RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Gov. Josh Stein is pushing lawmakers to better fund law enforcement agencies across North Carolina when they come back to Raleigh next week.

"I sent a letter to the leaders of the General Assembly urging them to fund three key investments immediately," Stein said.

That first investment is a major one. The governor wants the General Assembly to fund his $195 million public safety package.

"It provides pay raises and recruitment and retention bonuses for state and local law enforcement officers, increases co responder teams, defends North Carolina's communities from community and school based violence," Stein said.

While he's focusing heavily on public safety in light of the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, Stein asserted the Genera

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