TKC BLOG COMMUNITY TOLD YOU SO!!! KANSAS CITY POLICE TAKE BUSTED AND BROKE CITY HALL BUDGET 2015 HITS!!!
Last week some of the smartest Kansas City insiders warned us that police would be taking budget hits AND they implored the Chief to stand up for them.
That didn't happen and now the KCPD are soon to lose important support staff and face a cut back in resources despite Kansas City's approval of a public safety tax.
The reality is that there are fewer fires and more violence and murder in this town.
But it gets worse . . . Public safety funding could be a complex and lively debate that deserves the attention of skilled pros on both sides of the aisle and not just some dork blogger and angry firefighters making death threats against me and my family . . . Meanwhile, this town is simply spending most of it's cash on the toy train streetcar that's simply based on patronage, politics and eco-devo pipe dream schemes.
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Fox4: KCMO passes budget, but police say more money needed for force to keep up with expenses
KSHB: Kansas City Council members adopted a new budget on Thursday that could mean a workforce reduction for the Kansas City Police Department.
Newspaper: KC Council adopts budget with big increases for pensions, fire
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No tears will be shed here. The police department has never been able to do their job. NEVER. They have NEVER deserved an increase in funding beyond an adjustment for inflation.
ReplyDeleteThey are unaccountable thugs. That may seem harsh but they are accountable to NO ONE. The residents pay for a police force they have no voice over.
Cut baby Cut!!!!
Let the County departments take over policing.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, the streetcar and single terminal airport will fix everything.
ReplyDeleteSo they get 4 mil more than last year and they are complaining.... Wow just wow!
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteThey have been practicing their extortion techniques on suburban drivers.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry tiffs and tax abatement's given to developers with limited liability (LLC) are going to bring in the revenues needed to get CKMO out of the red and back into surplus.
ReplyDeleteNot really a problem. It is KCMO city policy to encourage their good citizens (aka thugs) to take their trade to Johnson County, Kansas.
ReplyDeleteSo far, it's working pretty well.
I can understand better now KCMO's shift from a Currency-Based Economy to the CKMO Beer-Based Economy.
ReplyDeleteTony they're cutting bullshit support office people. Just like you preach about them doing at city hall. The cops have gone to a all electronic ticketing system, so they don't need all those extra office folks. Sorry! Cut the fat piggies!
ReplyDeleteWhat a mess KC is. Here we have right at the highest sales tax (10.3 percent) of any city in the United States (doe your own research) and we just can't make ends meet. Time for lucid people to vote.
ReplyDeleteKansas City Council members adopted a new budget on Thursday that could mean a workforce reduction for the Kansas City Police Department.
ReplyDeleteErmagawd! Hide your wife and kids! Po-po be out of money. We is dead!
Still no water department audit. Interesting.
ReplyDeletewhats good for the police dept also should be good for the fire dept and water dept. so how come the water rates keep going up and fire dept overtime keeps climbing city auditor needs to check up on fire and water dept
ReplyDeletewrong 11:23 Fire and Water are accountable to the City. The police are not. Give the money to CITY departments, screw the PD they mismanage money because they can.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that the PD is not accountable to the city is a crock. As long as the city has the power to cut jobs, pass ordinances and put their political pals on the police commission then PD is about as much under state control as Al Queda.
ReplyDeleteThen tell your FOP leadership to get behind local control 1138.
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No local control, asshats! Not while I'm a voter. What we can do is figure a way to fund the police department independent of the City. Ask Governor Jay or whomever is governor to have voters decide who should be on the Board of Police Commissioners. Alvin Brooks is no voter's choice. Although he's hanging on for dear life, he was a poor choice from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteFOP is a joke always has been!
ReplyDeleteI'm not about to get behind local control. Look how damn corrupt thins are in teh local political arena. Hell, no sense in further jacking up an already injured police department. What we need is for the state to come riding in here and seize the fuckin' city away from these local thugs..
ReplyDeleteThe current KCPD is more corrupt than City Hall. Its a cryin shame, but local control is the less corrupt of the two options.
ReplyDeleteThe mayor is pissed the FOP fucked him on his own commission and he lost local control. He has about zero chance of ever getting it as a mayor. Even if it was the best idea he won't ever see it. If there is any chance it will be the next mayor.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter what the cops do as long as Jean Peater Beater is doling out wrist slappings. Crime will only get worse.
ReplyDeletewho ever said that fire andwater are accountable to the city is nuts. those depts need to be audit by independent auditors
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