All the big Kansas City Names will be in the house . . .
Mayor Sly James is gonna talk about his "vision" but I'm hoping he'll spend more time detailing a plan.
Jackson County Prosecutor "Mean" Jean Peters-Baker will be the house and she's not scared of The Vatican or cleaning up her office . . . So it'll be worth hearing what she has to say.
KCMO School (Interim) Superintendent Steven Green would do us all a favor by staying quiet. But the institution he's taking care of is A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Councilman and Pastor Brooks seems to have called the meeting that will hopefully earn a bit more publicity before tomorrow . . .
Check the presser:
Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Crime
Friday, October 21, 2011
5:30 pm until 7 pm
Robert J. Mohart Center
3200 Wayne
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Fifth District Councilman Michael Brooks invites all residents of Kansas City to participate in a town hall forum on Friday, Oct. 21 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Robert J. Mohart Center, 3200 Wayne Ave. The forum will discuss local crime and violence, along with ways the community can get involved in decreasing it.
During the town hall, guest speaker Mayor Sly James will describe his vision to reduce violent crime in Kansas City, Mo. Also on the discussion panel are; KC Missouri Police Chief Darryl Forte; Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters-Baker; KCMO School Superintendent Steven Green; Pastor Ronald Lindsay, Concord Fortress of Hope Church; Ms. Margaret May, Ivanhoe Neighborhood; Ms. Becky Forest, Townfork Creek neighborhood
For more information about this town hall forum or media inquiries, please contact Tonia Titus, aide to Councilman Brooks, at 816-513-6521.
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LOL.
ReplyDeleteI thought we had a Police Department to fight crime.
What happen to the BOPC reporting to the State instead of the City?
Crime has reached a level so poor that City Hall is stepping in. Time for Local Control of the PD.
1. Let the KCPD be cops, not revenue raisers from traffic tickets.
ReplyDelete2. Stop looking the other way because its just theft or they are juveniles. Arrest law breakers, whatever age.
3. Target those you know are criminals. It doesn't take much time to see them driving drunk, carrying a weapon or selling drugs. Whatever it takes to get them off the street.
4. Follow up with prosecution and incarceration. Some criminals just need ten to twenty consecutive years in prison to completely break them.
5. For the community - quit playing the victim/race card. Cleaning up won't be easy but it will be worth it.
This stuff is stupid.
ReplyDeleteThere is no need for any meetings.
Start aggressively patrolling the high-crime areas, hold traffic stops every night, etc.
Quit talking, Kansas City.
Another useless talking heads meeting.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a meeting about what we should do,
Then nothing will happen.
Like always.
"I care nothing for principles -- they are lumber and rubbish. What concerns our happiness and welfare, as affectable by our fellow men, is conduct. 'Principles, not men,' is a rogue's cry; rascality's counsel to stupidity, the noise of the duper duping on his dupe. He shouts it most loudly and with the keenest sense of its advantage who most desires inattention to his own conduct, or to that forecast of it, his character. As to sin, that has an abundance of expounders and is already universally known to be wicked. What more can be said about it, and why go on repeating that? The thing is a trifle word worn, whereas the sinner cometh up as a flower every day, fresh, ingenuous and inviting. Sin is not at all dangerous to society; what does all the mischief is the sinner. Crime has no arms to thrust into the public treasury and the private; no hands with which to cut a throat; no tongue to wreck a reputation withal. I would no more attack it than I would attack an isosceles triangle, or Hume's 'phantasm floating in a void.' My chosen enemy must have something that has a skin for my switch, a head for my cudgel - something that can smart and ache. I have no quarrel with abstractions; so far as I know they are all good citizens." Ambrose Bierce
ReplyDeleteThe meeting will be how we will fight crime in Kansas City ....... someday.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that 5th district council rep Pastor Brooks calls a meeting in the 3rd district. Where are the 3rd district reps????
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is wrong with him, calling a meeting on a Friday night? Event planning 101 would tell him that you don't hold something like this at 5:30 on a Friday evening. A cocktail reception, maybe. A tired repetition of talking heads going on about crime, not so much. I'll be surprised if 20 people are there.
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