The recent nice weather in this cowtown seems to be bringing out violent tendencies among the populace.
COUNT TWO MORE HOMICIDES TO THE ALREADY TRAGICALLY HIGH NUMBER OF LOCAL MURDERS ALREADY THIS YEAR IN KANSAS CITY!!!
A recent domestic death discovery has now been declared a homicide: Murder Charges Filed Against Man In Death Of Girlfriend
And the morning hours bring another death at a drive-by scene: Kansas City Police investigate an apparent homicide in southeast Kansas City
The big picture . . .
KANSAS CITY IS COPING WITH EVEN MORE LOCAL MURDERS AND VIOLENCE WHILE MAYOR SLY AND THE CITY COUNCIL ARE NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT BENEFIT CUTS FOR COPS BUT ALSO FUNNELING CASH TO TOURIST ATTRACTIONS!!!
This is kind of an important point to keep hammering home and it puts all of the PR initiatives from local politicos in perspective when their smiling and celebrating doesn't reflect reality on local streets.
DEVELOPING . . .
Killa city.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Circo doing on a boondoggle in New York while killers run rampant? Word is Russ Johnson is in London. Is anyone watching these clowns?
ReplyDeleteForte's Hot Spot's are a joke and not working at all.
ReplyDeleteKansas City hasn't had a competent police chief since Floyd Bartch. Forte and his pals are in way over their heads.
ReplyDeleteThat's right!! Police not doing enough!! (SARCASM). Let's not put blame on the thugs doing the crimes. Or the shitty school district. I know, MORE candle vigils!! That will work!!
ReplyDeleteKC Marketing Strategy--
ReplyDeleteRide the toy train and get popped in a drive by.
I agree forte and pals way over their heads , but as well his meeting with the community which very few showed up so no one must care !
ReplyDeleteBy the way we all know the police are supposed to change these people , what's wrong with them ?
ReplyDeleteAlso when you have thugs like forte and masters as well as the other upper half who don't get in trouble when they break the law what do you expect !
ReplyDeleteinstead of blogging. You should probably do something TKC. help instead of bitching.
ReplyDeleteT, you are to black-on-black crime what Katie Horner was to an F1 tornado: Shrill, overwrought and so very wrong on so many levels.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you want us to do ?
ReplyDeleteMust be forte's family the ones that are not in jail
ReplyDeleteThe Kansas Shity Police Department is a joke. And they wanted pay raises for poor performance.
ReplyDeletewell heck lets just load about 2 shooters in back of pick up trucks loaded with rifles and who know how to shoot and then just start driving the streets in the bad areas shooting anything and everything that moves.
ReplyDeleteThe police are not baby sitters and yes they do deserv a raise.
ReplyDeleteLet's be clear: KCPD OFFICERS deserve a raise. The command staff has screwed that place up so badly half of them should be fired.
ReplyDeleteI agree ! I'm in health care I understand what they go through and I agree the command staff is a problem but you have some very good police officers who don't deserve what they are dealing with. Forte should have never been hired !
ReplyDeleteForte was the best of the worst to be hired they should have hired from outside , how masters is still on the force is beyond me !
ReplyDeleteNiggers ruin everything!
ReplyDeleteThe City of Kansas City, MO solves its race problems by hiring the first Black person who expresses interest. It rarely has anything to do with qualifications or capabilities; ignoring the underlying issues in hopes that the problem will resolve itself. It hasn’t happened! Race remains the nucleus of those urgent discussions needed to move this City forward but white people are too scared to have an intelligent discussion about the matter and the way they deal with it is ushering unqualified, disconnected staff into positions of authority that only a handful of people in the community are championing. Black people are so desperate for power and authority that they will to do virtually anything to make their leadership a reality; including selling out a community in exchange for a tired, useless community center that they don’t have the funding to construct, support or maintain. The problem is nobody is buying into unqualified Black leadership and the issue of race remains a prominent issue; even in deafening silence about the matter.
ReplyDeleteAnd too, we continue to ignore the fact that Black children are raising themselves; leading to this type of ongoing violence. The only teachers they listen to are those tape recorded teachers on BET and VH1 or on the Atlanta Housewives. These lessons are too immature and unnecessary for a growing mind. Black families pay for television but won’t invest in education. They pay for tennis shoes they know tag their children as the next victim but they won’t invest in foreign language. It seems to me that arming children with more useful, educational weapons would yield better results than the mother of the slain crying at the church proclaiming what a wonderful son and person Tyrone was. Let’s face it! Tyrone wasn’t a good person, he was like so many others who fall prey to this type of violence. He probably, no doubt, was disrespectful, could barely read and write and didn’t graduate from high school. He was a person who contributed little to society; not because the opportunity didn’t present itself but because he and his family didn’t take the time to explore the opportunity. We all make choices…
Crime in Kansas City is an epic failure. It's been going for years. I work in healthcare and the number of people showing up to the hospital with wounds from violent crime is on the increase. The City needs to closely examine why public employees are not getting the job done. This has been going on way too long.
