MUST READ!!! KCPD CHIEF FORTÉ ADVISES AGAINST PANIC OVER "TWO-YEAR-OLD DATA" RE: MISSOURI BLACK HOMICIDES!!!
This is probably one of the most important posts from The KCPD Chief's blog I've ever read:
Two-year-old data: don't panic about "Black Homicide Victimization in the United States" report
Please read the Chief's post in its entirety.
Here is the crux of his argument:
"Dredging up old data does nothing to help improve the situation. We can sit around and bemoan the violence and complain about inequality, or we can do something to fix it. Rest assured I am concerned about the victimization of any person regardless of race, age, sex or ethnicity. That’s why we’re adjusting our policing strategies: focusing on where crime happens most and who is most likely to commit it."
Clearly, this is a defense of the current KCPD "hot spot" program.
However . . .
RESPECTFULLY, TKC DISAGREES WITH THE KCPD CHIEF'S POSITION THAT ANALYZING THE DATA DOESN'T HELP!!! IN FACT, THE CHIEF PROVIDES A LOT OF RELEVANT NUMBERS IN HIS POST ARGUING AGAINST NUMBER CRUNCHING!!!
We're told that it's still too early to judge the Hot Spot program so I guess we'll sit around and wait for more people do die.
Nevertheless . . .
WE CAN'T IGNORE THAT EVERY YEAR THERE IS A SLAUGHTER MOSTLY AMONG YOUNG BLACK MEN IN KANSAS CITY'S URBAN CORE!!! TO IGNORE THE REALITY OF THESE RAW NUMBERS IS TO FURTHER DEVALUE THE LIVES LOST!!!
To be fair, I understand that the focus of the KCPD Chief is on prevention and addressing the crisis . . . Not number crunching.
Still . . .
THE UNACCEPTABLE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN KANSAS CITY SHOULD BE OUR TOP PRIORITY AND THIS DATA HELPS DRAW ATTENTION TO THE ONGOING PROBLEM THAT SO OFTEN GOES IGNORED!!!
The number of young, Black men killed every year IS IMPORTANT . . . Furthermore . . . THE DATA IDENTIFIES A TREND.
Of course there are murders throughout the Kansas City area, TKC contends that an absence of Kansas City leadership has allowed a culture of death to take hold in our city.
Another controversial argument from The KCPD Chief:
"Kansas City is a safe place if you don’t exhibit high-risk behaviors by being involved in or associating with those who are involved in violent crime and narcotics distribution."
For the most part this is correct. However, every so often a stray bullet or innocent bystander killed remind us that statistical anomalies can have a dreadful impact on precious human life.
In conclusion, the fact that Missouri Leads The Nation in Black Homicides is an important detail that allows the public to put this ongoing tragedy in perspective and maybe help address the root causes of this horrific situation.
And here's where the racists chime in.
ReplyDeleteOaky...I'll go first:
ReplyDelete"But the fact that Missouri Leads The Nation in Black Homicides is an important detail that allows the public to put this ongoing tragedy in perspective and maybe help address the root causes of this horrific situation."
It's as clear as day, nothing to it. In fact, the data cited poits is out unerringly; state-wide, young black men are killing young black men.
"... an absence of Kansas City leadership" has nothing to do with a state-wide trend.
Isn't there an overall absence of leadership on this topic in every Missouri city?
ReplyDeleteKC is a perfect example.
Oh yeah, not to be left out. Who cares how many niggers are murdered by other niggers?
ReplyDeletelame.
ReplyDeleteLOL -
ReplyDeleteWhat a statement: "Don't pay any attention to the data."
Like WTF?
Then why collect it, if your just going to ignore it? And people scratch their head and wonder why KCMO is setting record crime while the rest of the country declines? With this type of thinking nothing will get done.
What do people like Al Brooks and Gwen Grant have to say about this? If you really want to hear that everyone else is to blame and listen to all the tired old excuses for criminal behavior, they'd be the ones to ask.
ReplyDeleteInstead of trying to shake down the taxpayers for more money to waste on their families and friends, what are THEY doing about the crime and vilence in their neighborhoods?
Gwen? Al?
And in the meantime they are remodeling the Police Headquarters building. Gotta have a fancy place to plop your lazy azz.
ReplyDeleteat the end of the day you still have black on black killing. when the police catch and prosecute these folk someone should ask them "why? why did you kill another black man?" then you could collect and collate the responses and soon you would know, without doubt, why black men in Missouri spend so much time killing other black men...
