about that is the relationships that have been developed over
the last year. The communication Now there's contacts, and it's
pretty rare, like he said, to have dis large of
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an agency response with multi states and to have something
that is actually joined.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
By two states.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
So the operation was really just to build those relationships
and culminate. And this is, like he said, has been
going on for a year. It's been a lot of
work by our people, our Emergency Management Charlotte and all
of their representatives. So we're just extremely appreciated to be
able to participate. And more importantly, it just shows all
of our citizens how seriously we're taking protecting them and
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taking care of them and getting ourselves in a position
to handle something, which is why, you know, with the
real world events and the things we're seeing today, which
is why today was pretty applicable and why we focused
on it so strongly. About what we've seen, and the
success will be determined later on by the work we
put in today. So appreciate everybody being here. I'm grateful
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for everything, super appreciative of Charlotte and our emergency management
and all of our people and the deputies and the
officers that have put in a ton of time over
this last year getting ready for today, and then how
they've performed in there should make everybody feel really good
about what we'll be able to do when something happens.
So thank y'all so much.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Thanks sure, good morning.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
What a great opportunity to put out our skills that's
been developed over many years behind us is a culmination
of many hours and many financial resources in order to
gain the skill sets to deliver a successful emergency response.
Even though we are at Cara Wins, many players involved
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here they do not have a Caro Wins in their
county or city. But they're here to execute a skill
set that is applicable anywhere. As the sheriff said, our
partnership with Charlotte Mecklenburg couldn't be better. We are truly
friends and we've developed that every many years, and we
don't lose sight of our good friends that come to
our aid when we call to help, and vice versa.
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The key today and even though we do appreciate Caro Wins,
letting us be here and this is what a wonderful
venue it is. We have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of responders exchanging cell phones, numbers and their cards and
building relationships. So when this may be an actuality, maybe
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not here, maybe at a different site, those are going
to be executed in a friendly manner. And the key
to it all is for an accessible outcome to the event.
This is government at work preparedness. We ask families and
friends to talk what their preparedness strategy is for themselves
and their households. This is us showcasing that, and so
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this is the opportunity to encourage that. And so if
anything can be taken from the story, this is us
serving you, please help yourself as well. There's plenty of
wonderful websites ready. Dot gov is a great one that
your family can visit. Talk about communications, building a plan
and that sort of thing. We appreciate the gentlemen behind
us and the agencies involving their hours that they've spent
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dedicated to serving the citizen, and I will turn it
over to Chief Johnson at this time.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I want to thank each of y'all for coming. We
have a few minutes for questions, just one or two.
If anybody has one of any of the four members
that spoke yes, ma'am behind me, you can see. This
is what teamwork looks like in government, and lets all
agencies know that their partners down the road, across county
lines or across state lines are there with them and
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ready to act in a moment's notice when something like
this goes on.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
So, one of the things that we are utilizing is
simmunition training, which is they're using like real guns, but
they shoot these simmunition rounds and when you have that
kind of feedback, you know if you messed up when
you get shot.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So it is also some real.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Life training, but this is a reality of when you're
at a park like this, you'll have multiple agencies responding.
So some of the terminology you use and some of
the language that you use kind of crosses over in
the tactical aspect of it. And you know, we do
an extensive amount of active shooter training, active violent training
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as it is, and that this just gives us that
chance to culminate it with that real life scenario that
we can that we can put all that training throughout
the year to a test. Well, sometimes you may list
something as active violence because you don't know what they have.
You know, you could have multiple weapons, you could have
shooters that could start out shoot and go to other things,
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could start out with knives or sharp edged weapons that
turn into a shooter. So's that's just another it's just
another term that somebody comes up with. So they can
probably teach a class somewhere as what it is. Probably
it's you know what I'm saying. It doesn't matter what
they're doing in there, you have to stop them. So
whatever acronym you put on, it doesn't necessarily matter.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Well, we started yesterday today and then tomorrow will end.
