TKC MUST READ!!! KCPD CHIEF FORTÉ THREATENS DEVASTATING CUTS TO POLICE FORCE IF VOTERS OPPOSE EARNINGS TAX!!!
Kansas City's top cop stands up for a controversial tax campaign in his latest message to local voters.
To wit . . .
KCPD CHIEF TOUTS EARNING TAX RENEWAL 2016 AND THREATENS CUTBACKS IF VOTERS DON'T APPROVE!!!
Some may argue against the appropriateness of a public safety official entering the political fray but he's certainly entitled to his opinion.
Three things to consider . . .
- TKC readers remind us that in public forums and on Ruckus, Current E-tax campaign spokesman Steve Glorioso has openly called for cuts to the police budget.
- As with all of blog posts, the KCPD has disabled comments from readers to respond to contentions about the earnings tax.
- Notice that the Chief's warning is focused on the Northland where the E-tax is clearly trailing in the polls . . . It seems the crafting this message serves as a warning to residents across the bridge that failure to comply with the tax campaign will result in even less service . . .
Reality - Residents in the Northland ALREADY complain about few cops on their side of town.
Here are the basics of the Chief's argument . . .
According to KCPD Chief Forté: "Kansas City’s 1 percent earnings tax presently is up for debate in the Missouri Legislature and up for Kansas City voters to renew in April. The proceeds from this tax make up almost 40 percent of the City's general fund, which primarily supports public safety, including the police department budget. Without it, police would be forced to make significant cuts.
"If the tax goes away, the City estimates that 810 sworn officer positions would need to be eliminated. That’s more than 80 percent of the officers we currently have on patrol. In total, we currently have about 1,350 sworn officers, which include investigative, training and specialty elements.
"Because of this estimated reduction, police response to some incidents would be significantly reduced and possibly eliminated, such as non-injury car crashes, burglaries, fraud and forgery incidents. Response times would increase, and elements like those listed below that were instituted through the earnings tax could be cut. A Northland patrol division station also could be eliminated.
"The elements listed below have done a tremendous amount of good in our city. They have changed the lives of young people, found and stopped people who committed violent crimes, served the growing northern part of our city, significantly reduced illegal narcotics and the violence that goes with them, protected children from harm and brought justice for victims and their loved ones. If the earnings tax was eliminated, however, KCPD would have to devote nearly all of its resources to responding to 911 calls for service. We could not afford to staff these and other specialized units."
Again, read the entirety of the comments from the Chief on his blog but for now any response or contradiction to this public policy issue from voters to the words of Chief has been disabled and only TKC provides this KANSAS CITY FREE SPEECH AWESOME PUBLIC SERVICE!!!
You decide . . .
Here's what you forgot TKC: This kind of politicking would be illegal if it came from rank and file officers.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, are rank and file officers allowed to voice their opposition to the earnings tax?
If the Chief wants his officers to obey rules about politics in uniform, we should expect leadership from the top down. It would be nice if we saw some leadership by example in KC.
For a City in the top ten most dangerous in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThe Chief, public officials and sleazy consultants asking for reductions in the KCPD budget is total insanity.
I really thought a city leadership who was concerned about basic services getting cut wouldn't be throwing good money after bad at 18th and Vine and sending Little Cindy Circo to Milan to stumble through a speech.
ReplyDeleteFUCK THEM. DON'T FALL FOR THE SCARE TACTICS AGAIN.
Can someone explain to me how voting NO will improve city services & reduce crime?
ReplyDeleteHow will reducing the police budget reduce crime?
Apparently, Denizens of Kansas City's Last Free Speech Zone don't believe in Free Speech.
STFU Shithouser
DeleteHey, what about the big white elephant - KCFD. How many firefighters would lose their jobs?
ReplyDelete$1.4 billion budget of which $220 million is from the E-Tax.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe that a total enterprise budget reduction is not possible.
Troy Schulte needs to be fired for this.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:58
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihnKDpzVjHM
Please be mindful that this is a PR stunt. In 2010, voters approved 1/4 cent public safety tax for capital improvements and workforce benefits. They have the money. This is just fear mongering. Nothing is beneath this coward. He's a hintchman.
ReplyDeleteI would think that the MBI / Missouri Bureau of Investigations in Jeff City and the Kansas City FBI would be investigating KCMO and that Degenerate Phony Mayor Sly James and his staff.
ReplyDeleteAs well as a through AUDIT of where all this money is going !!!
Mayor Sly James and his entire Staff at city hall are nothing but Corrupteers of the system !!!
Furthermore, as far as cutting police, its badd now everytime theres a CRIME reported as we ever hear is - if - you know anything, call 474-TIPS,,, so how much worde can it get ???????????
Also, that Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker needs to be investigated as well, shes Sucked in there with that Degenerate Mayor and his Fraudulent phony crew as well !!
This city KCMO / Jackson County is an utter mess, Disaster and soon I'll be moving, out of the entire state, a very long ways out of the state, I've seen enough, had enough of this Degenerate Liberalized Shit-hole they've turned it into !
I see a lotta companies moving out of KCMO and outta state of Missouri recently within the last 3 to 5 years.
look around all ya see are:
Fast food joints
Liquor stores
Payday loan Sharks
Phony Pawn Shops
Junky used car lots in KCMO
Not a very good mix of busineeses
very little if any good Manufacturing Jobs or High Tech Skilled jobs in KCMO.
