Kansas City could use such a blog

From NPR today :

County officials recorded 740 homicides in the Los Angeles area last year. That's an average of 14 violent deaths every week. With few exceptions, most victims simply become statistics — just numbers.

But in 2007, the Los Angeles Times set out to dig beneath those numbers and tell the story of each and every person on a blog called The Homicide Report.

Each week, a blogger checks in with several city and county agencies — the LAPD, the county coroner, whoever can tell the stories of who died and why.

The names go on and on and on. A photograph is attached to almost all of the entries.

I'm thinking this is what Kansas City needs--a newspaper column, if they could do it, or, like this, a blog that shows who died and who they were.

It would personalize the killings and shootings and murders in town.

Then, maybe if it did, more people would be incensed at the senselessness of these killings and we'd come together, as a community--churches, community leaders, the average Joe on the streets, all of us--even the Mayor, their office (if you get my meaning), the City Council, virtually everyone, and find solutions for drive-bys and all the other pointless, needless killings.

As I have often said, hey, I can hope, can't I?

And don't look at me for this--I already have 2 blogs going, thanks very much.