TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY AIM4PEACE RIDE COMING SOON!!!
Right now Kansas City has counted 49 murders this year. The KC Proper homicide count stands pretty much where it has been over the past five years.
Aim4Peace is a group funded by City Hall that claims to have reduced the number.
Over the years TKC TIPSTERS have told us about exorbitant budgets for the group along with the fact that a great deal of their money is spent on food . . .
AND NOW WE'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW AN AIM4PEACE BIKE RALLY WILL HELP REDUCE KANSAS CITY HOMICIDES?!?!?
Check the recent presser and please tell me if there's some answer to my question about the effectiveness of this motorcycle rally in reducing local crime . . .
City's Aim4Peace program hosts Peace Ride to stop violence
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department's Aim4Peace program has partnered with the Redline Riders Motorcycle Club to present the Third Annual Peace Ride on Sunday, July 15 from noon to 4 p.m. The event will be at the Blue Valley Park in the Main Shelter, 2301 Topping Ave.
"The Third Annual Peace Ride is an opportunity for residents to join the historic biker associations in our ride for peace through our streets," said Chris Pace, president of the Redline Riders Motorcycle Club. Pace encourages residents to join the movement to stop the shooting and sign a Commitment to Peace agreement, which will be made available at the event.
The Peace Ride begins at noon with fun for the family, vendors from the community and plenty of hot rod bikes. At 1 p.m. the bikers will take off on the 24-mile ride through various parts of Kansas City. When the bikers return from the ride at approximately 2 p.m., presenters and attendees will discuss the history of African American motorcycle clubs and their part in the peace movement to stop the homicides.
Gift certificates and other items donated by area motorcycle dealerships will be given away to Peace Ride participants and guests.
For more information about this event, call Aim4Peace at 816-513-7902 or email aim4peace@kcmo.org. More information on the Aim4Peace program may be found online at www.kcmo.org/aim4peace or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aim4peace.
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wear a helmet.
N-word Coward will be there giving mustache rides to the bikers.
If you check Redline Riders FB page, you'll see a photo of many of the smiling, happy members- no fewer Han half a dozen flashing gang signs.
A great organization to partner with.
Why is the city spending $600,000 a year for an organization that has rallies, picnics, and now motorcycle events that volunteers could put on for free.
If this isn't a group desperately looking for something to do and get some PR, I don't know what is.
And you wonder why KCMO is one of the most dangerous cities in the country?
Give the fuckin money to Alonzo to hand out for tips.
There will be a straight line reference from the cash to crimes solved.
I don't get teh picture.
Are those golf clubs on Beyonce's chest?
Looks like a putter and a driver.
I'd like ta drive her..., ok, that was bad, sorry.
Seriously - I looked at their FB page and some of their albums. Most all of the pics showing members also show gang signs. Members with nicknames like Seargant Mufucka and the like.
Seriously. This is what this worthless organization is doing with tax dollars? Where's the outrage? Oh, nobody wants to be called a RACIST. GASP!!!!!!!
Shut these idiot sons a bitches down for cryin out loud and use the $600-large to fill potholes and fix infrastructure in the urban core. A 24 mile ride? 24 miles? Oh - mebbe its a 24 mile ride through 64129 and 64130.
Lastly - did anyone else notice on their FB page that it pinpointed their location as 27 & Olive - a block away from the new EPD station. Mebbe these RedLine Ryders are part of ol John "Modest" Miles gang. OOP?
City Health Director Rex Archer lives in a different universe from reality.
The program only survives because Archer protects it in the health fund and not general fund where it could be used for a variety of other uses in the urban core. They employ numerous people and they all show up at budget hearings with their ministers. In the meantime that $600,000 could be used to fund anti crime programs by the PD and Prosecutor. Or for indigent health care. This is a shame.
Fucking grifters... get the fuck off the dole...they heven't prevented one fucking murder, let me repeat it, not one fucking murder for $600,000.00..the black on black crime keeps 'em in business...tell the ministers and the grifters to go fuck themselves!
That's bullshit,you were looking at the"Rednecks"FBpage.
