Charlotte Mayoral Collections
Youth and Crime
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This 1965 letter to Mayor Brookshire expresses a Charlottean’s concern over rising youth crime in the city of Charlotte, especially in the area near Selwyn Rd. Citizens writing to the mayor shows their confidence in the mayor’s ability to change the way the city functioned. While he assured her that Charlotte was not alone in its instances of youth crime on the rise, Mayor Brookshire worked with the police to have extra policemen patrol the Selwyn Rd. area and attempt to get the issue near this particular woman’s house under control.
Below is the second part of the woman’s letter, as well as a newspaper clipping she mentions about the crime in the area:
No Loafers Allowed
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Keeping citizens of Charlotte feeling safe and comfortable was Mayor Redd’s primary objective when he issued this statement to the Charlotte News in 1928. Loafers had o been hanging about the square making patrons and business owners uncomfortable and causing business to decline.
Mayor Redd declared of the loafers “who hang around the drug store and make remarks about ladies as they ass ought to be put in jail if they refuse to get away.”
Clearly, the elimination of loafers in Charlotte was a matter of public welfare in the late ’20s.
Source: UNC Charlotte Manuscript Collection #249; Box 1, Folder 12
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