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Simple, go on the CMPD website and select "notify me" on the left hand side of the screen
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/CMPD/home.htm?header=www%2ecmpd%2eorg - broken link)
Thanks. I was looking at another section of the notify me part and it had said "up to date information about the website" and not necessarily crime alerts.
We get a ton of people knocking on our door. It is so weird and annoying. Even a ton of kids without their parents I still don't get the door unelss I see a parent. We opened it once and it was three little kids askinf for money for some beauty pagent and put it this way the definitely were not part of a pagent.
In Concord we got tons of kids selling candy, and we never bought. One of neighbors would buy from all of them and half the time they never came back and delivered. This is why I don't buy from any of them, even some I'm sure who are legit and it's also probably why parents are at work selling their kids' fundraising stuff.
We also got a lot of religious solicitors coming to ask us if we know our Lord. Now my grandfather was a Baptist minister and he was the most kind, nonjudgemental man I ever knew. But I still find the religious solicitors highly annoying. We had SO many, almost every weekend. They won't take no for an answer, we'd have to shut the door on them or just not open. A group of Jehovah's Witness caugh me off guard when I was alone unloading my infant from the car. I didn't like being approached by a group of people this way, while trying to get my baby into the house and it was obvious. I wonder if they EVER approach someone unsolicited and win them over?
We also got vacuum cleaner, cable tv, and encyclopedia salesmen. Do people still buy home encyclopedias, do they even still make them in the Internet age?? But my point is, with all the criminal going around these days it's a wonder cities just don't put ordinances into affect about no soliciting in the communities, period. The very last people to come to our home before we moved were neighbors petitioning for a neighborhood watch!
In Concord we got tons of kids selling candy, and we never bought. One of neighbors would buy from all of them and half the time they never came back and delivered. This is why I don't buy from any of them, even some I'm sure who are legit and it's also probably why parents are at work selling their kids' fundraising stuff.
We also got a lot of religious solicitors coming to ask us if we know our Lord. Now my grandfather was a Baptist minister and he was the most kind, nonjudgemental man I ever knew. But I still find the religious solicitors highly annoying. We had SO many, almost every weekend. They won't take no for an answer, we'd have to shut the door on them or just not open. A group of Jehovah's Witness caugh me off guard when I was alone unloading my infant from the car. I didn't like being approached by a group of people this way, while trying to get my baby into the house and it was obvious. I wonder if they EVER approach someone unsolicited and win them over?
We also got vacuum cleaner, cable tv, and encyclopedia salesmen. Do people still buy home encyclopedias, do they even still make them in the Internet age?? But my point is, with all the criminal going around these days it's a wonder cities just don't put ordinances into affect about no soliciting in the communities, period. The very last people to come to our home before we moved were neighbors petitioning for a neighborhood watch!
Yes, some cities do have ordinances prohibiting solicitors in their neighborhoods. I lived in one such city and it was wonderful. Every year, the police department made little signs available that we could put on our front storm doors or in our windows. They cited the city ordinance that states no solicitation is allowed w/in the city limits.
I called the city of Charlotte when I moved here and asked about this. I was told that no one wanted to ban soliciting - there were too many people who objected to banning solicitation. I thought - "who says?"
If we want such an ordinance, I say . . . why not petition the city to enact one? It is as simple as that.
Where I lived b/f, all we had to do was pick up the phone and call the police . . . and they would come and issue a citation to anyone soliciting.
I suspect the reason there is no such ordinance here is b/c no one wants to have to take the time to enforce it. Just my opinion, of course.
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Wonder what would happen . . . if someone started such a petition - making it illegal for anyone to solicit on private property w/in the city - or even - within the entire county?
Would anyone else here be interested in that? If I knew how to set up a poll, I would - see how much interest there is in such an ordinance - and we could research it, find out how to get names and submit it to the proper governing body.
Wonder what would happen . . . if someone started such a petition - making it illegal for anyone to solicit on private property w/in the city - or even - within the entire county?
Would anyone else here be interested in that? If I knew how to set up a poll, I would - see how much interest there is in such an ordinance - and we could research it, find out how to get names and submit it to the proper governing body.
Anyone have ideas?
I'm interested. Let me know if you decide to start a petition.
when we first moved to Charlotte, I opened the door to quite a few people. I grew up in the inner city (also known as "tha hood" and/or "the ghetto") and Charlotte felt like Mayberry.
That got old after I watched the news for several months.
I've had black people and white knock at my door under suspicious pretenses.
One night my husband opened the door for a young woman wearing a BellSouth tee shirt (which could have been obtained at a thrift store).
She said there were reports of "unusually high phone bills" in our area and BellSouth had sent her out to investigate.
I called BellSouth while she was at the door and they said no, they didn't send her. I was also told that they don't send people out for reasons such as the one she claimed.
I also called 311 to report it (after I yelled to my husband from the bedroom to slam the door in her lying face) and the woman who answered my call said someone had knocked at her door the night before claiming to be from BellSouth as well.
As I understand it, a gun permit is $5 to any resident of Mecklenburg County who can pass the criminal background check (no felonies).
Sometimes citizens are better off not waiting for the police when it comes to protecting their own lives.
As for continuing to answer/open the door for unknown entities, to each his own...
I'm interested. Let me know if you decide to start a petition.
Yes, if anyone starts a petition, I'll sign as well. Just don't knock on my door with it.
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Now my grandfather was a Baptist minister and he was the most kind, nonjudgemental man I ever knew. But I still find the religious solicitors highly annoying. We had SO many, almost every weekend. They won't take no for an answer, we'd have to shut the door on them or just not open. A group of Jehovah's Witness caugh me off guard when I was alone unloading my infant from the car. I didn't like being approached by a group of people this way, while trying to get my baby into the house and it was obvious. I wonder if they EVER approach someone unsolicited and win them over?
Do people still buy home encyclopedias, do they even still make them in the Internet age?? But my point is, with all the criminal going around these days it's a wonder cities just don't put ordinances into affect about no soliciting in the communities, period. The very last people to come to our home before we moved were neighbors petitioning for a neighborhood watch!
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