7:52
That is very interesting and if correct a great comment in my opinion.
There were violent African American mobs fightin in Albany over the weekend at a fireworks celebration. That, in and of itself is no breaking news.
What IS interesting is the tweets from African Americans who attended the show.
1.WeFuck_WeSmoke, black, 10:10 pm, re-Tweeted 4 times: Heard Niggahs Was Fighting At Turtle Park , Black People Don’t Never Get Alone [along]
2._iTraniere, black, 10:33 pm, re-Tweeted once: But a nigga couldnt even get into turtle park good before they started fightin && shit . I ran right into it
3.TayKoBangz, black, 10:38 pm: 90% of the black ppl [people] at turtle park was kids 18 & under
4.Young_Dwill5, black, 11:53 pm: I know WALB wanted 2 say them black people out there at turtle park dnt know how 2 act…(Ion [I don't] blame em we dnt [don't])
July 5
1.TrillaryCLINT0N, black, 12:25 am, re-Tweeted 8 times: Turtle park was “thick” lol but black folks just get outta line sometimes or maybe that’s just Albany *sigh*
2.Adorar_Me, black, 6:56 am: Thank god that I was not at turtle park last night
3.DbabyDestinee, black, 7:39 am, re-Tweeted once: .dont think i want to go to turtle park nxt year..they always fighting..we black..lets get alone [along] lol
6.jerneriamilledg, black, 6:18 pm: NOW YOU’LL [y'all] BLACK FOLKS GOT THESE WHITE PEOPLE SCRARED [scared] TO COME BACK TO TO TURTLE PARK,LMFAO
July 6
1.williambutler6, black, 1:44 am: Well black ppl [people] we made the news again fighting n shit @ turtle park …#smh [shaking my head]
A little 4th of July truth and common sense.
@ 8:21...
Actually, only $300K of their budget is from local tax dollars.
Of course, the Police Department (with their $189 million budget) could probably use that one sixth of one percent added to their budget, though who knows if it would drastically change the homicide outcome to take that money away from that one program focused on homicide prevention and add it to the PD budget.
waste of time.
A flaw in Tony's reasoning - and about half the posters here:
From everything I've seen, this program is only funded to look at one patrol division. Yet y'all complain that they haven't changed the murder rate city wide.
By that reasoning, you probably hold the KCMO police responsible for crimes in KCK.
Fact is, according to info online, between 2008-2009, aggravated assault rates in the metro increased by 17% and in the Central Patrol division by 3.5%, but in the East Patrol division (where Aim4Peace works), they dropped 7.8%. In that same time, while the Metro homicide rate dropped by 18.2% and the Central Patrol division's homicide rate increased 75%, the East Patrol division's homicide rate dropped 19.1%... Granted, these are old numbers.
Anyone have actual rates by patrol division for more recent years so we actually have a basis for knocking or supporting them?
Breaking news! Hope for Kansas City!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168161/Zombie-theme-park-Detroit-hit-flesh-brain-eating-zombie-apocalypse.html
In Detroit, an entrepreneur, Mark Siwak wants to create a Zombie Theme park.
"Derelict areas of Detroit face being taken over by hordes of 'flesh and brain-eating zombies' if an ambitious business plan takes off.
Entrepreneur Mark Siwak wants to create live-action terror theme park 'Z World' on Motor City's run-down and abandoned streets.
Customers would pay to be chased by professional actors and try to seek shelter in ghostly homes, factories and businesses.
NOW THAT IS A LOT COOLER THAN TONY'S TOY TRAIN!!
"Siwak said it would breathe fresh life into the rundown city, giving jobs to hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
But critics say it is an 'exploitative and insensitive ploy' to profit from Detroit's problems."
This is a quote from a Detroit blogger, it really says it all.
"Curbed Detroit blogger Sarah Cox said the plan 'sounds a lot like all that fun we had during the 1960s race riots'.
She added: 'It's nice to know Z Land is finally going to capitalise on our love of adrenaline rushes and nostalgia. Now even visitors from the 'burbs can 'wonder if they will make it through the night."
And this last comment from Mark Siwak is beautiful.
