Mayor Q Talks Gun Violence Amid Most Violent Tenure In Kansas City History

Remember that during his first Mayoral election campaign the Mayor promised to try and get homicides under 100 a year. 

Perspective from 2019: 

"The mayor said over the next 100 days, he’ll work with the goal to get Kansas City under 100 homicides next year. It’s something Lucas said will help preserve the innocence of all ages."

Since then . . .

Mayor Q's years in office have been the most violent in local history with TWO-RECORD BREAKING YEARS for killing on the books.

His latest statement on the topic seems defiant but not very hopeful . . .

“I will never give up on trying to fight gun violence,” Lucas said.

On Tuesday, Lucas met with the city’s Police Chief and Board of Commissioners. Lucas hopes some changes to KCPD will stop the violence.

“We have increased police salaries by 30%. The goal is we need to hire more officers. We need to be able to solve more crime,” Lucas said Wednesday. “I know there may be some watching and saying, ‘How is this plan different from the last one?’ You know what? We are going to keep trying ‘til the day we don’t have this unconsciously high number of murders and shootings in our city.”

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

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