TKC EXCLUSIVE QUESTION!!! WHY IS VIOLENT CRIME DECLINING ACROSS THE NATION BUT NOT IN KANSAS CITY?!?!?!
Once again, Kansas City stays losing.
Here's some recent news that's providing a bit of hope for people around the nation BUT NOT in this cowtown:
Wall Street Journal: Crime continues to fall in all major categories, a streak that has now hit 4½ years, according to data released Monday
Meanwhile . . .
KANSAS CITY'S MURDER RATE CONTINUES TO RISE AND OUTRANKS LAST YEAR'S TOTAL!!!
Figuring out why this town is failing when other places have made gains in fighting violent crime is an essential part of the solution to this problem.
Useless stereotypes regarding racism don't work because there are other cities that are far more diverse than this cowtown that have lower crime.
By that same token, whining about poverty and education doesn't provide the answer either given that poorer towns with even worse schools (hard to believe but a still a fact) have worked to achieve a lower murder rate.
TKC would like to contend that it's a lack of leadership to seriously address this problem that has thwarted our progress when it comes to violent crime.
Kansas City is pathologically polite and to really determine what has gone wrong with our out of control murder rate might mean holding people accountable for a lack of political and bureaucratic achievement.
These tough discussion have taken place other places but Kansas City remains a town where only pointless political pleasantries are repeated in lieu of a real discussion about what's gone wrong and how to effectively fix it.
Tragically, in this instance there will be people who pay for this town's longstanding tradition inaction with their lives.
DEVELOPING . . .
Maybe it's because you suck.
ReplyDeletePoor police strategies, and lack of caring about the community. But it's been going on for years now. It's just part of KC culture. The community and city don't support one another.
ReplyDeleteWhat passes for leadership in the black community is way more interested in extorting money from the business community and city hall for themselves and blaming everyone but the east side thugs for the crime and violence. And the disaster of the school district has been caused by the same folks and the same MO.
ReplyDeleteUntil everyone, including TKC, starts ignoring duds like Clinton Adams, Gwen Grant, Al Brooks, and all the other self-appointed leaders and the black community gets serous about helping to provide some safety for themselves by working with the PD, nothing much is going to change.
And before there's any investment or jobs on the east side, the violence has to be gotten under control. No one is going to want to own or work at a business in an area where there are two murders every week of the year.
So who will lead the way?
Makes me wanna make some babies!
ReplyDelete(An actual quote from a recent interview.)
This is Ernest's bread and butter. He must be sick today.
ReplyDeleteDeath stalks the streets of Kansas City.
ReplyDeletefucking sucks that kc can't get it's act together. Where are you sly?>
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:40
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point, however, the onus is not all on the community. There is a general, us against them attitude from the police that is only perpetuated by the ongoing violence. i.e. police justifiably fear for their own safety in violent areas and in turn, deal with everyone with a heavy hand. This makes the community extremely weary of the police. Yes, the community needs to police itself, but I don't care how good of a person you are, standing up to murderers and violent criminals is far easier said than done.
I'm curious if Tony really believes race has nothing to do with it when nearly all of the murders are blacks killing blacks within the same small geographic area.
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ReplyDeleteNails it.
Again I must say that KC is not a killing field. The east side of KC is a killing field.
ReplyDeleteKC has an overabundance of criminals.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the answer, but I suggest we have a series of public meetings to discuss the issue.
ReplyDeleteThat ought to help.
I'll bring the candles, 8:54.
ReplyDeleteDe-annex the 3rd.
ReplyDeleteLet Adams, Grant et. al. have their own City, government, police force, school district, eco dev, etc.
Then they'll have no one left to blame but themselves for the wasteland.
Do what we have always done. Have public forms, set up committees, (give the committees fancy names)
ReplyDeleteHold press conferences, meet with police, meet with the Mayor and City Council, Print up expensive brochures. Hold marches, candle light vigils, Stand out on the City Hall Front Steps with a bullhorn or hold another "Press Conference".
This always seems to work. NOT
9:55: You forgot to mention throw public funds at the problem. Alvin, Gwen, and Clinton always like that.
ReplyDeleteSomebody fly in Alonzo on a hang-glider! I hear his cape is in for plugs & wires.
ReplyDeleteTony, aren't you the guy who criticized the Waldo community when they banded together to find a rapist? I think you called them racist. When the people on the east side band together crime will start to go down
ReplyDeleteClinton Adams is every bit as racist and therefore as stupid as George Wallace was.
ReplyDelete"Why is violent crime declining across the nation but not in Kansas City?"
ReplyDeleteThe answer to that question is the answer to this question: What is Kansas City doing, or not doing, that is different from everyone else?
Kansas City has an over abundance of blacks (see niggers).
ReplyDeletea) the east side thugs are busy slingin' dope at each other; b) the east side thugs are still livin' according to the rap 'ethos'; c) the east side thugs still believe gangs or 'sets', and their supposed attendent "honor", are somehow relevant; d) the east side thugs are stupid.
ReplyDelete7:45 anon makes some very good points about the difficulty and danger of individuals working with the police and reporting criminal activity, although there are people all over the city who do just that.
ReplyDeleteThe point is, instead of encouraging that kind of behavior and providing some training, empowerment, and support for the good residents on the east side, what passes for leadership blames everyone else and actually tries to provide excuses and rationales for the very behaviors that are killing (literally) the black community.
What's needed are some 21st Century realities and leadership instead of making believe it's still the '60s.
Here's a phrase you never hear: Personal responsibility.
Who will be first?
Adams, Grant and Brooks are the reasons for what?
ReplyDeleteI thought we had anointed West and James.
Sure, let's all sing "Koon Bye Yah" and light some candles. Yeah, that'll do it..
ReplyDeleteKansas City Home to Crime.
ReplyDeleteCan you spell Drug Central? KC is the HUB for Drug Central. Period.
ReplyDeleteHarass the perps until they leave town, maybe for Independence or some place like that.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 7:14: No,I was not sick today--just busy with Christmas shopping!! Tony's post says all that needs to be said: KCMO's leaders have got to stop pretending that the city's crime problems are due to national trends that they have no control over. Now, that is a convenient way to dodge the blame for the ongoing crime disaster in KCMO, but it fundamentally untrue. Take care!!! Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
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