The more stringent and Entertainment District Curfew is ON FOR THIS WEEKEND . . .
2 parts of the ordinance . . .
Citywide ordinance . . . Under age of 16 in summer months the curfew is 10pm. 16 age and up to 18 during summer months curfew is 11pm. The remainder of the year.
2nd part . . . The Entertainment Districts: Plaza, Westport, Zona Rosa, 18th and Vine and the Central biz district i.e. Downtown . . . 9pm for anybody under the age of 18.
The fine . . . $500 for parents. Penalty will only be assessed to parents.
Do you think it's gonna help???
I did my best to check my quotes the quotes on the subject . . . Check Channel 2 for direct quotes.
Council Lady Jan Marcason called the measure "swift and bold" action . . . That's "Just the beginning that sends a strong message"
They're still talking about imaginary "programs" that will help the children on The Plaza . . .
Councilman Pastor Brooks wonders how effective it will be . . .
Council Dude Wagner: "This ordinance allows us to deal with an immediate need . . . There is not one city that has dealt with youth violence that hasn't had a curfew component." And then he went on to blather about some old school FDR quote.
Council Dude Taylor . . . "This is a true test for this Council . . . My concern is the message we're sending out to children . . . 95% of our students are awesome. It's the small group of kids that create the havoc. There's a tendency to want to overreact. There needs to be a balance. I want the message to get out to the children that we value them and that this will help resolve the situations we've seen."
Council Dude Sharp initially opposed the measure . . . "I would not oppose advancing it, if we really had the time to deal with important legislation and if I wasn't sure that the police department's plans to staffing up . . . And having enough police on the Plaza . . . It will be difficult to swing a dead cat with the police presence there."
MAYOR SLY JAMES GAVE A SPIRITED ENDORSEMENT OF THE CURFEW THAT YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT FOR YOURSELF ON CHANNEL 2!!!
"In regard to how this effects what is being said to children. My message. I care about you."
"Now we have a chance to change something. I don't care who criticizes me."
"It only takes one idiot with a gun to ruin everyone's life."
"I'm tired of excuses, I'm tired of how slow things move in this city when we know what needs to be done. Somebody needs to stand up and say something. And I'm doing it."
Councilman Sharp: "It's a shame that it took an incident of violence on the Plaza to start interest in the rate of youth violence."
"When a young person of color is killed it rates about 'that much' space in the paper when it doesn't occur one of the crown jewels of this city."
"Murders in this city have become so commonplace that they rate only a footnote in the paper."
"Passing an ordinance doesn't do anything. It's whether that ordinance will be enforced."
"We have a stricter curfew for the entertainment districts than we do for the rest of the city. This invites successful litigation . . . We're more interested in economics than the lives of the children we say we're going to protect."
Councilman Sharp wanted to make the provisions of the ordinance uniform across the city.
Council Dude Johnson: "Today we need a good plan rather than a perfect plan." That stopped an amendment battle . . . And led to a commitment to work on the legislation.
Mayor Sly: "Let's keep working on it and keep making it better."
"The only thing we can do is the best we can. We need to do something to protect our kids, enterprises and properties this weekend."
The final ordinance passed 13 - 0.
So now everything is solved. Right?
From the Mayor's Office . . .
Mayor and Kansas City Council unanimously enact sweeping curfew changes
Council takes action to keep young people safe and hold parents accountable
(KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI) --- Kansas City Mayor Sly James and the entire Kansas City Council joined together today to change the city’s curfew for minors. “My message to kids throughout this city is I care about every single one of you. Today this Council stepped up and clearly announced the days of inaction are over — enough is enough. Together we took action to put the responsibility for young children being out far too late squarely on their parents. There is much to do, but every solution begins at home. I am proud this Council stood together and with one voice declared that this is only a first step, but it is a necessary one. This will not stop the violence in our city. There is much more we will do. But, the large mobs have to stop and now,” said Mayor Sly James.
The Council enacted the ordinance by emergency action, declaring that the changes will take effect immediately upon passage. Beginning this weekend, the city’s new curfew is as follows:
For the summer months, from the Friday proceeding Memorial Day through the last Sunday in September the new curfew for minors under 16 is now 10:00 p.m. For minors ages 16 and 17 the new curfew is 11:00 p.m.
