Kansas City Police Explain Property Crime Shift: Downsizing In Disguise???

Fair play . . . This is a great perspective from police that offers remarkable background on their motivations and operations.

But allow insiders a retort . . .

Some KCPD supporters fear that this is really nothing more than DOWNSIZING AND A RESPONSE TO AN ONGOING STAFFING CRISIS. Meanwhile . . . Local neighbors can accurately report much less help and longer response times for victims of property crime in the past two years.

Again, in fairness, here's the explanation . . .

Instead of each patrol division taking a generalized approach by geographic location toward property crime investigations, specialized sections within the department will take charge of the investigations city-wide, depending on the crime.

Three new sections, which were formed in mid-September, consist of an auto crimes section, a burglary section and a stealing section. The economic crimes section remains unchanged . . .

While investigator offices and locations remain unchanged, they will now be grouped based on specialization.

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

KCPD implements specialized sections for property crimes investigations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department announced Sunday that it has shifted approaches when it comes to responding to property crimes. Instead of each patrol division taking a generalized approach by geographic location toward property crime investigations, specialized sections within the department will take charge of the investigations city-wide, depending on the crime.

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