EveryBlock Charlotte

Based on my day job, I receive dozens of email messages per day with super-specific and sometimes inane content relating to 11 cities across the country. I love that. Today I received a remarkable email from MecklenburgNewsNow@mecklenburgcountync.gov. It had a simple subject line: "Mecklenburg County Budget Cuts Effective Immediately". And it had a remarkable attachment–…

Here’s some info from our friends at CDOT: East Fifth Street between College St and Brevard St, due to chiller work on Ritz/BOA construction project :  January 23 – 26, 2009 — Between College St and Brevard St at 11:00 pm on 1/23/09— Due to chiller work on Ritz/BOA construction project— Detour left on College…

Via email from the CMPD: Shortly before 7:30 p.m. on January 8, 2009 Eastway Division officers responded to a 911 call for service in reference to an armed robbery from person at 1705 Eastcrest Dr.  The victim was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by two black male suspects; who fled the scene in a stolen…

Here's an email from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Eastway Division: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Homicide Detectives are currently investigating a homicide at 2845 Attaberry Drive.  The incident occurred on Sunday, January 04, 2009 at 3:39 a.m., in the Eastway Division. Eastway Division officers responded to a call for service in reference to shots being fired in…

Here's some text from an email I received from Providence Division of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. It's interesting because we have records for both of the referenced incidents on EveryBlock (see links, which are my own). The narrative below expands significantly on what was published to the CMPD's Significant Event Log, which is indexed on…