Kimberly Owens
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582 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 24 Aug
Kimberly Owens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So thank you for that indulgence.
Kimberly?
Thank you, Mayor.
I wanted to just lift up something that I had the great experience of doing on Friday night.
I did a ride-along on the third shift Eastway Division police force and came away just terrifically impressed with our CMPD, very appreciative of the community engagement that I saw out of these officers.
And I will remark that
Obviously, you can't predict what will happen, but they had just taken into custody the gentleman who had stabbed someone on the light rail and were interrogating him in an adjacent room.
And the professionalism that these folks showed in the moment was just really powerful because I appreciate, as this community and this council appreciates, that there's a heightened focus and that we've already had additional national and state level interest in what happens on our light rail.
And I think that that is not taken lightly.
I will encourage anyone who does have strong feelings, anybody who has got a lot of social media presence and feels the need to comment repeatedly on the state of crime in Charlotte, that they do take a look at this ride along process.
Obviously, not everyone
can do it.
I think you need to meet some background check requirements, but it is a process that does enable you to spend a portion of time with our police officers.
Probably during the 10-hour shift, I will say the most impactful thing that I experienced was just some real conversation with humans who are just trying to do that next right thing for our city and some conversation about the importance of them feeling community support
for the work that they are doing, the importance of perhaps reaching out to some of our DAs and some of our Sheriff's Office folks who can perhaps tweak some of the ways that they interact with the police to save them, sometimes sitting around and waiting, just some things that I think are soft things that we can do that I'd love to work with folks to make a little bit easier on our police.
And then finally, I'll just call out particularly two different officers who had the great patience to sit with me for 10 hours and answer questions.
And I'm going to call out Officers Grant and Griffiths, both of whom were about my children's ages and got to, like I said, experience so many questions from me about the good work that they're doing.
So I would commend this opportunity to any of you who have an interest.
But again, to our community, I would just ask that you lean in and know your resources, and you may well come away with a very different sense of the safety of our great city, having experienced it at the hands of our third shift police officers.
So thank you.
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