Kansas City Homicides Spike Despite MAGA Murder Rate Success

This week the White House touted progress over plummeting murder rates across the nation but that progress has yet to take hold in Kansas City. 

Heck, even STL is enjoying a drop in deadly violence.

However . . .  

Right now KCMO endures a 12% increase in our homicide pace so far this year. 

 Nearly every weekend so far this spring has been marked by gunfire and multiple shootings. This week has been relatively quiet but maybe only because of constant rain and flooding. 

And so we ask . . .

WHY HASN'T MAGA PROGRESS AGAINST MURDER TAKEN HOLD IN KANSAS CITY?!?

Consider . . . 

It's hard to accept the "blue city" blame game given that KCMO resides between two overwhelmingly red states AND Missouri state control of the police board should also take some accountability for the dire situation on cowtown streets. 

It's too easy, superficial, unproductive and lame to treat deadly local violence like a partisan wedge issue. Instead, more thoughtful residents might ask themselves how Democratic Party leadership AND Republican control of governance have led us to this tragic predicament. 

Per ushe . . . We trust that our opinion will be summarily ignored as political hacks find much more satisfaction in repeating talking points and awarding more EPIC cash to anti-crime programs rather than thinking critically about an ongoing slaughter on local streets. 

 And so we reference important progress that comes with MAGA rule and HOPE that it takes hold in KC proper in what is already becoming YET ANOTHER near record-setting year for deadly violence . . . 

“Since President Trump took office, murder rates have plummeted across the entire United States,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement . . .

“American families were promised their communities would be safer and President Trump swiftly delivered by vocally being tough on crime, unequivocally backing law enforcement, and standing firm on violent criminals being held to the fullest extent of the law,” she added.

Her remarks come after analyst Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, found more than a 20% decrease in murders from 2024, including murders down 31.6% in Baltimore, 34.5% in St. Louis, 36.8% in Cleveland, 63% in Denver, 30.6% in New Orleans, 26.8% in New York, and 23.7% in Chicago.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Daily Wire: White House Touts Plummeting Murder Rates Under President Trump

New York Post: White House celebrates plummeting murder rates as levels dip below pre-COVID numbers

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