The LE Tower Has Been There For A While
[QUOTE=MyCity;3884070]I went hunting yesterday in the Woodlawn area and I saw GIANT freaking LEO tower posted in the Gentlemen's Club area. If you pass the Gentlemen's Club and keep going straight down, it will be posted across from the two hotels on the left hand side. You can't miss it! I bailed immediately as my spider sense started to tingle. DO NOT hunt in an area when the block is hot. You never know who is an undercover trying to get charges dropped by doing stings for LEO. Woodlawn is on absolute fire. Do not risk being caught in a sting op! You have been warned![/QUOTE]That tower has been out there for quite some time now, and from what I can tell, people just do their business elsewhere and don't worry about the tower too much. As for their being undercovers out there, that's always a risk in a city that has LE budget as large as Charlotte's, but so far I have not seen any evidence of that there as I have in other SW areas. The main LE risk for the Woodlawn area would appear to be random patrols, and them coming out in response to any complaints they receive from anyone in the community.
I know the owner of the steakhouse on Woodlawn has made a big fuss about the SWs in the past, and suspect the restaurants behind his may have done the same. At one point in the past, I believe they were organizing together, and signing a petition for LE to take more action against the SWs. So if any of them saw anything going on near their businesses, I believe they would likely call LEO to come out.
I've also seen what might be an off duty LEO at the Bojangles a number of times. He wasn't wearing a blue CMPD uniform. He was wearing one of the brown shirt uniforms that typically only the LEOs that work at the jails, and courthouse wear. What you might call a Sheriff's dept uniform. It was unclear if he was there just to get lunch, and it was just coincidental I've seen him over there a few times whenever I passed through, or if he was hired by Bojangles as an off duty LEO to provide them with security. But whatever the case may be, I just don't see the LE tower as being the biggest thing to be concerned about over there if you stay away from it. I'd consider it random patrols, or responses to calls that would be the greatest LE related risk for that area.