Kansas City Mayor Q Wants To Waste More Money On Aim4Peace FAIL

As Kansas City's homicide problem worsens, we're getting signals that Mayor Q is without hope or a clue as to address the crisis. 

Even worse . . .

CHECK OUT MAYOR Q TALKING UP UNPROVEN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROGRAMS AND LOCAL EFFORTS THAT HAVE FAILED YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!

Here's the pitch . . .

Aim4Peace, Kansas City's model of Cure Violence Global, was implemented in 2008, but with limited data to prove it's effectiveness the program's budget has been cut year after year.

"We couldn't get that support that would allow it to be fully invested in properly and to have the impact that we would hope to see," said Dr. Marvia Jones, Kansas City's health director.

A key piece of the Cure Violence strategy is "interrupters," community members with strong connections and influence in a designated violent neighborhood. Some come with prior criminal backgrounds, but all work to intervene in an attempt to deescalate conflicts . . .

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas recently visited St. Louis, to observe its program's work.

"It was amazing to see the work, the de-escalation that's done and the prevention that's done," Lucas said. "That should be the story in Kansas City."

Now, here's what local newsies don't know . . . 

Aim4Peace suffered a controversial reputation in the urban core and was highly politicized.

It gets even more depressing than that . . . 

Aim4Peace started taking cuts after OUR KICK-ASS TKC BLOG COMMUNITY reported that their food budget was legendary and took up a shameful amount of 12th & Oak resources. 

And here's where it gets depressing . . . 

If this is the best plan Mayor Q is offering then he's got NOTHING. And his tenure has been the most violent in Kansas City history.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Mayor says Kansas City's violence interrupter program 'deserves real support'

Kansas City is renewing its efforts to interrupt crime before it occurs. Aim4Peace, Kansas City's model of Cure Violence Global, was implemented in 2008, but with limited data to prove it's effectiveness the program's budget has been cut year after year.