KANSAS CITY POLICE CONFRONT CUTS AMID MURDER SPIKE!!!

Right now KCMO is dangerously close to RECORD BREAKING pace for homicide. 

Whenever TKC mentions this topic on Twitter we always get a few of the Mayor's friends writing nasty things and that's cool but it doesn't homicide victims back from the dead or help grieving families.

One more time for the cheap seats . . .

MAYOR Q'S RELATIONSHIP WITH KCPD HAS BEEN COMPLETELY DYSFUNCTIONAL AND YET ANOTHER BUDGET BATTLE PROVES IT!!!

To try and repair his damaged reputation . . . The Mayor is offering officers pay raises as a kind of political bribe.

Because this story has KCPD fingerprints all over it . . . We're guessing the kind gesture isn't working.

And now, check the budget cut damage . . .

Currently, the communications unit is severely understaffed.

"We operate 24 hours a day, so we have to have people here so when others are off during the holidays, enjoying time with their families, a lot of our people are still here working," Tamara Bazzle, supervisor of police department communications, said.

More than a dozen positions are currently vacant. More civilian jobs could be on the chopping block with proposed budget cuts to the department.

From another part of this series . . . It seems that the current administration at city hall hates "the science" when it comes from police . . . 

In 2020, the Kansas City crime lab completed 12,000 reports. In 2021, just 10,000 reports were completed, primarily due to a lack of staff.

“Two thousand less lab reports a year means less facts for the criminal justice system, detectives, prosecutors, judges and juries. That has a ripple effect of being able to solve crimes,” Kansas City Crime Lab director Kevin Winer said.

Winer worries that fewer funds for the lab could compromise its ability to keep Kansas City safe with science.

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

KMBC 9 Investigates the impact of possible budget cuts on KCPD

When you think of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, images of uniformed officers with guns and badges may come to mind. But 30% of KCPD's workforce is made up of civilians, and hundreds of those jobs could be on the chopping block.KMBC 9 Investigates the impact of proposed budget cuts on jobs the department says it needs to function.It's the number everyone knows to call for help - 911.

Potential Kansas City police budget cuts could affect department's crime lab

There's been a lot of talk of potential budget cuts to the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department. Some of those cuts would equal job losses to some of the civilian workers inside the department.KMBC 9 Investigates found civilian employees make up about 30% of the department's workforce right now.

You decide . . .