ReplyDeletewait...what?
oh...they Do ask the ones they catch why they did it? and it'a always the same ol' shit: money, guns, drugs, sex or some combination thereof?
well, fuck. sorry, but like ugly there ain't no cure for stupidity; both go to the bone...
"Isn't there an overall absence of leadership on this topic in every Missouri city?
ReplyDeleteLeadership? WTF, dude; do hispancis or asians nead "leaders" to explain, as though to childre, that they shouldn't kill other hispancis or asians? Do white people?
Does ANY ethnic group in America besides the blacks need lessons on why they shouldn't kill each other?
"Kansas City is a safe place if you don’t exhibit high-risk behaviors by being involved in or associating with those who are involved in violent crime and narcotics distribution."
ReplyDeleteUnless your one of the innocent caught in the cross-fire of a drive-by shooting.
50 ded niggas by July 4th this year! Put yo money on it!!!
ReplyDeleteThere are over 200 murderers runnin' around some of our finest zip codes in the city.. ..
ReplyDelete100+ murders every year, combined with 40-60% clearance rate, leaves 200+ "people" who got away with it in the last five years alone.. . . .
6:38 NAILS IT.
ReplyDeleteLook. I listened to the Chief's interview on NPR with Steve Kraske and have read all I can about the man.
Honestly, he is great. I really think he will make more of a difference than any other Chief to this point.
Really, I would encourage anyone who is interested to go on line and listen to this interview, I can't stress how impressive this guy is.
That said, TKC, the KC Star and the national approach to African American violence is ivariably an ad hoc approach, with emphasis on falacious generalizations that apologise and confirm de facto absolution for crimes committed by individuals, by way of those same falacious generalizations.
Institutional racisism, blah, blah, blah, oh sorry, are you bleeding?
Candle light vigils become the symbol of the begged African American violence question.
Here is the truth.
Without articulating it, without even knowing it in your conscious mind, there is this truth, this unshakable knowledge that in every contact with African Americans, at the grocery store, at the mall, in the street, the classroom, the work place, again, EVERY contact with African Americans comes with the threat of violence.
Settle down, stop screaming at your monitor, don't go into a trained, pre determined reaction.
It is the sad truth.
American glorification of African American violence is everywhere in our culture. The expectation of that African American violence is in commercials, sit coms, movies, news papers, blogs, it is EVERYWHERE and it is expected.
And, it should be expected.
It is what it is.
Here is the decision on a recent beating, by a court in Oregon.
What is interesting to me, is the way that America will jump through hoops to avoid the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-TJPh26ONA
Once again, there are thousands of reported attacks every year, and imo, tens of thousands of unreported attacks by African Americans that we, as a nation, are too afraid to acknowledge.
Once again Chuck nails it. I would add, just think how bad the situation would be, were it not for Alvin, Alonzo and all those candle light vigils. Analyse is what bureaucrats and people with NO STREET experience do. They're doing something, they can have committees, meetings, stay safe and accomplish NOTHING. Put the gangsters in prison and leave them there.
ReplyDeleteJust another example of why KCPD fails to get the job done.
ReplyDeleteYes..we all know that the "Black" people flew out of the country in thier private plane and brought the drugs into the communites. They have tons of fields of marjuana on Prospect. And they went and smuggled in the illegal guns because they are making money hands over fists. Oh wait, they are not manufacturing they are just using and making a small profit like a cashier in a grocery store. Maybe if you cut off the supplier, then you can make a dent in the problem.. Start discussing how to fix the problem instead of being racist and acting like it is a "black" problem and "blacks" are the root of all evil and crime..
ReplyDelete6:38
ReplyDeleteNAILS IT.
With that attitude little will be done.
1011 Sorry it doesn't work that way. As long as there is a demand for the product, there will be a supplier. It's a culture that is decaying black/white that requires these potent drugs. That CLOWN SHOW in Jeff City came up with all sorts of schemes to cut off meth production and end the meth problem. That's been a resounding success. Bottom line it's capitalism at it's finest, a supplier meeting a consumer demand. As long as there's a market, there will be a supplier.
ReplyDeleteEnd the ridiculous War On Drugs and clear out cells in prisons, for violent offenders.
ReplyDeleteViolence in African American culture is worsened, but not caused by drugs imo.
Violence, endemic and pandemic in African American culture is a learned behaviour that is exaberated by entitlement expectations by that same African American culture and low expectations from the rest of American culture.
Special treatment of so called "Protected Classes" of Americans is a de facto admission of the inferiority of that "Protected Class."
