SHOCK!!! NORTHEAST NEWS CLAIMS "DEMOGRAPHIC DISPARITY" AND ASKS FOR A KCPD HOTSPOT FOLLOWING SHOOTINGS!!!
Read between the lines in a recent editorial from The Northeast News . . . Check this excerpt:
"We’re not real adept at massaging statistical data to favor one demographic or another, much like is being done now to keep Hot Spots in 30 or 40 sector. We have one primary goal and that’s improving neighborhood safety.
Since a previous commander at East Patrol successfully killed community policing in our area, and since there’s no local CDC to host weekly crime prevention meetings anymore, it’s pretty clear what demographic is on the receiving end of the resources designated Hot Spots receive."
Do your best to decipher that text . . . However, in the grand scheme of things the editorial simply makes a longstanding argument that Kansas City's Northeast area is once again being overlooked.
Additionally, it's worth noting that the headline straight up calls out The KCPD Chief:
Note to Chief Forté: No Northeast Hot Spot?
Again . . . Let's look at the big picture . . .
KANSAS CITY OPINION LEADERS AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS DON'T SEEM IMPRESSED WITH THE RESULTS OF HOTSPOT POLICING AND A GROWING NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS NOW FACE CHIEF FORTÉ!!!
After more than a year, it's fair to offer criticism from the community regarding hotspot efforts as neighborhoods hope to work toward fewer instances of violence in Kansas City neighborhoods for 2013.
DEVELOPING . . .
Well no, it's not a "hotspot", cause there's just not enough black folk up around there to make it worth our while..
ReplyDeleteI guess Theresa Garza Ruiz was so busy with all the other wonderful things that she claimed responsibility for, she just did not have time to do anything about this one?
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the Northeast HELP Center? Weren't they supposed to be coordinating block watches in NE?
ReplyDeleteUh, the foot patrols last year? Was that NOT community policing?
ReplyDeleteRemember how Chief Forte assured that the Hot Spot program would not displace crime to other areas? So this uptick must be just a statistical anomaly.
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ReplyDelete"Do your best to decipher that text . . .
OK.
The KCPD is ignoring the somewhat well-to-do (well...kinda sorta somewhat perhaps maybe) white people in the NE, who have tried to fix their properties up nicely and have the rare decent place to live in the cesspool known as Kansas City. Being all to politically correct, the author beats around the bush and whines instead of just letting it rip again the corrupt assholes in charge of the mayors office and police deptartment.
Solution: Get the fuck out now, before KC slides into the kind of hole Detroit is in and your homes end up worth $10K or less, and there are squatters, druggies and dead bodies in the empty ones all around you that have yet to be set on fire.
Forte quickly retreated to his black roots because he lost all support from everyone else. He has to pander to those who will support him when the Board of Police Commissioners go after him.
ReplyDeleteMy dog had a hotspot this summer. Is that the same thing or a more serious problem?
ReplyDeleteTake the lazy nags from th mounted unit and station them in the hotspots.
ReplyDeletePoor Northeast - it gets what it deserves, which is why we former residents bailed out when we could. No community CDC = Thank Scott Wagner and John Rizzo for bankrupting "Old Northeast"; and thank Scott Wagner alone for bankrupting Don Bosco. Both idiots "sat" on the boards of these grant-money-recepticles to embellish their otherwise non-existant resumes. Thank Northeast News publisher, Mike Bushnell for being a huge suck-up to both Wagner and Rizzo. Northeast is fucked because "Public Interest Custodians" like Wagner, Rizzo, and Bushnell fuck Northeast for their own gain.
ReplyDeleteHard to argue, 1:39. After 15 years of fighting it, I took my family and fled KC. Never been happier.....
ReplyDeleteFirst, the citizens of Kansas City are giving the police too much credit for solving crimes and working productively in the community, it just isn't happening. Second, the Notheast area would be better serve, as would alot of communities to band together and hire private security for your neighborhood association. The money now provided to KCPD for helicopters and large police stations could hire four thousand security officers and install thousands of cameras across the city and do more in reducing crime than what KCPD does now. This way, KCPD could do what it does best, run radar in school zones and on I-70.
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