KC police investigating homicide on East 59th Street . . . Unfortunately, this probably won't be the last one . . . As many a drunken cowboy has said before, "day's not over yet."
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Tony,
ReplyDeleteGo figure. The one day I decide to drive down Paseo (first time in years), I see the coppers and all the news vans out there with the area roped off. Never fails. If I had my camera on me, I would've stopped and got some exclusive footage.
You should run for mayor and stop this crime.
I read something interesting about the increase in murders. There is a direct correlation of the timing right after the Police Commissioners spanked those two officers in the incident involving the pregnant woman that had a miscarriage. It's as if the police said "screw it" let them kill each other - it's not worth it.
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ReplyDeleteThat is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Did you also buy the new that the CIA brought crack to the US as a racial control tool?
Explain your logic, if there was any to begin with.
From Ingram's magazine: ".....an intriguing explanation for the upswing in
ReplyDeletemay-hem is advanced by one Ernest Evans, a political science teacher at Kansas City, Kansas Community College. Evans makes the point that Kansas City’s 2008 homicide rate stayed at 2007 levels everywhere in the city except the East Patrol District. There, the numbers fully doubled.
Evans noticed a second, related trend. The city’s homicide rate in 2008 tracked with that of 2007 through the first several months of the year,
but in the eight-month period beginning May 1, the city experienced a 60 percent increase in homicides over the same period in 2007. The summer months witnessed a 75 percent increase over the previous summer.
Evans traces the explosion to a specific 2008 event, the April 11 Police Board hearing regarding the videotaped February 2006 arrest of Ms. Sofia Salva. For those in a coma at the time, police stopped the Sudanese native for attempting to affix a temporary plate. On checking, they learned she had several outstanding city warrants for child abuse, trespassing and traffic violations, with bonds totaling $4,600. Given Salva’s track record, the two officers, one of them female, ignored her claim that she was bleeding from a possible miscarriage. Her premature baby died the next day shortly after she was released from jail. The city paid Salva $750 thou-sand for her troubles.
As one cop told Evans, “Doc, there is no such thing as a nice takedown—they all look terrible on camera.” No matter. The two cops were offered up to expiate the angry gods of race and resentment. “Five commissioners spent four hours needlessly badgering and humiliating the two officers involved in front of over 100 [visibly angry] members of the KCPD,” Evans wrote later of that April hearing. That treatment, he believes, “destroyed the last remnant of morale in the KCPD.”
Even before the hearing, Evans ar-gues that “the frenzy of police bashing” by the city’s politicians, journalists and bloggers had already undermined KCPD morale. Demoralized by the sacrificial axing of the two officers, their colleagues had good reason to fear being splayed
on that same PC altar should they ever err or even seem to.
Based on evidence from other cities where the Thought Police had neutered the real ones, Evans anticipated that the KCPD would begin to pull back from policing minority neighborhoods out of a legitimate sense of self-preservation. Just days after the hearing, he wrote in his own diary. “I fear that the violent crime rate in KCMO, already at the boiling point, will explode.”"
right on.
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