He added: 'While zombies are great, the real neat thing about this project is the potential to inject some life into a forgotten neighbourhood - with the opportunity to work with neighbourhood groups and organisation'.
Jesus! Is this guy a fuckin hoot or what?
You mean like the Crips and Bloods?
Maybe the guy just rented "Westworld".
What the fuck???
This event isn't reaching the people it needs to and therefore it is a waste of resources. I can count the major issues plaguing this community and tell you exactly where the resources need to be committed; but as long as Kansas City politics uses the buddy system; nothing will ever be accomplished. Take a drive (because you can't stroll - it's unsafe) through the Ivanhoe neighborhood east of Paseo & 71 Hwy. They think Margaret May is a God and the neighborhood looks like shit. That area used to be the highest crime area; now it's nothing but vacant land. You can't pay people to move there!
7:06: So true. And 9:38: ONLY $300K? For bike rides and other assorted hooey? C/mon. Give 'em a few bucks for candles. That's much cheaper.
7/6/12 9:46 AM The drop in crime rate is due to a population decline; not the efforts of this group unless, of course you have data to support your findings?
I bet you don't.
Many alternate uses for the $600k. Here are a few:
1) Tear down abandoned houses used as launching pads for crime.
2) Buy 12 houses per year and give away to homeless families.
3) Get $500k all in ones, put in pile, start a bonfire. Use other $100k to buy hot dogs and have a big weeny roast.
4) Pay Clay Chastain to learn a new hobby (croquet?).
5) Purchase an inventory of bow ties for use by beleaguered politicians trying to change their image to something more dapper and lighthearted.
6) Age spot removal treatments for Councilmembers in need.
7) "Bump" treatment for law enforcement officers.
8) Build a long sidewalk into an empty farm field as a public art project- Homage to KC Development Attorneys
9) As a companion piece, allow grass and weeds in said farm field to grow uncontrolled - Homage to KC Neighborhood Services
10) Install busted, leaking water pipe in field- Homage to KC Water Services.
11) Plant trees right next to sidewalk, preferably sweet gums- Homage to KC Parks and Rec.
Just a few ideas.....
10:06
Jesus that was funny. :)
If Tony "the convicted felon" Caldwell is still running with this so called group :\"Aim4Peace", you know the entire organization is dirty. Mr Caldwell has made lots of enemies over the years from his scandalous ways. It's funny, now he thinks he's a pastor!
Signed,
-A Black man
Rather than partner with a known MC that actually stands up in their community, (like the Zodiacs), Aim4Peace partners with an MC that openly flashes gang signs on their FB page and promotes people with nicknames like Seargant MuFucka to instill "values" and "morals" in urban youth. Know this: Now, every other known 1% MC with an axe to grind with this MC, knows where they'll ALL be on what day and at what time. This has got payback written all over it and paybacks with 1% MC's are never pretty.
Excellent comments. It's good to see so many others calling for the dissolution of Aim 4 Peace. It is a complete waste of dollars and other resources. Tracie McClendon-Cole has got everyone scared to death of being called a racist if they attack her program. Her salary and benefits alone cost the City in the high five or low six figures. Her contributions to the City are non-existent.
This group cannot prove their value. They have no measurable results, no proof of murders not committed because of the group's existence. The City Manager and Council and Mayor should realize what a scam this is. If Rev. Miles stands up to protect it, he's probably getting a piece of the pie. Hasn't he already made enough from the new police station?
Fire McClendon-Cole and use the money to do positive work in the inner City. That $600k would take down many abandoned properties, fix streets in that part of town...so much more that would make a difference. Aim 4 Peace is nothing but a trough for grifters and Tracie.
There are a few hot bitches on their FB page. So are the 1% black bikers the ones that like skinny girls.
How come blacks don't get their tats in white ink?
@ 9:46 do you really think aim4peace had anything to do with those numbers...
Hardly a 1% club. If they claim to be the Galloping Goose will cut off their 1% tats.
Values? Like Penn State & the Roman Catholic church?
More family values in a Hell's Angel chapter than in any of the East Side grifters organizations.
