TKC MUST READ!!! POLICE CHIEF REVEALS CITY HALL CUTBACKS TAKE 100 OFFICERS OFF KANSAS CITY STREETS!!!
In a lukewarm statement that his rank & file officers demand, Kansas City Chief Of Police Darryl Forté offers one stunning fact.
Check it along with a link to his full blog post . . .
"The budget approved by the Council includes money to hire 48 new officers, but our average turnover is 58 officers per year. So with our current 89 vacancies, this will leave us with almost 100 vacancies by the end of the year . . ."
The reality is this . . .
RANK & FILE KANSAS CITY POLICE ARE SCREAMING MAD ABOUT THE CUTS AND THIS DIPLOMATIC ADVOCACY FROM THE CHIEF DOESN'T REPRESENT THE ANGER OF LOCAL POLICE AND NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCATES!!!
The Chief is politically aligned with Mayor Sly but these cuts demand that he speak out and take action . . . In the meantime, cutbacks continue to coincide with more Kansas City violence and homicides.
Developing . . .
KCPD chief should support his officers and not politics.
ReplyDeleteTKC, be honest with your readers and remind them that public safety already represents 75 percent of the budget.
ReplyDelete^^^^ That's misinformation. The police just earned their raise. Meanwhile, the police are busy showing signs of support for the e-tax.
ReplyDeleteWhat raise? I haven't gotten a step increase in two years
Deletetake cops off the streets you take crime off the streets.
ReplyDeleteTKC, be honest with your readers and remind them that public safety is the most important and basic responsibility of any level of government.
ReplyDeleteAnd without it, all the streetcars, hotels, tech toys, grandiose announcements, and all the rest don't amount to squat.
Be sure to vote to renew the e-tax.
Mike Burke's hotel is going to need even more of your money.
They don't know whether its 30 officers or a 100. As the time for voting draws nigh, there will be other overstatements about police budgets and their ability to pay for things and its all one big lie. Thanks for playing.
ReplyDeleteWhat the Chief doesn't mention and doesn't want the citizens to know about is all the new specialized units he has created and the over - promoting of Sergeants and Captains that just took effect yesterday. Promotions that were not filling any vacancies. He's calling it the mentoring program!! All the new units and promotions took Officers out of the field.
ReplyDeleteNot even the chief of police has any integrity on this E Tax bullshit. How desperate!
ReplyDeleteso in fact the cops have been off the streets already thanks to unfilled vacancies and you're just twisting the truth to fit your goofyass agenda.
ReplyDeleteMore cops off KC streets, more crime. Simple math. Too bad our mayor doesn't understand it!
ReplyDeleteWith respect to the Chief. I think it's time for a change. I don't agree with all of his overtime payments and I don't want the next chief spending so much time on Twitter. KC needs better than all of this politics surrounding our police department.
ReplyDeleteLook to Africa; having been on that continent for millions of years the native population never developed the wheel, never domesticated the zebra or any other animal, never figured out how to develop and sustain any type of crop. Hell, they have never managed to domesticate themselves! Why then should YT expect anything different just because they have been transplanted to North America? Time to admit YT unwittingly introduced an invasive and dangerous species and take appropriate measures to eradicate it from our shores."
ReplyDeleteI was thinking, scientists are always telling us how human life started in Africa, and that the dark continent is the mother of all civilization.
If that's true, imagine how damn motivated our forebears must have been to get the hell away from these savages! Picking up any damn flotsam they could find to make a boat, saving up scraps of food for the trip....risking death in the huge ocean was actually seen as preferable to living with them! Please join me in celebrating 15,000 years of white flight!
Are you out of your mind?!
DeleteI'm thinking KCPD has at least 12-15 captains promoted in the past year that don't even have a real assignment? I wonder how many officers Chief Forte could employ for that total salary expenditure? Maybe 35 or 40 officers that actually work the streets......
ReplyDelete8:16 More cops on the streets never reduces crime and there are scores of studies to show that. Unless officers are appropriately utilized having more just generates more "do little" bureaucrats. Unfortunately KC has a long history of using officers in counter productive ways.
ReplyDeleteAnd keep in mind, the 6 Captains that the Chief just promoted that have no assignment and are not commanding anyone also received brand new cars to take home at a cost of about $40,000 per car
ReplyDelete9:13 - "...scores of studies to show that." Really? Can you provide even one to support your claim? A citation of a credible source document, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI'm don't quite understand the Chiefs math, but that's beside the point. The politics of fear is always a slippery slope. The real issue for me and what most comments here fail ro reflect and address is that no one is willing to admit that if not for the E-Tax and the $240 million dollars that it generates would at the end of the day the sole burden of KC residents when at present it is shared equally by residents and those that live outside the city.
ReplyDeleteDespite what the Chief and the Mayor have chosen to make their case for the tax, if the tax is not renewed then it's KC residents who will suffer and bare the burden. The larger issue for me is that its very hard to hold our elected officials accountable with voter turnout of 11% overall and a 7% within the 3rd and 5th districts. Why should any of them care what we really think or want if we don't even try to get involved in the process. Moral of the story: it is what it is because we allow it to be what it is! My name is Forest Tyson, Jr. (not anonymous) and I approve this message!
KCPD is top heavy. Cut at the top, not the resources at the street.
ReplyDeleteWhat if they're cutting officers they need to cut the corrupt ones like detective Robert Blehm. He is very corrupt and he should have been fired a long time ago
ReplyDeleteany older cops out there remember a detective willie wilson? he was in homicide.short black guy.
ReplyDeleteGood Layoff the cops, City hall has been taking the layoff s for the past 5 years. Time for KCPD to take it's share of the budget cuts.
ReplyDeleteKCPD has plenty of cops TOO many cops have do nothing desk jobs. Put them in patrol cars.Not behind the desk. Get rid of Planning and research they have cops in that unit that have not made an arrest in 15 years.
ReplyDeleteThe toy choo choo will solve all our problems. Just ask trolley boy.
ReplyDeletekc police has taken more then its share of budget cuts why dont they attack the fire dept on budget cuts after all more then half of them have other jobs.
ReplyDeleteThis is a no brainer. Since half of the tax payers live outside the city just have cops 8 hours a day so the tax payers get their moneys worth. When your shift starts at work the cops can come out, run speed traps, ticket and tow your vehicle to raise even more revenue for poor little Kanshit City. When your shift ends the cops can go back to making the real bucks working off duty at events, the sports complex and protecting grocery stores and motels from the city's coons. The pastry shops and convenience stores might loose a little revenue, but otherwise I doubt anyone will notice.
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haha i like your plan sir it might just work !!
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