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Charlotte officials have talked up police statistics showing crime is trending downward across the city. But the public isn’t buying it, especially after a 23-year-old commuter was stabbed to death on a light rail train.

For many residents and conservative leaders, the stabbing death highlights what they see as a dangerous disconnect between statistics and reality on the streets.

"The progressive policies seem to be in a reactive posture — something bad happens, and then they throw a Band-Aid on it," Chris Swecker, a former chair of the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission who worked for the FBI, told Fox News Digital. "They don’t draw the connection between their policies, which are very pro-crime and anti-victim, a

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