NC lawmakers demand answers from Charlotte after light rail stabbings

\*\*The specifics on what the Committee wants\*\*

Communications, including emails, messaging, or any other form of correspondence, and all documents, reports, memos, other written materials, or links to such, from January 1, 2020, to the present, regarding the following subjects:

1. The August 22, 2025, train stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, and the December 8, 2025, train stabbing of Kenyan Dobbie.

2. The perceived or actual increase in crime, including violent crime and crimes occurring on public transit.

3. Initiatives aimed at reducing criminal arrests, charges, and sentencing, or any other effort to “reimagine policing.”

4. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), specifically as it relates to security staffing, public safety, and criminal incidents.

5. Efforts and ability to recruit, retain, and staff law enforcement officers and fill law enforcement vacancies.

6. Efforts to fund, defund, reallocate, or reduce discretionary funding of law enforcement.

7. Policies or practices concerning cooperation, or non-cooperation, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) generally, and with ICE’s presence in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

8. All diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, policies, implementations, and related funding.

9. Strategic plans, policies, and procedures.

Please submit electronically, in machine-readable format such as .xlsx or .csv, any data from January 1, 2015, to the present regarding the following subjects:

1. The perceived or actual increase in any crime, including violent crime and crimes occurring on public transit.

2. The number of sworn and unsworn law enforcement officers and other employees, applications received, and vacant positions, as of January 1 each year, including January 1, 2026.

3. Jail capacity and utilization.

4. Efforts and ability to recruit, retain, and staff law enforcement officers and fill law enforcement vacancies.

5. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) related employee positions and any funding tied to those positions.

6. Budgeted expenditures through FY2026 and actual expenditures through the most recent data available by funding source and specific purpose. For past years, please also provide machine-readable audited financials.