The egalitarian efforts, by way of social engineering laws and statutes that segregate rather than assimilate all Americans on the same playing field, do more harm than help to those "Protected Classes".
Diversity and multicultural excuses for abberant, violent, thuggish behaviour is the consistant outcome.
Execute with in the next 12 months every violent offender on death row.
ReplyDeleteExecute repeat violent offenders.
Violent offenders punishments by way of prison time, for rape and assault should be doubled.
Again, execute expeditiously all current inmates on death row and execute repeat violent offenders now.
The biggest reason for all of the "Eastside" troubles is a 60% dropout rate and parents for 2 generations not accepting responsibility for the children they have brought into this world. The welfare/poverty cycle is so entrenched in the psyche that NOBODY cares. Until this is rectified you might as well fence them in and airdrop pallets of guns and ammunition until it runs it's course. I feel bad for the individuals trying to "make"it legitimately that have to live in that cesspool of violence and crime.
ReplyDelete9:46 states KCPD fails to get the job done.
ReplyDeleteWhat alternative do you suggest? Instead of the police, who do you think should deal with this issue?
9:46--
ReplyDeleteOr instead maybe another example of why black parents fail to get the job done.
Judges need to be held accountable for letting violent offenders out of jail repeatedly. That's just one part of the problem not discussed so far.
ReplyDeleteHey Judges--2 years probation and community service doesn't deter violent crime. Your weak sentences are just as much of the problem!!!
Chris == KCPD is not doing the job.
ReplyDeleteThey have failed.
That still does not answer the question. Specifically how is the PD supposed to prevent black homicides or generally homicides themselves?
ReplyDeleteSpecifically how have they failed?
It's a statement not a question.
ReplyDeleteKCPD is not doing the job.
http://news.yahoo.com/north-carolina-death-row-inmate-writes-letter-life-152637993--abc-news.html
ReplyDeleteExecute these scum bags now!
I agree that judges also need to be held acountable. The fact that a guy got probation last week in Jackson County for killing a guy stealing his go cart with an ak47 is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteJermaine Reed is going to name every street Martin Luther King Blvd. in his next plan to curb violence and stimulate the ghetto economy.
ReplyDeleteHere's another KCPD winner.....
ReplyDeleteKC police have red faces over red-light camera fiasco
Kansas City Star Editorial
In preparing a new report on the effectiveness of red-light cameras, the Kansas City Police Department barreled through a great big caution signal and crashed head-on with a public relations disaster.
The sloppy study that came out this week has embarrassed the agency, and deservedly so
Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/police-have-red-faces-over-red-light-fiasco/#storylink=cpy
Stop spamming Star losers.
ReplyDeleteDEar Mr. Tony: I have great respect for Chief Forte and feel that he has unertaken some valuable crime fighting initiatives, but he is wrong about this study on black homicides in Missouri. Yes, the data is two years old--but the homicides totals for blacks in KCMO were quite high in 2010 and 2011--81 in 2010 and 88 in 2011--compared to 81 in 2009. Particularly alarming is that these high black homicide totals come at a time of major reductions in homicides all over the country--since 2006 most cities have seen significant reductions in homicides for all races. And KCMO? We had 62 black homicides in 2007--vs. 95 in 2008, 81 in 2009, 81 in 2010 and 88 in 2011. "KCMO, we have a problem." Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ernest Evans.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the Police Have yet to figure this out.
Blame Bush
ReplyDeleteBlame Obama...and his momma!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Chuck. I say execute violent offenders and these coward killers will think the next time they want to pull the trigger. Stiffer crimes have detered crimes in the past until the liberal democrats complained that it was to harsh for the offenders. They would change their tune if one of their family members was murdered or they themselves were a victim of a violent crime. Retribution is the best way. The offender should die the same way he killed the victim, Period! The old saying," An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!" kill the bastards and crime will reduce. They dont want to be rehabilitated anyway. They only learn how to commit more crimes while in prison.
ReplyDeleteHey Black leaders reading this. Publicly stand up and hold judges accoutable for weak sentences! People cant be repeat offenders when they are incarcerated. Do something good for the black community for once!
ReplyDeleteHey Tony--call for Judges to have stronger sentences!!! Especially in Jackson County. We all know they are one part of the problem!!!
ReplyDeleteIts like a "T" cell going after a tumor - let it be and let it take out the trash.
ReplyDeleteDr. Evans--
ReplyDeleteHmmm so the homicide rate went up in 2008--wait, wasn't that the year when the police had their pay salaries frozen?
Just sayin...
Better order lots more candsles.
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