KMBC reports this homicide investigation: KCPD investigates death at Midtown motel
Sleaze Summit killing as well this morning: One man is dead and another in jail after a Saturday morning shooting in Lee's Summit.
Unofficially, the KCMO homicide count stands @ 9 compared to 15 at this time last year.
Sleaze Summit killing as well this morning: One man is dead and another in jail after a Saturday morning shooting in Lee's Summit.
Unofficially, the KCMO homicide count stands @ 9 compared to 15 at this time last year.
Come on niggers, you're just not trying. It's Saturday and you know how to do it!
ReplyDeletePay day, but snowy. Lets go with 2 with a tease of 5 by Monday night.( gotta wait for the plug pullers)
ReplyDeleteSlow killin dis weekend....all my bad ho's are in NY for the bowl. Day be makin Pootie big jingle. Pootie gettin a new fur.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Tony: Thanks for posting this info. Still too early to tell, but the decline in homicide stats in 2014 compared to this point in 2013 may reflect the positive impact of Chief Forte vigorously defending the men and women of the KCPD against charges of racism--such a tough defense by the Chief may well give the cops on the beat the self-confidence to start doing their jobs. Now, if the KC Star would just do what I first urged them to do six years ago, namely run an editorial saying that everyone, including white cops accused of racism, deserves due process, we might finally bring to an end the bloodbath in the city's black neighborhoods that began in the spring of 2008. Take care!! Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans
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ReplyDeleteWith all respect, spring of 2008 was not the beginning of this bloodbath. You did mean 1968 correct?
Dear 7:19: You make a good point about crime trends. From the mid-1930's to the mid-1960's homicide totals in the US remained steady. In the late 1960's they started to go up considerably: In 1965 we had about 8000 homicides for the year, by 1985 we were at about 24,000 for the year. US homicide totals reached their peak in the early 1990's during the so-called "Crack Wars"--and have declined signicantly since then--right now cities like NYC and Wash/DC are having the lowest homicide totals since the early 1960's. As far as KCMO's homicide surge that I see as beginning in the spring of 2008, it was sparked by the KCMO Police Board meeting of April 2008 on the Salva tragedy. At that meeting Commissioners Zobrist, Thompson and Brady spent four hours falling all over themselves to play up to the local versions of the PC police--they did not even pretend to conduct the meeting with any fairness. The local cops "got the message"--don't expect due process from this crowd--and out of sheer self-survival abandoned their duties in the black neighborhoods of the city. One statistic tells it all: In the heavily black East Patrol District there were 20 homicides in the last eight months of 2007--in the last eight months of 2008 there were 50 homicides in that district. August 2008 was the highest homicide total (22 homicides) for any month in the history of the city. Now, in human terms I understand why the commissioners acted as they did--the media and the community leaders would have crucified them if they had conducted the hearing in a fair, balanced way--but the fact remains that these men ended up getting a lot of innocent people killed. In 2007 there were 94 homicides in KCMO--every year since then we have had a significantly higher homicide total for the city. Take care and God bless!! Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Dr. Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteall started about the time Welfare was instituted....Byron should be able to give us some background...
ReplyDeleteAs Detective Columbo would say: "Just one more thing." From the time of the release of the Salva video in Feb. 2007 until the final decision of the Police Board in May 2008 most of the local press corps, with a few honorable exceptions, repeatedly "dumped fuel on the fire" by highly sensationalistic, inflamatory coverage of this tragedy. And, these journalists engaged in this criminally irresponsible behavior despite me having passed on to them some 200 warnings from highly respected crime experts around the country that they were running a great risk of a horrific race riot. By May of 2008 we were inches away from a terrible riot. Now, May of 2008 was also the month in which for the first time in US history a black man, Barack Obama, secured the nomination of a major party for President. I guess I am supposed to believe that it is just a "coincidence" that as a black man was getting closer and closer to being President a lot of people in KCMO were knowingly trying to incite what could have been one of the worst race riots in US history. I find that too incredible a "coincidence" to be believe. A lot of the city's journalists, politicians and community leaders have a lot of explaining to do. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteIt may have been a slow January, and it will probably be a slow February too. The darkies hibernate in weather like this. But the first warm weekend we have, the guns will be a-blazin, and the count will get back up to where it's supposed to be.
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