Kansas City suffered a notable uptick in murders over the last year as part of an overall trend of rising local violence connected to the drug cartels, domestic violence and the proliferation of illegal guns.
For now, the blue sheet UCR data reports 148 murders in 2019 which is a 7.25% increase over last year's total of 138 and closer to the 151 total from 2017 that nearly broke the 1993 record of 153 homicides.
Still, the Chief acknowledges that challenges he confronts and highlights some successes as well
Checkit:
KCPD CHIEF'S BLOG: A look back at the good things in 2019
Intro . . .
"As police officers, we’re in the business of being there when bad things happen. Therefore, we often become the topic of bad things in discussions. It’s hard for people who are always responding to horrific acts – like our city’s despicable homicide rate – to come up in the same conversation as really great things that happen in our community. As we reflect on 2019, however, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the good things in which our department has gotten to be involved."
Read the Chief's post in its entirety.
You decide . . .
Bringing back the CIOs was a big deal for KCPD. This was one of the best things that the Chief has accomplished and I'm glad it's still a priority for him. He is doing the right thing in this regard and listening to neighbors and the community.
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DeleteThe homicide count is one statistic out of many. Yet it's very important but overall I think taxpayers and home owners are satisfied with their police and the level of response they get when the call authorities.
Delete2:20p Speak for yourself. KCPD too a whole year to do DNA analysis after my house was broken into. Still no suspect in custody... satisfied... yeah, if that means totally disgusted then that would be true.
DeleteFor all the cost of "community outreach" KCPD could put a lot more officers on the streets.
ReplyDeleteIt’s 149 on the news channels, but there’s still at least three they haven’t announced, city hall and the popo don’t want the real numbers out there.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there’s Petersucker who is responsible for this mess as well, she’s treated the blacks worse then any slave owner evar did, If she had put murderers in jail the body count would be 1/2 of what it’s been since 2011. She has decimated the blacks by allowing the murderous blacks out on probation so they can killl again and again.
Keep the bullshit flowing Chief. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.
ReplyDelete3:11...could that be the plan?
ReplyDeleteJust tweet happy shit and people will believe it. Stuff like, police to introduce Unicorns for new mounted patrol.
ReplyDeleteWorks every time.
No wonder cops have the 25th most dangerous job in the nation.
ReplyDeleteWhy weren't the police their to stop the theft of Paseo street signs by sQuintworth?
ReplyDeleteRemember shotspotter? Anybody?
ReplyDeleteI remember. What happened to it?
DeleteMeanwhile, in Baltimore...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/baltimore-city-breaks-murder-record-century
Was raining bullets in Hyde Park last night.
ReplyDeleteKCPD releases report on overnight gunfire
KMBC
Crime Infested Shit Hole
ReplyDeleteNo amount of hype and hoopla can camouflage it anymore.
^^^^ +10000000000
ReplyDeleteJust like sLIE, Lucas claims to be a man of the hood but yet he can’t tell these dumb mutha’s to stop, I’m starting o believe both those idiots lied about “growing up hoodrats”
ReplyDeleteThe police don't show up, be it for the 4th of July or New Years Eve. The police are hiding in the stations. The non-emergency is manned by officers and answers within a few rings. 911 doesn't answer after 15 minutes. The police chief is racist. The police chief doesn't care about the non-WASP citizens. The "Community Interaction Officer" is nothing more than an officer no longer fit for duty. The CIOs do nothing more than make excuses for the incompetence of the department as a whole. The police don't show up. The police are neither understaffed nor underfunded.
ReplyDeleteOh my...Miss your meds today? Nothing you vomited here on TKC is even CLOSE to accurate. Whoever your "sources" happen to be are certainly having fun with you.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for the American public to decide what we want from law enforcement. Warriors? Counselors? Guardians? Priests? Social workers? Magicians?
ReplyDeleteDo we want the cheapest cops possible? Or, do we want well-trained and well-screened cops who are equipped with every tool needed for every possible eventuality?
As long as cops get recruited from the human race, they're going to be exactly human, with everything that means.
Or do we want the beat cop from grandaddy's hometown, with nothing but a smile, a wheelgun and one set of cuffs?
Really, we want it all. Admit it, we do – and we want it all without paying for any of it.
Every officer needs to be an empathetic, well-spoken, SEAL-trained ninja, with double majors in psychology and social work, who considers the job a calling, and has no bills to pay, no nerves to fray, and enforces the law completely objectively while also using discretion at all times, unless it's going to result in arresting – or not arresting – the wrong person at the wrong time, for the wrong thing, in the opinion of every member of the public.
If that person existed, he wouldn't work for you. So we've got to deal with what exists, and what exists are humans.
Humans are fallible, and their bodies are frail. Their brains play tricks on them when they're under stress, and then keep them from sleeping by replaying the stressor on an endless loop later, trying to find ways to "fix" whatever went wrong.
Humans come in varieties, not exactly like dog breeds, but close enough that the analogy works: If you need a bite dog, you don't start with a Golden Retriever. Possibly, you can teach the Golden to bite on command, if you're persistent enough, and mean enough, but in the process, you'll ruin everything that made him a Golden to begin with.
Now translate that back to people.
Warriors, soldiers and great war generals like Patton may live for the fight but they don't always play well with others after the battle. They can be harsh. They can use bad language in settings where you wish they were polite. They find humor in ugly, dark places that just frighten the rest of society. They're not always...nice.
If you want only a cuddly, soft, empathetic officer whose first response is always a soft answer and compassion, you can have that. She'll never embarrass her chief at Coffee with a Cop. He'll present well on camera every time and remind you of someone's grandfather. He'll be the perfect SRO until there's an active shooter at your kid's school.
Suddenly, society insists on the warrior.
They want the demon Malinois, 55 pounds of rawhide, spring steel and gator teeth, driving into the gunfire and doing anything it takes – anything – to keep the children safe.
And once the threat is gone, society wants the Malinois to morph back into the therapy dog. They want the warrior gone, the counselor returned, the off switch thrown.
That's not how it works.
And it's not fair.
I tell you now: the unicorn doesn't exist. You can't have it. What you can have is a human.
If you recruit well, conduct thorough background checks and train constantly, you can have a human with a kind heart and good ethics who is willing to fight hard, be uncomfortable and even get hurt for you.
You can have a human who tries. You can have someone who struggles, who sometimes fails, who gets better with time and experience and who has setbacks.
But you can't have perfection. In fact, you can break perfectly good humans by insisting they be something they can't be – things no one can be.
Decide now that as long as cops get recruited from the human race, they're going to be exactly human, with everything that means. The rest of society is also human, after all.
Maybe it's time we decide what we want from the rest of us, too.