Kansas City Police Defund Cont'd?!?!

Here's an alternative idea . . .

MAYBE INCREASING POLICE FUNDING AMID HISTORIC HOMICIDE TRENDS MIGHT HELP STOP THE KILLING!!!

Meanwhile, here's the 12th & Oak plan already in action . . . 30 MILLION BUCKS directed to no show jobs for activists will/won't buck the trend.

Here's today's chapter in the ongoing argument . . .

The council voted on that addition at Thursday’s meeting, but it failed. Mayor Quinton Lucas was one of the ones who voted against that extra funding.

“When she presented that amendment and we all learned about that amendment the day of the meeting, it was not laid out what precisely that was going to,” Lucas said in an interview with FOX4 after the public part of KCPD’s Board of Police Commissioner’s meeting Tuesday.

Lucas said the city will likely give $280 million to the Kansas City Police Department this next fiscal year, a 6% increase from what the department got last year.

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

Kansas City Council strikes down extra $5 million for police department

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Councilwoman Teresa Loar tried giving the Kansas City Police Department an extra $5 million for the next fiscal year, starting May 1. "More police officers means safer streets," Loar said during Thursday's meeting. Loar was referencing a former U.S. attorney general who spoke three weeks ago.