i served quite a number of years with charlotte mecklenburg police in fayeteville in 2013. as a result, an issue we called here at that time driving while black or driving while back, we had a police chief and a city manager who didn't see there was an issue or problem in fayeteville. as a result, the chief retired and the city manager was fired. a new city manager was brought in and one of his first responsibilities was to hire a police chief to hopefully repair some of the items or the issues that the police department faced with its community. so as a result of that, i took the reigns in early 2013 and quickly as i prepared to go to fayeteville do quite a bit of research and for an old country boy, i'm pretty data driven and i did all the research i could and data. in north carolina, we have 20 years of traffic stop data. we started that in 2000. we have about 20 million stops from across the state, and certainly some good database to draw on. certainly i looked at the work in fayeteville. as i arrived, i did one thing and that was to meet with everyone and listen. so, f

i served quite a number of years with charlotte mecklenburg police in fayeteville in 2013.s a result, an issue we called here at that time driving while black or driving while back, we had a police chief and a city manager who didn't see there was an issue or problem in fayeteville. as a result, the chief retired and the city manager was fired. a new city manager was brought in and one of his first responsibilities was to hire a police chief to hopefully repair some of the items or the issues that the police department faced with its community. so as a result of that, i took the reigns in early 2013 and quickly as i prepared to go to fayeteville do quite a bit of research and for an old country boy, i'm pretty data driven and i did all the research i could and data. in north carolina, we have 20 years of traffic stop data. we started that in 2000. we have about 20 million stops from across the state, and certainly some good database to draw on. certainly i looked at the work in fayeteville. as i arrived, i did one thing and that was to meet with everyone and listen. so, fro

we did have them in charlotte and also the speed cameras in charlotte while i was in charlotte, mecklenburg police and both of those went away. i'm a big believer in the corridor cameras on the high impact locations and tells a great story and again being able to send out a nice citation with a tag number attached to it that says we appreciate you visiting our city, but we are sending you something to remember us by. i think it's very helpful in folks understanding that they can't run stoplights, they can't run stop signs and speed. i'm a big believer and the technology in allowing the officers to better engage in the things that are most important in crime fighting in a city. >> thank you very much, chief. >> do you have anymore questions? >> thank you, chief. i'm recoverying from knee surgery myself. thank you very much for this information. i want clarification that your deprioritizing a stop or not moving violations, they were strictly mechanical, is that correct? >> you are correct, commissioner. but i would tell you that instead of deprioritizing i wanted to concentrate on those thing