TKC TIPSTER EXCLUSIVE!!! READ THE EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN MAYOR SLY JAMES AND STL MAYOR FRANCIS SLAY OVER POLICE LOCAL CONTROL!!!
Cowtown politicos deal mostly with media and stationary . . . They have little knowledge or insight into how things work on Kansas City streets.
To wit . . .
TKC TIPSTERS GIVE US A FIRST HAND GLIMPSE INTO MAYOR SLY PLAYING NICE AND DISCUSSING LOCAL CONTROL OF THE KANSAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT!!!
There's been a bit of reporting on this . . . Here's Mayor Sly's money quote:
"When this election is over and presuming that St. Louis has gained local control, Kansas City will have the distinction of being the only city without local control of its police department. We will address this issue in our own fashion through collaborative analysis and communication. We will consider your experiences as you transition to local control and incorporate them into our deliberations regarding the governance of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department in the future. I have no doubt your experiences in this historic transformation will be both informative and invaluable as Kansas City considers its options."
However . . .
TKC TIPSTERS WANT YOU TO READ THE DOCUMENTS IN FULL IN ORDER TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE POLITE WAY THAT POLITICOS ARE GONNA CHANGE UP POLICING!!!
Read STL Mayor Slay's Letter
And then . . .
Read the letter IN FULL from Kansas City Mayor Sly James regarding local control
Developing . . .
America can now be summarized by this phrase: "don't call out my scam and I won't call out yours."
ReplyDeletePlease name ONE single idea or initiative that Sly has been trying to implement to make KCMO a safer community and the ONLY thing preventing him from doing it is a lack of local control.
ReplyDeleteNow we'll spend the next two years WAITING ro see what will happen about this and all the while with the same clueless BOPC and folks at city hall ignoring and neglecting the issue.
Let's see, two years? That's about 221 homicides.
Is this a great city, or what?
I will name not ONE but TWO....club kc kept dip shit kids off the plaza and NoVA with Jackson county
ReplyDeleteOnly 4 ways to get that letter.
ReplyDelete1) Slay gave it to you.
2) A Sunshine request.
3) Sly gave it to you.
4) Someone close to the Mayor's office gave it to you.
My money is on 3, with 4 coming in a close second.
Negative surveillance of opp and preliminary vetting of potential issues.
True dat.
ReplyDeleteIf this ever happens, and it would be years in the future, you'll see the KCMO elected officials at that time claim that if ONLY THEY HAD (fill in the blank) available to them, THEN they could really do a great job curbing crime and violence, but local control just isn't enough, so don't expect any progress in public safety.
ReplyDeleteFirst, you have to make this a high priority. And if you don't, no programs or changes in names or organizational charts will matter in the least.
These people are like th dog that chased the car and finally caught it. What now?
@3:46pm
ReplyDeleteNoVa will be as effective as Aim4Peace, which is to say, not at all.
The Club KC program makes the other poster's point. BOTH are being pursued WITHOUT local control. So if you're saying that some things can and should be done WITHOUT local control, what's the purpose of wasting time, effort, and energy that on organizational issues when that energy could be used to curb violence.
And are there LOTS of other initiatives that can be undertaken, most importantly working with residents and bulding relationships toward serious community policing.
Thanks for pointing out that so much can be done without completely changing KCPD governance. It's not that often that apoint is reinforced by someone who thinks they're actually challenging it.
4:02, I'd guess someone in the Mayor's office gave it to TKC.
ReplyDeleteWho cares where it came from, we need to have more say on it. Are there any public meetings scheduled?
ReplyDeleteThe importance of where it came from, 7:14, is hat it demonstrates that Tony is just a coopted tool.
ReplyDeleteI thought Sly was going to take over the KCPS district a while back and that all ended in lots of talk with no real plan or serious thought given to what that might have actually meant.
ReplyDeleteWith the current BOPC, governance and management of the PD couldn't get much worse or even onon-existent, but very careful thought needs to be given to what local control might mean.
And a WHOLE LOT MORE SERIOUS THOUGHT than was given to Sly's last big jump into running things.
I am so happy to see the City moving forward towards City control of the Police department. It works in all other cities and it will also work in Kansas City. As of now the State control and BOPC system has failed which is reflected in the years and years of high crime in Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteAre we censoring, Tony?
ReplyDeleteTony, I'm surprised you haven't been calling out the Mayor for having lied to the voters. During the Mayoral election debates both candidates were asked the direct question of, "where you do you stand on the issue of local control of the police?" If you recall, at the time of the debates, Burk said he was in favor of local control. James on the other hand said "It's not the right time to pursue local control. Kansas City has bigger issues we need to take care of first." I was in the audience when Sly made the comments. I thought it was a very reasonable response. Our city does have bigger issues than the need for local control. Local Control will not improve how police services are delivered to the residents of the city!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who all the politicos in the city will blame for the high crime rates once they get local control? I mean for years they have blamed the lack of local control for the problem. They've insisted that things would be different if THEY had more accountability for the high crime rates. Well, Sly, who will you blame once you have local control? I know who I am going to blame come election time!!!
ReplyDeleteSly, lawyer, politician. These three things should of been a sign of bad things. No control over his son, no control of leading the city, big wishes and failure in the school district. Local control, if you think the cops wrote tickets before just wait. They want the near billion dollars in the pension fund the KCPD employees paid into for their retirement. He's a bully and a liar and local control is the first step to total ruination in this city. And btw the cause of crime is the P.O.S. that the courts turn loose, mostly in Jackson County.
ReplyDeleteTony, oh what tangled webs we weave...... WHAT IS A COOPTED TOOL? I want to know, seriously!
ReplyDelete10:30 PM is the State and BOPC the ones out doing the crime? Do the State and BOPC control the Jackson County Prosecutor? The blame for crime has always been and will always be because the citizen or non-citizen chose to commit the crime. The State and the BOPC cannot control criminals any more than they can control non-criminals. The fed and state gov'ts create laws that law-abiding people adhear to. The non-law-abiding people that choose to break the law were not led there by the State or the BOPC so blaming them is absurd. It's way past time to recognize that these non-law-abiding citizens are a product of their environment. And the State and BOPC has not created that environment, the moral decline of human beings is not the fault of anyone except the people choosing to do immoral and illegal acts. Have a little bit of self-realization and contemplate who's the cause of the crime problems.
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