And there's been a course of probably three to four
hundred first responders each day out here.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So there's the press conference.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Like I said, I took out the questions just because
you couldn't understand them the hero anyway, especially with the
helicopter flying over. But did you hear what he said
when he said the difference between an active active violence
and active shooter. It's probably just a term someone came
up with so they can teach a class. That's funny.
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That's actually funny. But here's the other thing that he said.
When I asked the question, what do the to the sheriff?
What do they gain? What does law enforcement gain out
of this? And you know, he said, we're using simulation bullets.
I think that's how I pronounced it correctly, as opposed
to like ammunition or simulation, like they combine the two words.
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And he said, you know you've messed up when you've
gotten shot. And I went, oh, so they're using some
It made me think that they must be using some
kind of real projectiles. I don't know if it's rubber
bullets or what, but something that or you know, even
paintball bullets, you know, paintballs at that matter. But you
know you've messed up when you've gotten shot, and you
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know in these simulations when you've gotten shot. So that's
pretty telling. So they're doing this for three days. They
did it, started it yesterday, doing it today, and then
you heard them say like three to four hundred people
each day. So nothing bad can come from what was
going on out there. Cohens Caroen wins and I applaud
them for trying to put this together and doing this
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actively and collectively.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
All right, when we come back.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The nothing burger that was uptown, we'll hear from that
when we return. Welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen
on this beautiful Wednesday night. Okay, so earlier this afternoon,
not this morning according to bil Ales. It was this
morning according to her, but no, it was this afternoon.
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The members up there were the Charlotte City Center partners
along with CMPD, three politicians and the city manager got
together and they spoke.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, apparently after.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
They spoke, may you know, members of the media were
maybe able to grab individuals of the press conference individually,
but they didn't take any They didn't feel questions collectively.
You were maybe able to grab someone you know, privately
or after the fact here or there. Right, Apparently that
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may have happened, but nothing collectively at a press conference. Nonetheless,
here's the statements of everyone said, and I'm getting I
cut out all the politicians, I cut out the city manager,
and I just left in the like the two most
important speakers.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
Thank you all for the opportunity to be here with you.
My name is David Longo, and I am the CEO
of CBI Workplace Solutions, the chair of the Charlotte Regional
Business Alliance, and I also have the honor of serving
on the Center City Partner Board. We have as we discussed,
we formed this Public Safety task Force about eleven weeks ago,
I believe yesterday, and the work of this task force
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is intense and focused work to make sure our entire
community is safe now when we scale, when we benchmark
our city, I don't think it's reasonable to look at
a tiny city in benchmark, but I think we need
to benchmark against the top fifty cities in this country,
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and we want to be at the top of that list.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
We're going to.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Be starting with a series of communication events like this,
and we're starting with CMPD and some of the actions
that they've been doing to work alongside all of us
to move the needle and make progress. CMPD has been
an amazing partner. They have been collaborative, supportive, and they
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do great work and they want to continue to improve things.
So with that, I'd like to welcome up Major Gene
Lim who serves as the area commander for a patrol
for this southeast which includes Central, East Way, Independence and
the Providence Divisions.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
A good afternoon everyone. It's exciting to be here representing
the City of Charlotte and CMPD in the matter of
public safety. Uptown Charlotte is the heart of our city.
It's a place where residents, businesses, visitors should thrive. It's
a destination because of the efforts of so many people,
a lot of people in this room to make it
a vibrant atmosphere home professional sports, large conventions, beautiful parks,
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and thriving businesses. But to maintain that vibrancy, we must
keep Uptown safe. The unique nature of Uptown is our
primary entertainment district, hosts major events and our highest density
of foot traffic, which means the challenges here are unique,
complex and require a dedicated, NonStop commitment. I can't talk
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about Uptown safety without mentioning partnerships we have. The organizations
like Charlotte Center city partners. Many of the folks in
this room that I'm speaking with today have worked tirelessly
for Uptown's well being. I firmly believe that the success
is found in working together building bridges we can all
walk across, and thank you for continued robust partnership to all. Additionally,
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our Central Division officers are out there in the community
day in and day out, whether it's on foot, in
patrol cars, on bicycles, and dual sport motorcycles, just to
name a few. I also want to thank them for
their dedicated commitment to keeping us safe. We're continuing existing
operations like Operation TRIO, and that stands for Targeted Response,
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for Innovation, for Intervention and outreach Uptown. Operation TRIO is
focused effort to reduce violent property crime in high traffic
areas it's working. We originally focused on areas like Spectrum
Center and the Charlotte Transportation Center, and as of July
twenty twenty four, just about a year ago, we added
all the parks Romer Bearden, First Ward and fourth Ward Park.
