Charlotte's violent crimes, including the murder of a young woman on transit and a 4-year-old shot dead, are scaring away people relocating for jobs. The speaker says ineffective local leadership and misused tax dollars have failed to address crime, damaging both safety and the real estate market.
Now Charlotte's been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. None of it is making any of us proud because it primarily revolves around a young lady getting slaughtered on our public transportation, or it's about the number of homicides happening in the city, the death of a 4-year-old by getting shot. And all of those incidences around crime impact real estate. Because y'all, I get phone calls from people that are relocating to this area for jobs and they say, what the heck's going on? And I have to say, we used to be a great city. I'm so sorry for what you seen in the news. Because we have leadership that is not dealing with crime issues. We have leadership that is taking tax dollars and not using them for the intended purposes because there's always an extra hand in the kitty, and y'all know how this works.