Now if we have folks promoting virtue rather than their own set of values...
lol some clearly don't know the cost of demolition of a vacant property and the resulting debris disposal. With the $300,000 of tax dollars, you might be able to demolish a total of 15 houses and (legally) dispose of the debris.
Shoot, several months back folks were complaining about another city program that spent less than $10,000 per house to renovate homes in the urban core with low income families with children living in them, saying they were also wasting "our" tax dollars (even though the whole story was about a federal grant).
I guess you'll never be able to please everyone.
Doh! hit enter too soon.
I guess you'll never be able to please everyone, even if you are helping some very needy individuals. Someone else will always get mad that they aren't getting handouts themselves.
Quite a few posters here who claim to be knowledgeable about gang signs.
A tip: twisting your fingers around in a picture doesn't always mean you are flashing a "gang sign".
Unless all the barbie-looking cheerleaders in 3/4 of Johnson County high school pics online over the last five years are somehow tied to those big bad gangs...
Watch out! These mean gang-sign throwers are going to get you!
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/MVC026mvc_tourney_2010.jpg
@ 12:11 do you have proof that they don't? I was just posting what is easily findable online.
@12:45 It's typical. Numbers from outside of Aim4Peace's jurisdiction get posted and it "proves" that Aim4Peace isn't doing any good.
But then numbers that apply directly to the region that Aim4Peace works get posted, and the assumption is immediately that they have nothing to do with those (documented) decreases in their jurisdiction that aren't present elsewhere in the city.
Love the lunchtime A4P apologist asking posters to prove negatives; equating sorority signs being flashed by white college cheerleaders (a demographic known for being at-risk for gang initiation) with black motorcyclists that associate with felons (squeaky clean to a person, no doubt), and generally discounting the effects of proven, non-A4P explanations for crime reduction (e.g. Population shifts, enhanced law enforcement, etc.). Typically trough-feeding tools.
By not spending the $600,000 on Aim4Peace doesn't mean that you HAVE TO SPEND IT ON SOMETHING ELSE.
And if the city had any leaders with vision, strategy, or priorities, the money could be used in collaboration with other funds and organizations to advance those overall objectives.
But KCMO throws money at the noisiest most troublesome folks just to get rid of them. And in the case of Aim4Peace it's just another gesture to the black community which is much easier than actually trying to do the hard work of curbing the violence on the east side.
If that's how you operate, then results or accountability don't apply.
And the comments are right:
McLendon-Cole and the program are safe from criticism or defnding becasue sh'e black.
And the city spends $300K with the other $300K from the Health Foundation.
A total waste of money with zero results and the funders don't have the guts to cut it off.
@ 1:24 I notice that rather than respond to the arguments, you attack the posters. Talk about typical.
So tell me, why is it that when stats are posted that have absolutely nothing to do with A4P by virtue of being outside of their jurisdiction, but are being used to justify attacks on them, we should mindlessly agree that they somehow prove something about A4P, but when stats are posted that directly relate to where A4P is working, you and others have no response except to say that there's no proof that they caused the numbers?
Are you saying that the police (outside of their collaboration with and support of A4P) are somehow doing more in the A4P district than in others? Are you saying that from 2008-2009 there was a 19% drop in the population of that patrol district?
2:18- Not respond to arguments? What a stupid fucking ignorant post!! Try re-reading the post.
Only after point by point direct refutation are you called a trough-feeder.
Dissolve Aim 4 Peace now!
2:18,
"Are you saying that the police (outside of their collaboration with and support of A4P)"
Please find me one police officer that supports A4P. Just one. Seriously, the dept and especially the violent crimes detectives HATE when A4P gets involved because it's members (often time felons and ex-cons) coerce victims and witnesses and promote a "no snitchin" mentality.
The police supporting A4P. That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
10:32 is right. Get rid of the stupid A4P program and fire Tracie Cole. Save the city big bucks and use the money in worthwhile ways.
FYI... sgt. mufker is with Ruff Ryders, a national lifestyle (hiphop) club not a motorcycle club (MC) and not with Redliners MC. Get your facts straight. Also, the twisted fingers is an "R" in sign language.
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