Kansas Progressives: Ignore Rising Crime Or You're Racist!!!

Local agenda bloggers offer insight on midterms and an issue wherein they're losing voters from every demographic strata. 

To wit . . .

IT'S DEVASTATING TO WATCH ALLEGED PROGRESSIVES ARGUE AGAINST CRIME PREVENTION IN THE URBAN CORE!!!

Don't take my word for it . . . Here's the line from a prominent local prog blog . . .

The United States represents 5% of the world’s population but houses 25% of the world’s prisoners. It’s a stunning irony. The safest people seem preoccupied to the point of neurosis with safety and comfort. If locking people up made us safer, we’d be invincible now.

But demands for extreme safety and comfort — namely from a privileged minority living in wealthy suburbs as well as in cozy rural communities — tend to come at the expense of the majority and remain a luxury we can’t afford.

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

Demand for 'extreme safety' presents its own dangers as Kansas elections approach - Kansas Reflector

Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Mark McCormick is the former executive director of The Kansas African American Museum and a member of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission.