Amid this already bloody Summer in Kansas City, the topic of increasing violent crime is at the forefront of the local conversation for people who really care about this town and aren't being paid to push another taxpayer subsidy.
Here's the sitch . . .
Kansas City counted 53 murders at this time last year, currently the official number stands at 76 -- A 43% increase year-to-date.
Dr. Ernest Evans warned us: "In the twelve month period July 1, 2016--June 30, 2017 we have had 148 homicides in KCMO--making this the third highest twelve month period for homicides in the city's history."
However, this personal story about a "dream house" gone wrong offers an important perspective . . .
Fox4KC: Kansas City mom moves her family out of ‘dangerous neighborhood’
And so . . .
We know that life is nice inside luxury downtown condos or in the affluent sections of the Crossroads.
However, our takeaway from an EXCELLENT Fox4 report about Ruskin fading into oblivious brings us to this question . . .
IS KANSAS CITY BECOMING TOO DANGEROUS FOR YOUNG FAMILIES?!?!
We won't even delve into the slightly improving but still ongoing problems with the schools.
And notice that most of the development luxury life promo is focused on hipsters or biz people without many youngsters or primary/secondary education options touted for those who want to make their homes inside the loop.
Right now it's simply a question of survival against rolling gun battles, increase property crime and elected leadership who value Downtown development schemes over public safety.
You decide . . .
Of course it's not safe.
ReplyDeleteBut that's what you get when you buy more trains but don't check to see that there are more cops on the street.
Leawood only. IF you can afford it.
ReplyDeleteLots of hot Joco milf tail there and they all put out.
DeleteYes, they all put out and they all shave their pussies. They're very high maintenance
Delete^^^ No thanks, too many loonies. For that kind of money you could live nice downtown.
ReplyDeleteAs for raising a family in KC. Not a chance, just too much that can and will go wrong here.
Well yeah. We have too many negroes and we let them run loose, killing, robbing, raping.
ReplyDeleteIf you have children and send them to the KCSD, then you should be hung by the neck until dead and your children taken away.
ReplyDeleteHere is a nice video for you to watch, before you send your kids into perdition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-zttPCDqYU
This carnage stops right here and needs to stop right now. Trump needs to declare martial law in Kansas City and remove the current City Mayor and Council. Some major butt kicking needs to take place and to hell with butt hurt feelings.
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ReplyDeleteWestern Culture, now infused with Progressive, white, ethnomasochistic hatred for itself at the behest and insistence of our Cultural Overlords in the Media, Entertainment and in the halls of Academia, does not have the will to make a stand here, or, for that matter, in any other city that faces the dystopian entropy that accompanies Progressive excuses and lassitude for the violence in the face of creeping destruction.
ReplyDelete“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. … Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite.”
Cowed by the necrosis of a Progressive, Politically Correct ideology that dominates our lives 24/7, which consigns us to public humiliation in the stocks, loss of income, loss of job security, loss of possibility of promotion, outright violence and the social opprobrium of our neighbors, we live in an Orwellian World, where common sense and the unambiguated evidence of variables, promoted by those same Progressives destroy us, eat us alive, while we are forced to watch and endure in silence.
The Progressive Narrative of American Destruction is the creation of the 4th estate. Democrats are an arm of the "Enemy Of The American People" and that enemy is the Main Stream Media. This pernicious and insane Narrative is driven down our throats and T-Rexxed up our asses 24/7. It is an indefatigable, irrepressible, insistence that we are evil unless we acquiesce, stupid if we resist, liars if we call it our and in some cases, dead if we don't retreat from the physicality of the tip of the spear.
The tip of the spear, are the troops in the streets, the Obama-Brown-Shirt-Thugs who rape, murder and assault civilians with impunity at the instruction of Progressive Politicians.
Heroes like Michael Brown are born anew every day in this sick Narrative, but you had better not say it out loud.
Welcome to the new America, where the Progressive Singularity is at hand. Progressive Net wants to be Sky Net.
Totalitarian rules inflicted on those whose thoughts and speech run contrary to the Progressive Narrative is just around the LEFT corner.
^^^Nah. It's just you. Your afraid. Your a coward. Your life is a failure. Everyone is YOUR enemy. It's your fault your broke & alone. The rest of us are just fine.