The Council also designated five areas that during the summer will have a special curfew. The Plaza, Westport, Downtown/Central Business District, 18th and Vine and Zona Rosa will have a 9:00 p.m. curfew for anyone under 18.
In October the curfew will revert for all minors under 18 to 11:00 p.m. on weekdays and midnight Friday and Saturday evenings.
Any minor violating the new curfew ordinance will be detained and their parents called to pick them up. Parents will be ticketed with a fine up to $500 for each offence.
Exceptions for the curfew include:
a. When a minor is attending an event for which the City has specifically approved the presence of unaccompanied minors upon City property;
b. When a minor is accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or other adult person having the lawful care and custody of the minor;
c. When the minor is upon an emergency errand directed by his or her parent or guardian or other adult person having the lawful care and custody of such minor;
d. When the minor is returning directly home from a school activity, school entertainment, school recreational activity or school dance;
e. When the minor is returning directly home from lawful employment that makes it necessary to be in the places referenced in this section during the prescribed period of time;
f. When the minor is attending or traveling directly to or from an activity involving the exercise of first amendment rights of free speech, freedom of assembly or free exercise of religion; and
g. In interstate travel through the city.
“This Council stands united to reduce violent crime in Kansas City. There will be more actions to come in the weeks ahead. Reducing the crime in our neighborhoods and keeping our children safe will require a coordinated effort. It cannot just be the city, or the police department, or churches, or schools; rather it must be all of the above and more. We will keep doing what is right for the children of this city, and I truly believe we have turned a corner and will sustain the effort we have begun,” concluded Mayor James.
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Its a damn good start. We'll solve the rest one step at a time.
ReplyDeleteI meant one arrest and fine at a time.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! The City Council actually did something right for a change?
ReplyDeleteI think its definitely a good start. However, to see this effectively work should the problem continue to persist, the city needs to provide an efficient resource to the KCPD, such as one of those curfew centers mentioned in earlier articles, to expedite the process so that officers are not tied up for an hour with each arrest. You could deploy a smaller amount of officers on the Plaza to enforce the curfew if the process of releasing juveniles into the custody of a curfew center or curfew squad was streamlined.
ReplyDeleteBut Tony, you left out the comment by the black lady who said, "What we need is BIRTH CONTROL!!!" Sadly, no one on the city council had the nerve to ask her how this idea would help with 10 to 18 year old kids who are invading the Plaza on weekends. LOL
ReplyDeletewhat did Louie Wright say?
ReplyDeletehey do you have a good lawyer yet? I think you're gonna need one.
Fuck Louis Wright and the white horse he rode in on. This ordinance will pay dividends especially, if it's enacted with the force it was voted on at Council..
ReplyDeleteMaybe Tony's fans should start a Tony's Kansas City Legal Defense Fund! Tony could require a $1 per anonymous post. What do you think Tony?!?
ReplyDelete6:31 as an anonymous poster myself I completely reject such an idea. It would be a a complete bastardazation of freedom of speech.
ReplyDeleteRespectfully submitted
Louis Wright
Tony should start The Tony Botello Center for The Blogging Arts and put these junviniles to work. For free like Arianna does. For the privilage of being able to blog on TKC.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is the kids will say F*!K You and attack people anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhats going to stop the Punks from causing trouble in areas around the Plaza. I guess they can go destroy everything in site just south of Brush Creek since the curfew there will be 10.
ReplyDelete6:55 - You have the best point.
ReplyDeleteNo quote for Mayor Pro Twat Cirrco? Guess she must mumble when she's got the mayor's dick in her mouth.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Louis Wright has allowed his EGO to give himself a "false" sense of authority! He is only hurting his "perception" of the Union which is what he is suing for. You should actualy quote him eveytime he opens his pie hole( Iknow your watching). Your Union lost so much with your departure, but gained so much respect.
ReplyDeleteCirco is useless unless you need your nails done.
ReplyDeleteThis curfew isn't going to work.
Cat and Mouse Game
ReplyDeleteHide and Seek
Your Choice
Now we need an ordinance to keep those stupid ninja racing bikes out of the area.
ReplyDeleteSkipping the plaza this week, staying in Leawood. Most of us are making that same decision. This just seals it. Sorry KC you are losing my business more and more every day.
ReplyDelete7:52 you shouldn't advertise or the Kids may decide Leawood is the place they want to be next.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line is our society is sick, if not dead at least spritually.
