An exceptionally gut-wrenching story of a robbery/murder is featured among today's crime news: Murder victim did a lot despite disabilities
According to KCPD Crime Stats, we're starting October with 81 KCMO homicides as opposed to 87 last year. Overall, a lot of hard work has pushed the KCMO homicide trend downward overall despite some serious setbacks along the way.
According to KCPD Crime Stats, we're starting October with 81 KCMO homicides as opposed to 87 last year. Overall, a lot of hard work has pushed the KCMO homicide trend downward overall despite some serious setbacks along the way.
I'm not sure who's doing "all the hard work" to reduce the violence and homicides unless it's the individual police officers on the beat. There's certainly nothing coming from KCPD HQ except for the so-called hot spot program and the rollout of the next big thins, the NoVa program imported from Cincinnati. Oh, and the shot spotter acoustic monitors that are located along the Troost MAX bus route, not because that's the best place foe them, but becasue they were paid for with leftover money from a transportation grant.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's not a sound from the east side leaders who continue their shakedowns and doing well themselves, while the neighborhoods around them continue to empty out and die.
Maybe some day some folks at city ahll and in the community will figure out that what they've been doing and funding for decades is doing nothing to reduce or even contain the violence.
But there's certainly nothing is sight to give anyone any hope.
Public safety and Poverty Pimps go hand-in-hand. Why resolve crime when there's so much money to be made and doleled out? As long as Adhoc Group Against Crime, Aim4Peace, Morning Star Baptist Church and the like continue to profit from murder, lets keep the cash flowing. After all there is nothing better than a dead nigger.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Tony: Thanks for posting this info. We are at 82 homicides for 2012--compared to 87 at this point last year. There has been some progress, as you say--Chief Forte's efforts to reach out to the community have had some positive impact. But, and this point must be remembered, we are still way above the crime stats for 2007--the crime surge in the city's black neighborhoods that began in the spring of 2008 shows no signs of slowing down significantly. Take care. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteThere it is again, ol' Benton Blvd, the MLK of KC. Seriously, black people know no bottom. Killed over $40. I'd say it's unbelievable but it is not. It happens all the time to and by black people.
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