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It's critical to note that the Transit Center is currently
the leading location for arrest, followed closely by Rome or
Bearden Park. So we know where the issues are and
we're putting our officers there to meet them head on.
But a few simple adjustments are no longer enough. I'm
excited to share that we have launched the CROWN Initiative
CROWN stands for Center Cities, Restoration of Order and Wellness
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and Nonviolence in the fourth quarter of this year as
a direct response to residents and businesses who have clearly
stated that Uptown no longer feels safe to them. I
want to be clear that this feeling is unacceptable. This
is a focused, high impact effort to immediately shift the
environment and perception of our center city. You should expect
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elevated police presence and strict enforcement within a one half
mile radius of Trade Street and Trin Street, which is
the square. Disorder will not be tolerated. We're focusing on
quality of life crimes and ordinances that eroad safety, such
as aggressive panhandling, illegal street vending, public disruption crimes, if
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you will. Minor infractions are gateways to major crime, and
they will be addressed by the CNPD with zero hesitation.
I want to be clear to everybody that comes uptown
and seeks to create disorder, there will be consequences from
the CNPD if you do so. Our strategy is strict enforcement,
but it's balanced with compassion. We are not abandoning those
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in need. I don't want anyone in here to think
that strict enforcement means that we can't have a duty
of care to the public. A critical component of CROWN
is maintaining partnerships an organization like the Cares Team, roof Above,
Hearts of the Invisible. We're going to continue to work
with these resources for our underserved and unsheltered populations to
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provide vital, life changing resources. This is a collaborative effort
involving Central Division officers, CNPD, specialized units. I want to
thank the District Attorney here who's in attendance today, for
being a huge partner and getting this off the ground
and run and code Enforcement and Center City partners. The
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goal is simple and imperative to achieve an immediate, tangible
improvement in public perception of safety in Uptown, reduce overall crime,
and emphatically reinforce the fundamental mission of policing. Another initiative
we've launched recently in the fourth quarter is the Entertainment
District Unit or EDU. We have seen concerning trends violent
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crime near bars and nightlife. This is also unacceptable. We
owe our citizens visitors a vibrant nightlife with as much
safety measures as possible. The EDU is a highly focused,
specialized police unit dedicated entirely to making our night life
safer for everyone. The EDU will operate during peak night
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life hours. Their single focus is consistent high visibility policing
and in and around are entertainment districts and major event venues.
These officers will build direct relationships with security and bar owners.
They'll dress problems proactively before violence occurs, replacing officers where
and when the crime is most likely to happen. Crucially,
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the EU will support our already hard working current patrol
staff and initiatives. The creation of this unit is our
clear commitment to restoring order in public safety stronger in
the Center City than it was yesterday. Central Division just
one of thirteen patrol divisions, and at fourteen if you
count our Airport Division. Our officers are working diligently in
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all of these divisions to create a public safety environment
we can all be proud of. I don't want it
to become lost that we're just doing this work in
Center city. We are doing this across our patrol divisions,
so I hope when you see an officer you'll thank
them because I can guarantee, and being in this agency
for twenty six and a half years, it is harder
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to do this work in twenty twenty five than it
was in nineteen ninety nine when I came on. Next week,
CMPD will hold its third quarter press briefing where we'll
share crime stats throughout the city and give more overall
picture of crime not only in the center city, but
in the entire jurisdiction. And to close, I'd like to
mention that we have some exciting I believe the city
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manager prefaced it. We have some exciting additions to Central Division. Recently,
we were able to bring eight new officers out of
Recruit Class two hundred directly to Central Division. Last Friday,
we graduated eleven Lateral Entry officers, and that's officers that
are coming into CMPD with experience from different agencies. On
October seventeenth, we'll have a graduation for recruit class two
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oh one, and we are working diligently to seize another
class in the near future. So we're really excited to
continue this work I thank everyone for taking the time
to listen to all the work that's being done. I
thank everybody in the room.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
So again that's the press conferences, and again some things
were said, but not in great detail, so hopefully we'll
get more and more details. And then next week cmpd's
having their third quarter stats press conference. They were gloating
on how all the violent crime was down through the
first half. We'll see how that goes in the second
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in the third quarter, because we already know how that went.