The curfew is just another dog-and-pony show put on as a reaction to an event that has occured in one form or anther for years. It addresses none of the underlying problems, opne of the most important of which is the fact that the folks at 12th and Oak still keep talking to the same old self-appointed "leaders" of the black community who have made good livings even as the east side has deteriorated into the disaster it is today.
ReplyDeleteNothing could be more ridiculous than Mayor James woaking around the Plaza last Saturday with the good 'ol revs and, of all people, Al Brooks, whose entire career has been made on the misery of grieving families. None of the young people even knew who those old guys were, including the mayor. How about involving and listening to some of the yhounger new people who are actually doing some work in the community.
Making believe it's still the victimiztion/entitlement '60s is easier, and the problems will just keep getting worse.
6:55--
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing worth hanging around at south of the Plaza so they won't choose to go there. They'll pick a place where there's plenty of people they can scare for the attention because they think its funny.
They should flash mob 18th & Vine. At least there'd be no one there to scare off.
ReplyDeleteI never go to the Plaza without my 9mm
ReplyDeleteWe'll probably need to raise the etax to make up for all the uncollected fines.
ReplyDeleteAnd how do you find the parents when some of these kids might not know who their real parent is let alone where they are.
Society, especially black society is broken.
ReplyDeleteOrdinances won't fix that.
We're gonna need more prisons.
Oh, and fuck Louie Wright and his jocksniffing goober dicknose son.
niggers FUCK UP everything!!!! I told you so....
ReplyDeleteThis will never work, you just wait and see...oh it will work when all the plaza businesses have left, and well, I guess we could call those folks back about the soccer complex that was supposed to go in at the old Bannister mall location...oh wait again, I guess that went to Kansas. Wonder where the new plaza will be put on the Kansas side?
ReplyDeleteKansas City Missouri is a fucking Joke, and I am not laughing because I live here, but not for long, saw some good deals on homes in JC, just not sure that's far enough away from the KCMO stench and its ripple effects for the people that live in the burbs...soon all KCMO trash will be our neighbors, and the cycle starts all over again.
One plus, when you don't live in KCMO you don't get KCFD responding to your 911 calls wow that's exciting actually. Might actually have a chance to live if I dont live here, if I have a trauma or medical emergency.
Welcome to Kansas City...a nigger shithole cowtown!
ReplyDeleteI didn't mention if my house catches on fire because I couldn't give a fuck, that's why I have insurance.
ReplyDeleteThe City Council is comprised of self-serving cowards, as opposed to Statesmen-Leaders. They ALL lack the courage to say that the geographic concentration of ignorance on the proximate East Side of the Plaza needs to be dismantled, and it's population disbursed away from the only remaining economic icon Kansas City has left.
ReplyDeletePeople with money will avoid the Plaza, and Plaza merchants will move to Kansas.
The day that Olathe sets up an open air shopping district. The Plaza will disappear.
ReplyDeleteOnly John Sharp had balls enough to get close to the truth. Kids have been getting murdered every week for years, and it didn't make a blip on the radar. Kids scare rich Johnson county old folks from spending money on the Plaza, and we got action in a week.
ReplyDelete11:25 John Sharp is one of this cities greatest problems, just look at his past history, he has louie jiz all over his mole ass head. Fuck that dude!
ReplyDelete11:25--
ReplyDeleteTry reading a crime report sometime to see just who the majority of these angelic "kids" were.
7:27 the union did not lose a thing with his up coming departure, and as far as gained respect, they dont deserve any respect after they re elected his beeker from the muppets looking ass, then he wouldnt have been able to destroy the ems system, and embarrass the fire system on his way out...he leaves no legacy here!
ReplyDeleteI am king gampo ndi say "smack them with thy cock Tony" and start with radioman cause he is thy little bitch
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine for the slow witted kids who can't remember to argue that "talking to my friends" is a First Amendment activity. I bet we'll be surprised by the rapid increase of young Constitution scholars...
ReplyDelete6:16 PM: So right--what we need is mandatory birth control.
ReplyDeleteSpay and neuter: It's not just for pets anymore.
Good call by kcpd
ReplyDelete11:23 you mean like happened when Leawood Town center opened, or the Corbin Square development - oh thats right is is incomlete and in bankruptcy
ReplyDelete8/19/11 9:33 AM
ReplyDeleteYour joking.
This was a problem LAST YEAR!!!