CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It has been nine months since the Queen City hosted the Democratic National Convention.
The federal government released a report on how the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department used a $50 million grant to keep the peace at the event.
Channel 9 has obtained the Justice Department's after-action report from the DNC.
The report was 70 pages long.
The Justice Department said CMPD did well, but there is always room for improvement.
Some of the examples for improvement it gave was:
• The Secret Service and CMPD had different ways to conduct checkpoints, which led to bottlenecks.
• DNC organizers didn't have vehicles for physically challenged delegates.
• Airport officials had people and cones to direct traffic, which led to backups.
• Twenty-three police on horseback where "impressive" but not worth it.
• CMPD could have used more officers inside secure areas to arrest people for regular crimes because Secret Service agents were not responsible for that kind of policing.
• Law enforcement agencies should have stuck to a more uniform terminology over the radio.
• If there was a medical crisis, phone systems would not have been able to handle that volume of outgoing and incoming calls.
When it came to officers, there were 126 law enforcement agencies, roughly 5,000 officers from 11 states and D.C.
Officers spent $1.5 million on housing and $1 million on food alone. They bought 70,000 meals for the officers, including box lunches, granola bars and Gatorade.