Police

Since 2020, large public safety training centers have been cropping up around the country. Last summer, Central Piedmont Community College announced plans to build a facility in Matthews to provide training for police, fire and Medic personnel. These projects have faced opposition nationally and locally.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings and other officers joined activists and representatives of the local NAACP for a march through uptown Charlotte in response to the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.

Four people in a pickup truck were killed Tuesday in a fiery car wreck on I-85 South.

A child died from a gunshot wound inside a home in Gaston County on Tuesday afternoon. The parents and another man living in the house have been charged.

Online rumors cause CMPD to put out a bulletin about recent deaths in the Charlotte area.

With the first week of classes underway in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, we sit down with CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings to discuss the record number of guns found on CMS campuses the last academic year and the effectiveness of body scanners in middle and high schools, as well as the slight uptick of crime throughout Charlotte.

Public health data experts have a new way to calculate the underreporting of people killed by police. Criminologists call the results "interesting" but are reserving judgment on the accuracy.

About 100 people protested late Wednesday outside a police headquarters in South Carolina, several hours after a video of officers in Rock Hill wrestling and throwing punches during two arrests was posted to Facebook.

Since late 2019, federal law has required states to collect details on deaths during interactions with law enforcement. North Carolina officials have again refused to release information on the deaths of people who died in custody.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Police have started a new campaign to recruit officers, just as existing officers call for higher pay and other big city departments…