Nick Sloan at The Kansas City Kansan reports some CRUCIAL facts . . .
KCK crime at a 24-year low
Check the details that Mr. Sloan provides . . .
The KCKPD measures crime in three categories: Violent, property and overall crime.
Accompanying the 2.2 percent decrease of crime are additional positive statistics:
• In KCK, the homicide clearance rate was 70 percent in 2010, higher than the national average of 66 percent.
• The overall crime numbers are at a 24-year low in the city.
• The department's narcotics unit took in over $20 million worth of illegal drugs. Canines deployed by the department helped discover 78 pounds of illegal drugs, along with over $200,000 of cash.
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What can we learn from these facts?
A NEARBY CITY FACING POVERTY WITH AN INFLUX OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN ADDITION TO A LARGE URBAN AND LOWER INCOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION IS DOING A BETTER JOB FIGHTING CRIME THAN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI!!! IN FACT, THEIR CRIME IS DROPPING TO RECORD LOWS!!!
This news reported by The Kansas City Kansan is both inspiring and frightening . . .
What we can deduce from these facts is clear . . . It's not merely demographics but a question of culture that can have a large impact on local crime stats.
This isn't an anomaly and part of the basic respect for life (or lack thereof) that Kansas City, Missouri has yet to address as our homicide rate tragically outpaces surrounding areas which host ethnic populations just as diverse as our own.
That e-tax money in KCMO is sure paying off.
ReplyDeleteThe KCKPD have a long history of real community policing, with a seperate deparment of officers with flexible schedules who spend time developing realtionships with residents in the same neighborhoods every day.
ReplyDeleteKCPD can undertake the same strategy with the current staffing levels and resources, they just don't want to and neither the council nor the police board can make then do what they don't want to do.
By building relationships in the ocmmunity, not only are there fewer crimes, including murders, but more crimes are solved because people don't view the police as the enemy and come forward with more information.
When the KCPD says to you, "there are lots of definitions of community policing", tell them one thing that it's not is riding around in cars with the windows up. There's a very good example with decades of experience right across state line.
Time to do it; no excuses.
The Mexican colonization of KCK is driving the Afro's out. Hispanics in - Blacks out = less crime.
ReplyDelete@ 6:36 you clearly don't have a clue. I remember when KCK started their community policing efforts. They were following the lead of KCMO PD in the 1990's. Like most of the smaller police departments in the Metro, KCK just followed suit with what their larger neighboring department was already doing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a change in leadership in KCMO related to police is in order. Who's on that police board, who appoints them?
ReplyDeleteHow should it be changed? Petition the governor to sweep out the room? Why doens't somebody ask Corwin precisely WHY NOT? Make him either finger himself or the police board. Then go from there.
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ReplyDeleteKCMO hasn't had community policing in the city, except for the WestCAN Center, for years. KCK stuck with it and KCPD moved on to something else.
KCK has an 83% murder clearance rate, and KCMO has 42%.
Is community policing the magic answer to everything? No. But not doing anything doesn't seem to be working.
These numbers must be from the Legends area.
ReplyDeleteIf the KC City Council voted to allow the sale and consumption of marijuana in licensed entertainment areas, then the city would easily be able to increase tax revenue....
ReplyDeleteNow, the taxing authority in the case of marijuana production (growing) would be the *first point of taxation* - the City would know *exactly* how much pot was being grown, and *exactly* where the greenhouses were located.
The enforcement of this provision would come in the form of a *yearly registration fee* - the fee structure would be based on the number of plants that a *registered greenhouse* would declare. The reason for doing this as a *regulated industry* is to be able to declare to the Federal Interstate Trade Authorities that *no pot is leaving the state*. Until the Feds change the rules, disclosure at the local and state level is ***unavoidable***.
Now, the second point of taxation would be the Businesses - they have to pay a licensing fee and a *regulatory fee*. The licensing fee is standard in terms of an operating license (though it may be restricted to certain areas of the city and there may be a sliding scale based on occupancy ratings); the *regulatory fee* would be equal to the expense of hiring additional personnel to monitor that *no pot is leaving the facility*. This is a job creator. At least one new position would be needed at Regulated Industries.