ReplyDeleteyea chuck...but what are YOU gonna do about it? Nothing. You talk way too much. 8:20AM is right, you are a coward.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a dog in the fight, but I do think it is funny that anonymous posters are calling a guy a coward and not really answering his post.
ReplyDeleteActually the Degenerate Idiots at KCMO City Hall and the Jackson County Prosecutors office with their pathetic Soft on Crime Liberal agenda is whats making KCMO unsafe.
ReplyDeletetho they'll Deny any of that, as usual !!!!!
chuck, did the microwave or refrigerator deliver that screed?
ReplyDeleteOh no! The media did this??? The media?!? My God!!!! The media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm scared of the media!!!!!!! Grow up chuck.
ReplyDeleteOh it's a big problem! Brobdingnagian!
ReplyDelete(That's a word chuck actually used once)
I see Byron is up before noon today.
ReplyDeleteUgh. WHY would anyone move somewhere without thoroughly researching the neighborhood? If this dumb bitch had, and not been mesmerized with the rock-bottom housing prices in Ruskin, she would know it's been Little Africa since the late 80s. Wtf?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'd avoid living anywhere east of Quivira, and even then there are a few sketchy areas around.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be Metcalf. Before that it was State Line.
Not sure what's next. Lawrence?
Lawdy.
With its emphasis on subsidizing "luxury" apartments and entertainment facilities and its continued ignoring of neighborhood safety, infrastructure, utilities, and other city services that contribute to the quality of life for regular folks, it's too bad that KCMO government itself is actually creating a fantasy gated community downtown surrounded by a dystopia that few want to visit, much less live in.
ReplyDeleteAnd these are the same people who make believe they really are concerned about income inequality.
Sixth most violent city in the country.
Highest utility bills in the region.
Sales taxes as high as 11%.
Not even residents in the metro find this attractive, much less visitors, tourists, and conventioneers.
Looks like the movie set from years ago at 18th and Vine was just the start of make-believe.
Chuck, you mean it's the liberals and the media?!? The media and the liberals??? Oh my God!!!You mean to say the liberals and the media are in cahoots??? Dear God in heaven help us!!!!Please, oh God no! Not liberals and the media? The media? The liberals? The media and the liberals? OMG!!! Oh God no! Not the MSM!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!Am I hearing you correctly? It's the liberals and the media working jointly???? It just can't be!! Please God no!!! Not the liberal media!!! Please tell me this isn't true!Not the press not our dear sweet press! Working with the liberals??? I can't believe it!!! My God NO. Liberals, media, liberals, media, liberals, media, liberals, media, liberals, media, liberals media, liberals, media....OMG!!!!!!!!!!!God help us no! Not the media, not the MSM! No the liberal mainstream media. Liberals? Media? Together? Oh God no!!!!If I am following you, you are saying it is the liberal media working in cahoots with liberals and the media???? It just can't be!!! Media? Liberals? Oh God forbid no, no. no. no. no.no. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhere you gonna live?
ReplyDeleteEvery city in the nation is experiencing a rise in crime.
KC is one among the worst, worse then Chicago per capita.
Ya Gonna move to Tulsa? Have fun...
People drop the Liberal/Conservative annoyance, we are all in this together and it is our leaders who are dropping the ball, bitch at them, focus on them and not the other party.
lala land gonna build a wall against thugz. mexicans r welcome tho
ReplyDeleteLot's of obsessed Chuck fans here today.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would move, the city can't fix this. Get out.
chuck, I agree with you on the media though we differ in how we reached our positions.
ReplyDeleteOnce broadcast news was a loss leader for the broadcast media. They were under a mandate to serve the public interest. I'm sure in your younger years you heard that speil when the tv stations would sign off or a radio station had to renew its license.
Then in came the bean counters to turn it into a profit center. After Shrub was elected CNN took a turn to the right (not much) to keep viewers. And look at all the conservative commentators they have hired recently. Not because they believe in their principle but because money, money, money and more money.
And yes, making Mr Brown into a "hero" they picked the absolute worst candidate for that blue ribbon.
And the media seems intent on having reporters with no knowledge of guns or the people who own and use them legally to do stories after every home-grown terrorist attack here.
