KCTV5: "Homicides, rapes, assaults and other violent crimes are down 14 percent in KCK. Property crimes are also down."
Meanwhile in KC Proper . . . Homicides are down slightly but shootings are SPIKING along with MORE property crime according to all of the people I hear complaining.
Meanwhile in KC Proper . . . Homicides are down slightly but shootings are SPIKING along with MORE property crime according to all of the people I hear complaining.
Dear Mr. Tony: Thanks for posting. Yes, violence in down in KCK--the lowest number of homicides so far in 2012 since 1980. Key figure in clearance rate--80% in KCK vs. 50% in KCMO--KCMO clearance rate has fallen from about 65% in 2007. In my hometown of Washington, DC they are on schedule to have the lowest homicide total since the 1950's--clearance rate in DC: 91%. If you want to lower homicides in KCMO you must improve the clearance rate--and that will not happen until the men and women of the KCPD feel that if charged with misconduct, particularly racist misconduct, that they will get due process and fair media coverage. Choice is yours, KCMO. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteFrom what you hear? Wtf is that? What you hear is a bunch of pointless anecdotes. What you hear is a bunch of whining and crying. You don't base this kind of stuff on stupid little anecdotes. You need a little common sense before you start writing. Maybe you need to consult the statistics. I'm not saying it's wrong, what you hear. What I am saying is what you hear is not how people operate that have any common sense
ReplyDeleteDr. Evans is right, but improving the clearance rate also takes the cooperation of the community as well as some leadership to emcourage, empower, and train residents to participate in the safety of their own neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteSo where are the leaders, not-for-profits, and government agencies thate are addressing this cahllenge. We spend many hundreds of millions of dollars in the metro on "anti-crime" and "crime prevention" groups and programs. But if you don't address today's problems in a serious way, you end up spending money on yesterday's news. Aren't corporations, foundations, and governments concerned enough with how their money is spent that they don't don't even know or care what results they're getting?
I like to reserve the title "doctor" for people who actually write prescriptions and have either an MD or DO behind their name. It's in the AP stylebook if anyone is curious.
ReplyDeleteHow can this be? KCK doesn't even have Al Brooks, Aim4Peace, and Forte's PR machine.
ReplyDeleteI' sure the KCMO numbers can be manipulated insome way to show how great the latest programs are working.
Maybe we could just decide to start this year's homicide statistics on August 1 an hope that no one will notice.
The police board certainly won't!
7:19- "Hundreds of millions"? Better do a little fact checking there, bub. Or explain your accounting.
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