ReplyDeleteOh so now its the police who cause all this it isn't the choices these people make your right its everybodys fault but these people !
ReplyDeleteThe next step is forte is going to pull from north and south patrol so good luck to us who follow the rules !
ReplyDelete3/11/12 1:19 PM
ReplyDeleteYour funny. We want a pay raise without getting the job done.
The new program - pay for substandard performance.
Topic: prohibition on illegal drugs
ReplyDeleteCompare the current prohibition of illegal drugs to the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. from 1919 to 1933. They could've called it "The War on Booze," almost identical to the current decades long, failed, "War on Drugs."
When the Federal Government banned alcohol it didn't go away and people didn't drink any less. What happened was that a legitimate, peaceful industry with quality control measures and regulations was dissolved and the control of production and distribution of alcohol turned over to the black market. The folks running this new business handled things differently by necessity due to the now illegal nature of business, with guns, gangs, and violence. This is precisely akin to the black market pharmaceutical industry that the "War on Drugs" has perpetuated. What is the incentive for taking controlled substance manufacture and distribution out of the hands of quality controlled, regulated, pharmaceutical industry and handing it over to groups that you wouldn't send to pick up the mail, i.e. the black market, gangs, guns, and violence?
The only way I can see government justify the continued prohibition and criminalization of drug use is that it sustains the gargantuan prison industrial complex that has been rooted into United States culture, and economy. The prison industrial complex has gotten so out of hand that we are seeing more and more privately owned, for profit prisons being built with guarantees from government that they will be kept at least at 90% capacity so as to remain profitable for share holders. This is how governments can justify, albeit unethically, allowing the violence and killing that goes with black market pharmaceuticals to continue in North, Central, and South America. And folks, don't we see it out on the streets of Kansas City?
Where do you want the control of drugs? In the hands of the murderers willing to kill for their profits and control of local markets?
I do not. I argue for nation wide decriminalization of drugs, if only to end the violence.
Semper Fidelis.
I'd agree but we all aren't out selling drugs. What if we ignored the drug trade all together; got those increasing competent jobs that the country is convinced they don't have the workforce to perform. We have the workforce; they're just unskilled. Why? It would require these young and middle aged men/women to educate themselves. The choice is theres... but nobody is stepping up to the plate.
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ReplyDeleteI didn't say we all were selling drugs. I disagree with you about ignoring the drug trade altogether. The folks running the illegal drug trade are largely responsible for the street violence we see. The issue is that when we have a population that is undereducated, therefor unqualified for living wage, technical or professional jobs, it is a logical turn towards the lucrative pay by comparison illegal drug trade to survive and prosper.
I agree that a national focus on educating our public is long overdue and that the U.S. is falling way behind other modernized countries.
Your probably on to something cigarette guy but we won't decriminalize drugs because business is good. A lot of people on both sides of the failed war on drugs are making a butt load of cash. If I'm a drug prosecutor or judge or narc cop I'm happy with the status quo, I'm sending my kids to great colleges and probably have lots of toys thanks to the drug trade. And if I'm a dealer I'll live way above my means for a short time thanks to America's addiction to drugs. I'll be killed eventually or do several years in jail but I'm a dirt bag, I only live for today so who cares.
ReplyDeleteKCFD and Local 42's backed by the IAFF national, and a weak sell out city council is why your city is screwed, the money spent on fire prevention should be spent more on police and public protection from violent criminals.
ReplyDeleteLets look for a minuet, in KC who gets the most cash in public safety?...hmmm yup the fire dept...why? because they have a huge powerful union that has such political clout that they own the city government. (and they do)
Now lets take the cash the city puts into the fire department and then lets look at the deaths each year caused by fire in KC....Hmmmm one could say well there arent that many deaths because really there are not that many fires (do to stricter building and fire codes over the years)
Well homicides are a problem in KC has been for years, one would think that the city government would notice such a problem and make it a priority to render a solution...like increase the police force not only with personnel but along with spending the money on up to date technology that helps fight crime.
Kansas City is a wash out town, run by a self centered city government that does not address the real issues. One would only assume thats one reason your city has all the problems it does.
So what do you do about it? well nothing, the only thing you could do is research cities with lower crime rates, cities that spend tax payer money in more responsible ways...and move!