The last tax is a *luxury consumption tax* equivalent to a sales tax.
Now, the City cannot tack on too many expenses (per gram of pot, let's say) and expect the businesses to achieve profitability. Most people will simply not smoke pot if a marijuana cigarette costs $200. But, at $25 per gram of marijuana ( a large cigarette), what would a realistic throughput be?
Assuming consumption of 10,000 cigarettes per week associated between the various local entertainment districts (those that approve such a use class), that is 10,000 grams per week of demand.
At the Greehouse, yield will depend on a number of factors; light, temperature, humidity, water, nutrients, CO2/ventilation, genetics, etc. In the wost case scenario, we can expect a yield of 200 grams per plant.
At a consumption of 10,000 grams per week (10,000 marijuana cigarettes), we would need a harvest of 50 plants per week.
At 50 plants harvested per week, and a grow cycle of three months, we will need (50 plants x 16 weeks) live at any moment, for a total of 800 plants. At 10,000 plants per acre (USDA) 1/12th of one acre is needed to sustain 800 plants. This is exactly 5,000 square feet, or approximately a single 40x120 vacant lot.
This city currently has over 3,000 vacant lots.
Now, anticipating that 10,000 grams of plant matter will be provided to the retail outlet for $10 per gram, the greenhouse will make $100,000 per week (in gross receipts), for a grand total of $4,800,000 per year (@ 50 plants per week = 10,000 grams = 10,000 cigarettes). Setting the *cost of production* at $5.00 per gram (including labor) and the *regulated Industries Fees* to be $2.00 per gram, the actual *net income* for the Greehouse operator is $3 per gram, or $30,000 per week, or $1,440,000 per year). The City would generate $20,000 per week, $80,000 per month, and $960,000 per year in tax receipts. The new monetary input (the cost of production) would add $2,400,000 to the local economy.
Setting the base cost (per cigarette)for the retail outlet at $10 and setting the retail price at $25 ($8 profit, and $7 sales tax + Licensing Fee), the City would generate $70,000 per week, $280,000 per month, and $3,360,000 per year in additional sales tax, per 10,000 marijuana cigarettes sold.
The retail gross would equal $80,000 per week, $320,000 per month, and $3,840,000 per year.
The City would generate $4,320,000 per year in additional tax receipts by creating a new regulated industries application, based on the very conservative estimate of 10,000 marijuana cigarette per week.
This is a modern approach to marijuana policy. Do you think we have any chance at it?
816 Is spot on regarding the increased MEXICAN presence in KCK. It has been my observation that as The Mexicans have moved into neighboorhoods, they've refurbished and stablized them. Kobach needs to see this. but then he's probably afraid to go into the "urban core". As for the KCKPD, they have always had a local focus and different type of leadership than KCMO. And then how can you comapre CAROL MARINOVICH and even Young Reardon to those CLOWNS going back to and including Hizoner Cleaver KCMO has had for mayors.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Tony: The key point about homicides in KCMO vs. KCK is the clarance rate: 70% in KCK and 40 % in KCMO. (National rate about 65%) It is appalling easy to get away with murder in KCMO--particularly if the murder victim is a young black man. As long as there is a good chance that killers can get away with murder, don't expect the KCMO homicide rate to drop. My home town of Washington, DC has just had the lowest homicide rates since the early 1960's--clearance rate in DC: 91%. Not coincidental. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans PS: I am all for community policing, foot patrols, etc--but it is foolish to see these as "silver bullets" that will increase the clearance rate. That rate is not going up until the men and women of the KCPD feel that if accused of misconduct they get due process--not "lynch mob" justice.
ReplyDeleteKCMO community policing is two officers sitting on their butts eating mexican food with illegals at the CAN center. KCK cops are out in the community arresting illegals (and stealing video games). KCMO wastes money on a mounted unit and KCK spends the money on community efforts.
ReplyDeletekcpds idea of policing is sitting by the tips hotline.
ReplyDeleteniggers killing niggers don't count.
ReplyDeleteKCPD needs to be under local control.
ReplyDeleteKCPD is a Joke.
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