Top 10 Spots for CMPD Service Calls

CHARLOTTE, NC — WCCB has learned the top 10 places CMPD officers were called to over the past 30 days.

535 calls, with more than 700 hours of officer service time. It’s a list that includes some familiar places, and a surprise or two.

They are the places CMPD was called to most often.

CMC Main on Blythe Boulevard had 162 calls for service.

The DSS mental health facility on Billingsley Road had 65.

CMC University on North Tryon had 61 calls.

“A lot of those calls, it might be mental health patients that we’re picking them up from there, and we’re bringing them over to Billingsley Road,” says CMPD Officer John Frisk, with the Crime Prevention Unit. “Those are very common calls for service.”

This list includes some places you may not think of off the top of your head. We’re next to Romare Bearden Park and the Knights baseball stadium in Uptown. This is 255 Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard; 41 calls for service from CMPD last month. Most of those larceny from the convenience store, or from cars in the parking garage.

“I notice a lot of them after like about five o’clock on their bikes,” says Nancy Radloff.

Radloff feels safe living in Uptown. She sees officers patrolling the area, but also sees lots of people who don’t live there hanging around.

“I live right here,” she says. “Walk home after the bars at night. So I feel safe. I mean you always have them out here though.”

The Southpark commercial area on Sharon Road had 37 calls last month.

The area around the Economy Inn on Tom Hunter Road had 36.

Same number for the 7-Eleven on Wendover Road in Grier Heights.

Officer Frisk says it’s often people who have been arrested for larceny, literally returning to the scene of the crime.

“They’re going to be banned from that location,” says Frisk. “So then it turns into a second degree trespass. If they’re a repeat offender, a lot of times they’ll get arrested for second degree trespass.”

And shopping and entertainment centers are hot spots too.

Whitehall Commons on South Tryon had 33 calls.

The Epicentre in Uptown had 33 as well.

And CMPD was called out to Northlake Mall 31 times last month.

“Any mall – Southpark Mall, Northlake Mall – there’s going to be a lot of cars there and people know that’s a crime of opportunity,” says Frisk.

The CMPD repeat calls for service numbers are from a period covering late-June to mid-July.