Exercise in futility

If you wanted any more evidence that the KC Crime Commission is nothing more than a worthless PR gesture endorsed by Country Club Kay in between highballs then look here: The city's crime commission examined domestic violence cases Tuesday.

KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that there was talk at the session about how poor women can come to feel so trapped by their poverty, their relationships and their children that they lash back.

At the meeting, police said that of the 12 domestic-violence homicides this year, four of the incidents have put women in jail.

Ugh. I guess that's really important work, but if you want to end domestic violence in KC the answer is simple. This city simply needs better access to chicken pot pies and training for local women on how to cook and serve them efficiently. It's hard to believe that leaders in KC are wasting time discussing all of the various PC examples of domestic violence when this city's murder rate continues to mount. There are steps that people have already taken to counter spousal abuse in KC, including domestic shelters, divorce lawyers and firearms training (my suggestion) whereas nobody has yet to come up with an effective strategy for curbing all of the random violence that's killing the (mostly Black) people of this town. If the crime commission was my wife, I'd say that a few spankings for this blunder were called for . . . Sadly, the ineffective leadership regarding the violence issue in KC is the biggest joke in town and it's not even that funny.