With any luck, maybe we're coming together, as a city, to fight the shootings and killings in the area.
First it was Alonzo Washinton, frankly, who set up his blog and has been meeting around town to fight crime.
Then the organization CeaseFire came to town, trying to reduce the number of killings.
That's been followed, as I understand, by the AIM4Peace group that also, apparently, needs money and is hoping to get some from City Hall itself.
Now, there's a local man, a Father, whose son and nephew were killed by some of these same shootings who is trying to get the community to come together to fight the crime. He's setting up a group he's called "Operation Promise Land" , to create 'an agressive door-to-door assault on the 'Stop Snitchin' campaign."
Maybe with all this and involvement by more people and churches and other community organizations, we could get a handle on this and reduce the number of senseless, tragic killing this year.
Here's hoping.
In the meantime, is anyone paying attention at City Hall?
Additional links:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/columnists/steve_penn/story/1215899.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1727682.html
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Dear mr. Kevin: In one of your recent postings you asked if anyone is listening at City Hall about the crime situation. Well, fair is fair, and last Christmas Eve I was interviewed on the Chris Stigall show about the city's crime problems--the Mayor and City Manager heard the interview, and asked me to send them a memo on the crime situation and my thoughts as to what to do about it. (Which I did.) Now, I say this not to boast about me, but simply to indicate that people at City Hall are concerned and willing to listen to people that have some knowledge on the issue. Also, a while back two of the instructors from the KCPD Police Academy had lunch with me in Leavenworth--we talked for about two hours about the crime situation. Now, the point, as I say, is not about me and my expertise, it is that people in positions of authority in the city are concerned--they simply are unsure what to do. In Christ, Ernest Evans
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