But wait, they've got millions of Dollars to sink into 18th Vine District which will do what ?????????
Time to oust this Mayor Sly James and his cronies thru a Major "Re-Call Petition Drive" and throw his degenerate ass out of office and investigate him !!!
Welcome to KCMO, your 3rd World City, almost like a 3rd World Country !
Hey Tony I heard the chief didn't pay for some Girl Scout cookies once and he owes $8 you should run this it's all true and we verified it.
ReplyDeleteOur neighborhood was once so nice and so clean
but niggers moved in and it's now dirty and obscene
We used to be safe and didn't have to lock our doors
but niggers moved in and we all know the score
Crime is way up and the neighborhood's going down
With niggers everywhere acting like fools and behaving like clowns
There's muggers and thugs and drug dealers galore
With feral nigglets running wild and even crack whores
YES, THE NIGGERS ARE ALL IGNORANT, ALL LOUD AND LOW CLASS
AND CAN'T WAIT TO CHIMP OUT AND SHOW THAT BLACK ASS
BUT YOU CAN'T SAY A WORD OR "YOU'RE A RACIST!" THEY'LL SCREAM
AS THEY TAKE A HUGE MONSTER SHIT ON YOUR AMERICAN DREAM.
You're living that now and it can only get worse as one group of niggers attracts even more niggers. If you can't move, start calling the police and filing complaints about the noise, call child protective services if you see the nigglets out in the road unattended/neglected. Chances are one or more boons in the house has warrants too.
ANOTHER AWESOME PUBLIC FREE SPEECH SERVICE AM I RIGHT?
Fuck The Police
ReplyDeleteThat hobo looking motherfucker can't even cut the hair off of his face. Hows he going to handle cutting the budget of the department. We already get next to nothing from law enforcement because if his leadership. As for me I vote and will vote NO. I'm done with Mayor Magilla and his Kool-Aid stand form of government. This ape has driven this town deeper inro the sgitgole than it already was with his overspending of taxes meant for infrastructure but diverted to his pet projects thru emergency sessions that the public has had no say in. Give this ape more money to play with? NO WAY. The only time I will again vote to raise taxes in this town is when the bow tie wearing ass clown is down the road never to return.
ReplyDeleteAs for you, Byron, I can't figure out why you are so interested in something that doesn't matter to or involve you at all. Slow day in shitburg, West Vagina? Or just feel like annoying a city full of people who really do not give one shit about you or your opinions.
2:16 throw in a couple "b*tches" with several "muthahf*ckahs" and a finger salute at the end--platinum!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a common trick of bureaucrats. It is often used by federal agencies. The ploy is to maintain or increase funding by threatening to cut off popular or necessary public services (and leave intact the ones the public doesn't need or want) if the money gets tight. It is a protection racket, really, not unlike the one the Mob used to run, and with the same level of criminality. The cure is to never let the bureaucrats be the ones to decide what goes and what stays.
ReplyDeleteDoom and gloom. Desperation. Lies. City is acting like a spoiled teenager that just lost a regular allowance.
ReplyDeleteHow is the Chief coming on eliminating take home cars. Almost 900 take home cars for 1400 police men.
ReplyDeleteWhat difference will that make they don't fight crime now.
ReplyDeleteMore Bullshit from the Kings of Bullshit. KCPD
ReplyDeleteWith all the tickets they write you would think the KCPD would be self supporting.
ReplyDeleteSo this city says this yet wants to throw millions at the useless 18th & Vine district and hundreds of millions at an airport we don't need. But we'll have to lay off cops? Sounds like crying wolf to me.
ReplyDeleteYawn, more lies.
ReplyDeleteThe chief should stick to his job and stop trying to play politics.
ReplyDeleteThe very same KCPD Chief who last week suggested the Police Dept. had too much money in their budget, and wanted to give some to tear down dangerous buildings?
ReplyDeleteThe City Manager who now says a failure to renew the e-tax would be catastrophic, yet he easily found an off-budget additional $18 million to throw into the 18th and Vine pit?
The Mayor who says the sky will fall if the e-tax is phased out, and it's all a conspiratorial plot by Jefferson City Republicans?
The Kansas City Star who's on-the-take with tax breaks, gladly ignores KCMO political dysfunction to point the finger at "evil rich guy Rex Sinquefield"? And Abouhalkah's priority is to build a statue for Kay Barnes? WTF?
Fuck Forte and the Paddy Wagon he rode in on.
ReplyDeleteEnding the E Tax wont have any effect on citizens safety whatsoever. Consider that the police show up after your ass is shot or dead. Please explain to me what a KC citizen might miss? Save your tax money and get a gun. There is where you will find your police protection.
Not having this E Tax might provide just the incentive the dead weight at KCPD needs to get an education and go get training in a real fucking police department.
VOTE NO - VOTE NO TWICE IF YOU ARE CONNECTED WITH ACORN!
6:08 sums it up pretty well.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as a property owner in KCMO I'm voting YES on E-Tax, least my taxes go up while all you service suckers from JOCO, WYCO, reap nothing but a paycheck. What's 1% when you reap all the fantastic benefits bought and paid for by our earnings. Go work somewhere else and really send a message to the Jack Ass Dem's who run this failing City.