- l One of the nation’s highest homicide rates above Chicago, Memphis & Atlanta.
- State’s 3rd largest city and one of the state’s largest economies.
l State’s largest African American populated city. - North Charleston is 77 square miles, primarily due to annexation growth.
- $115,410,157.00 Budget for 2016-2017
- $74,761,931 Payroll cost (only about $10 million for the 62% of African Americans and other Minorities).
- $67,000,000.00 in Contract awards (only about $2 million for African Americans and other Minorities).
- $34,097,856.00 Police Dept. Budget (only 18% goes to African Americans and other Minority Workers).
- A recent Public Safety & Justice article by Mike Maciag sited North Charleston as one of the nations worst cities for minority representation on the police force.
- $21,052,275.00 Fire Dept. Budget (only 23% goes to African Americans and other Minority Workers). North Charleston’s own study says nepotism, cronyism, and regimenting is the cause of the huge disparities within the departments.
- $18,723,176.00 for the Special Project’s budget with greater than 99% going to white contractors. Ironically, the Director of Special Projects is black.
- $1,317,683.00 Municipal Court Budget. The primary function is to collect unfair fines for code enforcement tickets, traffic ticket fines, and to help create a 73% African American prison population on Leeds Avenue in order to generate lucrative goods and service contracts which African Americans do not receive.
- Police Department stops are disproportionately African Americans. Many without just cause.
- City demographics are 50% African American, 38% White, 12% Asian, Hispanic and others.
- 2015 voting participation was 53% African American, 45% White, and 2% other. Still, African Americans did not elect a Mayor who is committed to economically empowering them. Why did they not?
- State’s fastest growing city for gentrification.
- Largest group of African American voters in the state.
- A city where African Americans outvoted all other races combined with 53% of all votes.
- A city where African Americans are denied over $320 million in economic impact yearly and over 1 billion in economic impact every four years from the city’s budget alone.
- North Charleston is a city with a candidate who can be fair to all races, John Singletary.
- A city with John Singletary who opened the public’s eyes in 2015 and who, with your help, in 2023 will bring victory and success to the community.
