Posted on 11/05/2025 2:45:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Citing frustrations with persistent crime, a trio of North Carolina lawmakers is urging Democratic Gov. Josh Stein to deploy the National Guard in Charlotte, saying the state of the city has become "increasingly dire."
"Recently, the city faced eight homicides in seven days. The murder rate in uptown Charlotte is now 200% higher than it was a year ago," the letter states. "According to the Fraternal Order of Police, aggravated assaults involving knives or guns have risen from 86 in 2024 to 111 in 2025, and personal strong-arm robberies have increased from 26 to 31 in the same period."
Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., one of the letter’s authors, said the request doesn’t just come from the state’s congressional delegation.
"This is not just my idea. This is the Fraternal Order of Police that had come, saying that they believed this is important and asking the governor and mayor to step up and do it," Harris said, alluding to a similar letter published by Charlotte-Mecklenburg law enforcement earlier this year.
The letter’s three signatories, Harris, Rep. Pat Harrigan and Rep. Chuck Edwards, all represent the Charlotte area.
The North Carolina letter comes as President Donald Trump has used the National Guard to bring attention to crime in cities like Washington, D.C., Memphis, Chicago and others. So far, the administration has deployed the National Guard to six urban areas and floated deployments in another five — even as courts weigh the use of federal troops to address domestic crime.
The letter from the North Carolina lawmakers pointed to those deployments as a template for success.
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Charlotte just elected a far left Democrat. Let it burn down to the ground.
You think we can just abandon them?
I endorse full leftist heat on every Blue-Zoo. Let em burn, bleed, urinate from judicial robes, starve, and lecture us.
Just ask your struggling local county sheriff. There are folks that will talk if you ask the right questions.
Corrupt yes.
But at the same time we're not living in those blue cities.
Yes. Until the Democrats and those who vote for them feel the consequences of their actions, they won’t change. Let it burn, and out of the embers will rise a more informed electorate.
I live in a Blue-Zoo. The worst of the worst.
So Charlotte, you're going to be on hold a while, but your call is important to us. Please hold.
Democrats like laying in their excrement. Let it go.
Charlotte? Let it burn. Sharon Amity needs to be wiped.
The city of Charlotte just gave yet another term to Mayor Murder. They like crime; they oppose cops. Let the city sink even lower.
It’s the far left judicial system in these cities that’s the problem.
During he 2016 Charlotte Riots, my daughter had Duke Energy as a client. Her employer had to extract her from a first floor condo in the middle of the night. Charlotte can flip to the dark side quickly.
Good one! A big smile
Did be ever order the national guard to western NC for the hurricane relief?
It will note all the cities that have with democrat control.
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