CMPD recruits are shown during a class video before the recruits were sworn in as officers in 2014. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department remains short of officers — a problem its spokeswoman ...

Incoming Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Estella Patterson said one of her goals is to fill all vacancies at the department. While she succeeded as the chief of the Raleigh Police Department in ...

Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she ...

EVERETT — The 911 calls pile up, backup is often scarce and rookie Everett Police officer Ruben Oviedo is learning fast what it means to patrol an understaffed city. From 5 p.m. to 5 a.m., about three ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department remains short of officers — a problem its spokeswoman says the department is trying to fix as the city’s population grows and homicide cases continue to ...