Welcome back to breaking with Brett Jensen on this Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, so last night you heard me, Yeah, it
was last night. It takes me a couple of minutes
to figure out the days.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Last night I talked about the Carolina Panthers, right, Isaac,
That was yesterday, Caroline, But more importantly, the Carolina tar
Hills and Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Right, Well, there are all these new reports that.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
There's hope that they can actually now fire Bill Belichick
with cause. Why they have at least one assistant coach
has been suspended for very minor recruiting violations. So I
don't know if that's enough to fire him with cause
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I don't I sincerely doubt it, but because usually in
coaches contracts it would have to be like major violations, right,
not these, you know, literally tiny small, because every program
has a lot of tiny, tiny violations.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So because the rules are so insane, But apparently.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
There may be from reports that you see and stuff
you know everywhere else, that maybe Carolina knows of many
more violations, and that the rumor is because the North
Carolina owes Bill Belichick thirty million dollars fully guaranteed, and
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the chancellor and the board of trustees should either all
be fired or forced to work without pay for two
years for the malpractice they've inflicted upon that school. I
truly believe that you want to keep your job, you
work the next two years without a paycheck. How about them, apples,
This was your brilliant idea to hire a seventy three
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year old with a twenty four year old girlfriend. A
seventy three year old who everyone in the NFL hates,
got fired from his job, and no, not a no one,
No one would interview him. The Atlanta Falcons gave him
a courtesy interview and moved on from him so quickly
and made your head spind Think about all the openings,
including the Panthers. No one wanted to talk to Bill Belichick. Nobody,
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nobody could stand him. And now you're seeing all the
stuff come out there with Carolina Now, so now there
is belief or hope. I should say hope, because if
you can fire him with calls, that means you don't
have to pay him his.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thirty million. And now there's.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Speculation that Bill Belichick at to the end of the
year will say, you know what, I'm just gonna take
my million dollar payout and I'm just gonna sell off
into the sunset. It's not working for anybody. You can
just go off with your twenty four year old girlfriend
and enjoy life over the next five years until you die.
I look at him like he looks horrible, Like there
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is you would never believe that he and Pete Carroll,
the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, are about the
same age, same age. Pete Carroll looks like a million dollars.
Bill Belichick looks like Stone Grant, weathered, crusty stone. So anyways,
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Carolina fans, there's hope yet you may get rid of
Bill Belichick. Well, while you're at it, you might want
to try and get a new chancellor and a new board.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Because if these are the decisions.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
That they're making for the athletic department, God only knows
what they're doing to corrupt your children's minds. If this
is their if this is what their track record is,
God only knows what they're doing for the classrooms and
the professors. All right, everyone that's going to do it
for us tonight, look forward to doing this all over
(31:38):
again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
The TJ. Ritchie Show is coming up next and real quick.
By the way, don't forget.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
October Fest is this weekend, six o'clock on Saturday, and
then I in Vince Cochley will be six o'clock on Sunday.
You'll definitely want to stick around for that one, so
make sure you do that, and also go to WBT
dot com for all of the news and Bruis tickets
and information there as well. All Right, my name is
Brett Jensen, and you and listening to Breaking with Brit
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