According to Tony at TKC and Crime Scene KC, we're up to 99 homicides right now in Kansas City.
That stinks, of course.
And if we were really cynical, we'd start two pots.
The first one would be to figure out when/if we hit 100, the one closest to the time and day wins the pot.
The second pot would be to see when Mayor Funkhouser gets off his butt and attempts--or pretends to attempt--to do anything about the homicide rate in this city.
Only the second one would pass in the "good taste" department.
Links: http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2010/12/kc-shooting-victim-dies-from-injuries.html
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After number 100, I'm hoping that Alonzo Washington will shave his head and wear baggy pants and go around the hood talking about how bad this is on the communities' image.
Will it help?
By the way, I think the number's been around a hundred a year for a long time...basically, one about every 3 days. I think it was that way in the 70s even, before all this rap-trash glorified putting gaps in people's asses.
That may be, that there have been nearly 100 homicides in town but that doesn't mean something can't or shouldn't be done about it.
Let's start with the fact that by doing the same things both the black community and official KCMO have been doing will bring the same results, namely at least two murders every week of the year.
The self-appointed "leaders" in the black community shout about racism, victimiztion, entitlement, and excuses for any kind of behavior. The words "accountability" and "responsibility" are never heard.
Offical KCMO hides behind the fact that the police board supposedly manages and oversees the KCPD, so everyone has a handy reason to point to everyone else and avoid responsibility for results.
The media always goes to the same old people in both groups and then reports the same old nonsense.
There are many ways to approach this long-term, including community policing and other strategies, but let me suggest a good start.
The mayor, city council, police board, KCPD command staff, County Executive, and COMBAT staffs meeet, ascertain what resources and assets they currently have available, make a commitment to rigorously address the total lack of relationships, trust, and communication between the KCPD and the black community, implement new tactics to address those deficiencies and more aggressively AND cooperatively police the small minority of thugs terrorizing neighborhoods, AND HAVE SOME SENIOR ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS ACTUALLY DEMAND RESULTS AND MANAGE TO GET THEM.
We're working in the neighborhoods around Rockhurst to do just that.
www.operationpromiselandkc.org
This is the type of community/city cooperation and coordination I have called for here for some time, it seems. I can't imagine how there would or will be any progress in reducing these shootings unless or until this happens.
You're certainly old enough, Mo, to Know. "Something should be done about it."
First of all, thats passive voice as all of us journalists should know already.
Secondly, it means "someone ELSE BESIDES ME" should do something about it.
Third. make acouple policy decision.
--either neuter the strays or put more rubbers in ghetto gas stations and make em free.
--take away their guns or put ammo in ghetto gas stations and make em free.
Dear Mr. Kevin: Glad you posted this item!! Mr. Kostar has some very good ideas as to how to bring the city's violence under control--I wish him well!! As for the city's politicians, they need to make crime a central issue in next year's elections. And, tell these politicians not to worry if they get called "racists" for raising the crime issue--the people in this town who are always screaming "racist" are cut from the same bolt of cloth as the lynch mobs in my native South who victimized innocent black people for self-serving reasons: Like these lynch mobs, these people screaming "racism" are cynically exploiting real human tragedies for selfish ends. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
Radioman,
My thing, that I'm doing, is harping on our homicide rate, first, and then harping, too, on the lack of leadership from City Hall, the Mayor, the City Council and/or the civic and church leaders on the East side, who have to live with what's going on. It's one thing I can do and have done. Shining a light on a problem--pointing it out and calling for solutions--is something.
As for your solutions, well...
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