CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Three North Carolina Republicans say they are demanding that NC Governor Josh Stein send the National Guard to Charlotte, while Gov. Stein maintains local law enforcement is the best equipped to tackle local crime.

On Wednesday, Representatives Mark Harris (NC-08), Pat Harrigan (NC-10), and Chuck Edwards (NC-11) sent a letter to the governor asking for the State National Guard to be deployed in Charlotte to help address violence in the Queen City.

This letter comes after a request from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police, also asking for a local Guard deployment.

“The amount of crime and the amount of issues that are going on, it is not safe to police our streets with the staffing that we have,” Dan Redford, president of the local FOP, told

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