Google HL Mencken quotes on newspapers.
chuck, I invite you to join me in making a YouTube of this song I have linked at the end.
I think you are mistaken in your conclusions but I will stand up for you when people tell you to shut up.
How can I expect a fair trial if I don't make sure those who think differently don't have their day in court, so to speak.
The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crane?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw
Stop and frisk would be ok. Shoot and frisk would be a lot better.
ReplyDeleteOnly our hero chuck can stem this tide. He is leading a rag-tag bunch of heroes against the galactic evil empire-the 4th estate. Armed only with his thesaurus, chuck has led a brave rebellion against the The dark all-mighty lord & overlord-The Progressive Left. The Progressive Left who has vowed to destroy chuck no matter the cost, recently joined forces with the 4th Estate to end the rebellion and start a new world order. Chuck who has been gifted with the voice of the Force, which only makes itself known through chuck's microwave & refrigerator, has rallied the rebels on TKC. His explosive sermons on the evils of Dark Lord Progressive Left and his cohorts-the 4th Estate have set a fire under the sheep inhabitants of TKC. Using rallying cries of "the forces arrayed against this president every fuckin day" and the explosive "lickspittle press!" chuck has began his final assault. Will he prevail? Can the Progressive Left and the 4th estate combine to crush chuck? Tune in latter for more updates!
ReplyDeleteYou can tell when Chuck draws blood, the pigs squeal and squeal.
ReplyDeleteAs an experiment, I would love for Tony to require posters to reveal their real identities for one week. It would be interesting to see how far postings dropped off.
ReplyDeleteKC has made it's own bed. The reasons reside in KC and nationally as we continue to confuse diversity with tolerance of behaviour and attitudes that are just not acceptable. You are never going to change the attitudes or stop the behavior if all you do is blame whitey for too many blackies being in prisons. You are never going to establish rule of law when you have an entire political faction blaming 90 percent of society for the failures of 10 percent. You are never going to nurture responsible adult behavior when the answer to problems is stealing from the hard working Americans who produce and contribute and hand it over to the sloths as entitlements and their best argents are the deserve a higher minimum wage. You are not going to continue to work with shit and think you are going to spin it into gold. At some point society will incur enough damage to stand up and demand that the behavior and attitudes change or else. Frankly, I think it is past time for it, but I apparently have a much lower tolerance for bullshit than most folks.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post.
DeleteMurder is the sound of gentrification.
ReplyDeleteNews reports are saying extinction is worse than previously thought and the rich are the worst polluters.
ReplyDeleteThis is Mayor Sly James' legacy. Higher taxes and higher crimes. He needs to be removed from office.
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ReplyDelete11:43 Your post was so true. Same for 7:07 and 7:09 My tolerance is at it's end too!
Between the murders the ridiculous taxes, and worthless kcmo school district, you would have to be insane to move here, so your answer is yes, all of it
ReplyDeleteAlso with a worthless city government paying attention to building shiny new things we don't need
ReplyDeleteWhere is the recall petition?
ReplyDeleteFrank White, a baseball player, elected to run the County.
Sly James, a political nobody, won mayor not once but TWICE.
We need to pass a law that if less than 30% of registered voters participate in the election we will elect an official from a lottery of registered voters. This gives apathy a REAL voice.
They (the elite) are banking on our apathy; they engineer our elections so people feel like they have no viable options thereby eliminating the will to participate.
I say recall Sly. Make an example of someone. But barring that you must find a silver lining in the lead bullets.
Why would anyone want to move to Kansas City and if you live there why would you want to stay?
ReplyDeleteKCPD cannot get the job done.... pretty simple to see that.
ReplyDeleteI left Kansas City a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteGreat To see the place falling apart.
Why I left.
Furguson Effect, get your bullet proof siding nnooowwww.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect
KCPD is for losers.
ReplyDeleteIt's Business usual as KCPD.
ReplyDeleteGlad the Chuck Hater took a break at midday to address his Chuck PTSD. He's now back, giving Byron blowjobs.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit the Chuck is mad brave for posting his comment. Even if I don't agree, I see where he is coming from.
ReplyDeleteAs for the lady in this story. The post about the research was right on the money! You have to look out for your family first lady. Ruskin just ain't gonna cut it.