TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! KANSAS CITY POLICE UNION PUSHES BACK ON PROPOSED REDUCTIONS & CITY HALL BUDGET CUTS!!!
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Fox4KC: Newly passed budget not enough to prevent KCPD layoffs according to FOP
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City Spokesman Chris Hernandez confirms Police Chief Forte asked for 4.2 million dollars, but the police department only received one million dollars.
Lemon said of the 50 police officer positions that will be eliminated, 30 are currently vacant and will no longer be filled. He said 20 officers will lose their jobs.
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Did you see the Reed quote, TKC? He'd rather watch his own community die than risk working for more police to protect people. Guy is a shameful excuse for a "leader" in every sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteThen why were you people sucking his dick when it came to his reelection? Reed is no different than any of the slick ass politians before him. Everthing about them is a lie. He's also one of the dumbest. It's about the position, he hasn't and doesn't intend to help anyone but himself. Poverty made him that way.
DeleteWhy in the freaking hell would Lyin' Sly James want to cut the police department budget.
ReplyDeleteIs he crazy? Certifiable? (officially recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder)
Maybe Sly is suffering from paranoid delusions as well?
ReplyDeleteVOTE NO ON THE EARNINGS TAX!!! SEND CITY HALL A MESSAGE!! STOP THE WASTEFUL SPENDING AND PROTECT YOUR CITIZENS!!! VOTE NO OM
ReplyDeleteN THE EADNINGS TAX!!!
All the economic development schemes, all the tourism dreams, all the Chamber of Commerce hype is useless when crime is rampant. So what does KCMO do? Doubles down on TIFs and tourism, gives raises to firefighters and cuts the police budget.
ReplyDeleteKCMO is in the top ten most dangerous city's in America and this brains for mush Mayor is piece mealing the police budget?
ReplyDeleteVoting for etax wont change that dynamic, 9:40am. KC is still dangerous with or without etax.
DeleteVote NO on etax. Public safety sales tax of 2010 is still in effect. No other City in the metro charges a 10% sales tax. 18% on hotel accommodations. Jesus people. City Hall has money! Plenty of it!
ReplyDeleteSomeone should look at Schedule XI Page 385 of the proposed budget which reports on the Public Safety Sales Tax Fund. There is $2,603,000 in Redirections. In my questioning of the staff regarding the Redirections I was told it is TIFs. Also, look at Transfers Out to to the General Debt and Interest category, $11,805.288. With the total Sales Tax Revenues of $20,000,000 these categories leave a mere $6,064,013 in the Public Safety category.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the legislation for how the Public Safety Sales Tax was to be spent, but I suggest that funding police would be an appropriate use of these rather than TIFS and Debt Service on the existing TIFs development projects.
This is only one example of how sales tax revenues are "redirected"
Exactly my point. If they have money to redirect to other places...they have the money.
DeleteSounds like it time to fire a worthless city manager.
DeleteWhere is it written that bureaucrats can never loose their jobs or be laid off? Kmart and Walmart fire people after every Christmas over dollars. They have to survive in a world where their revenue isn't guaranteed or handed to them on a silver platter. Time for KC to change from the Sugar Daddy Citizen model and try establishing priorities based on citizens needs and desires instead of local pissant politicians big dreams and pet projects.
ReplyDeleteThis is not going to cost 20 officers their jobs. It means that 20 possible officers won't get hired. The PD is not going to lay off anyone, they will do the same thing they are doing with the current 30 vacant positions, they just won't fill them as older officers retire. The mayor, city council, Forte, and Lemon are trying to scare the citizens to pass the e tax. Make no mistake not one officer will lose their job, but in the end 50 positions will not be filled over the course of the next couple years. If the e tax passes, you watch, the city will come up with the extra money to fill the budget the pd wanted. Wanna hear a scare tactic go to the northland meeting and listen to the lies that Lemon will tell you.
ReplyDeleteThe public safety tax, I voted against the first time and the second time. The pd and the city wasted the money on buildings that are a complete waste. The city moves the money around where they want and it isn't used as it is supposed to. What a joke.
This PD needs help, we have enough sworn officers. The real problem is that we are almost 40% sgt. and above. Forte keeps promoting people and creating spots that are useless. You cant keep promoting people and creating units while taking from the field. Why is moral low? Cause their isn't anyone in the field, these guys are going call to call every day. They can't get a day off. Why cause we keep creating units and filling them with field people and not replacing them.
The northland, you better organize and take your fight to city hall, North Patrol had their number of officers reduced by 12. Shoal Creek, same story. The biggest area of the city land base and the fewest officers. Time to take this mayor, council, and Forte to task.
It is sickening how short the field is. Too many chiefs and too many specialized units. They need to put people back in the field. Get rid of Capital Improvements, Mounted Patrol, Research and Development and others. Also, take a bunch of the Sergeants in specialized units and make them work the field.
DeleteThe self defeating part of the local plan is that crime counters all kinds of hotels and promoted events. Just ask Detroit. So, if the city believes it's own BS the council is killing itself.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is the city has never invested much for modern police technologies and until they grasp the real costs of reducing crime and stop blowing the money on bullshit they will never reduce the one problem that draws revenue away from Kansas City.
Hey buddy! ^^^^ The police have license plate readers now. Lol
ReplyDeleteWe need a state audit on the public safety sales tax. The state requires the city to show how those funds were used. It's not supposed to be redirected to Tiff or anywhere. The City's bad behavior continues to go unchecked and unabated. Missouri Auditor, MoAGO and the FBI should investigate.
ReplyDeleteHow many KCFD fire fighters will lose their jobs? How many deputy chiefs in the Fire Department will lose their jobs? How many take-home vehicles are being removed? These are the questions that the news media should be asking the elected officials.
ReplyDeleteElected officials are liars. Ask all you want, you'll never get the truth.
DeleteI don't feel bad for any officer losing their job (if that would really happen) Police agencies all over the metro are hiring.
ReplyDeleteYou're an idiot.
DeleteGood article.
ReplyDeleteBoo hoo. 20 cops will lose their jobs. How many other city hall employees in non police or fire departments have lost their jobs in the past few years because of that tyrant Troy Schulte?? How much money has city hall paid out because of wrongful termination? Why does Schulte still have his job??
ReplyDeleteThe best part of Troy Schulte ran down the cracf his momma's ass and ended up leaving a brown stain on the mattress.
DeleteThe Northland doesn't contribute enough to the tax base to justify the amount of PD and Fire protection it has. Smaller population than Overland Park.
ReplyDeleteThe Northland needs residents if it wants services. Maybe cheap, low-rent sprawl wasn't the best idea...
The public safety sales tax was strictly for infrastructure and has not contributed anything to the annual police budget. Don't confuse it for anything going towards salary for officers.
ReplyDeleteYou need to read the memo. Last pages state tax revenue was to go towards hiring and salaries. Don't worry about facts. I know what the public safety sales tax was intended to cover but the creatives at KCPD found a way to manipulate the books to cover video/media crews, catering, a slush fund for Miles, and a bunch of other unnecessary bullshit. Open the City books on it. You'll see that there's a boatload of things that should not have been purchased using those taxes. City and KCPD have a well documented history of misappropriation. I'm not confused 5:10. You are or must be assuming that the people pulling the purse strings are honest. They are not.
ReplyDeleteI say Lay-off the cops for the past 5 years it's always been city hall workers who were laid off.
ReplyDeleteBut don't touch those 700+ KCPD take home cars!
ReplyDeleteI hope the parking control division is completely eliminated. Assholes
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