Two important notes about local gunfire from the good folks at The Westside CAN Center this weekend -- An organization that often takes the burnt of anti-immigrant criticism but also helps serve as a neighborhood resource -- Here's the news:
The WCAN Center received reports of shootings in the Sacred Heart Area of the neighborhood.
1. Dog Watch Officers responded to reports of guns fired early this morning Saturday, January 21,2012 about 1am-130am on the 2600 block of Jarboe.
2. 29th & Jarboe area - neighbors reported gun shots at approximately 3:30 a.m this morning Saturday, 1/21/12. Just prior to the gunshots a black SUV was seen driving up and down the street. Police responded quickly but could not find the SUV
The Officers reported that they've responded multiple times to reports of gun shots in the 2600 block of Jarboe. Please encourage your friends and family members who may live on that block to please continue to contact the police and to notify the WCAN Center as well.
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Notice Westsiders reporting the shooting and police responding quickly . . . It's phenomena that keeps this neighborhood relatively quiet and cooperative when trouble does arise . . . That kind of community involvement might completely disappear if suburbanites and d-bags from the sticks ever achieved the Will Kraus Missouri crackdown on brown people that a few reactionaries out of the mainstream desire.
DEVELOPING . . .
You're right that having a relationship between police officers and residents has a very positve effect on reducing crime and quickly solving those fewer incidents that occur.
ReplyDeleteIt's called community policing, but it takes BOTH residents and police to make it work.
Some organizations on the east side need to begin empowering residents there and getting them involved with their own neighborhood safety or else all the best efforts of the chief and the KCPD aren't going to have much impact.
Call Ron Hunt! He fixes everythng!
ReplyDeleteRon Hunt and a dollar MIGHT get you a cup of coffee on the westside!
ReplyDeleteCommunity policing does work,to bad it was allowed to fade away in other parts of the city.
ReplyDeleteKCPD has allowed community policing to become a term that you throw around in meetings rather that a plan of action.
ReplyDeleteYou ought to hear Ron Hunt talk about how he can exploit Calvin Willaford. Ron calls Calvin his ATM.
ReplyDeleteCommunity policing DOES work, but you need residents to play a role in the safety of their own neighborhoods. The folks on the east side are way too busy fighting among themselves to be bothered by actually trying to improve their community. It's all about who can shake down the next government or business to pay themselves and their families and friends.
ReplyDeleteJust look at this blog! This crap is the ONLY news that ever comes out of the east side.
That's true, it is all about the grant writing, grant awards, and securing their next paycheck longterm for doing nothing. Amazing
ReplyDeleteNice billboard.
ReplyDeleteMore crime and gun play in Kansas City. Nothing new. What would be new is if it were to stop or at least go down.
ReplyDeleteGuns in the Westside? Must of been blacks. We all know Mexicans use knifes.
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ReplyDeleteget ready la raza is comming look out more shooting s on the way
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