Kansas City Shootings Trend Upward

This cowtown continues to confront more gunfire over the long term. 

Whilst homicides are keeping pace with record-breaking numbers . . . A recent report reminds locals that rampant gunfire in general has also impacted thousands of local lives. 

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Although non-fatal shootings are down so far this year from 2022, over the longer term, they have risen in Kansas City, thanks to few gun laws and a wave of machine gun-style weapons in the streets.

Since 2015, non-fatal shootings have grown by nearly 30%, from 414 that year to 537 in 2022, according to Kansas City Police Department data. The number spiked during the pandemic in 2020 when 630 people were shot but not killed. As of September 10, there are 355 of what KCPD calls “living victims” this year.

Meanwhile, the homicide rate is on course this year to break the record set in 2020, when 182 people were killed.

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Hundreds of Kansas Citians are shot each year and survive. Their families have to pick up the pieces

Homicides could set a record again this year as non-fatal shootings are down from last year, likely because of deadlier guns on Kansas City's streets. But overall, since 2015, shootings that leave a survivor are rising slightly - meaning more families are struggling with the physical and mental wounds they cause.