TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY VIOLENT CRIME COMMISSION REPORT COMING SOON!!! THE CONCLUSION? CITY NEEDS TO HIRE ANTI-CRIME STAFF!!!
At the outset of his administration Kansas City Mayor Sly James announced appointments to the Kansas City Violent Crime Commission. The group was mostly comprised of insiders and so far they haven't been very successful at reducing the city's TRIPLE DIGIT MURDER COUNT by any really significant margin.
However, we hear they they're soon to deliver another optimistic report to start the year . . .
SADLY, THE RESULT OF THE KANSAS CITY VIOLENT CRIME COMMISSION REPORT IS SIMPLY A SUGGESTION TO HIRE MORE CITY STAFFERS TO DEAL WITH CRIME!!!
There's no definitive staffing suggestion but look for Stacey Daniels-Young to earn a quick nomination as a move across the street from directing JaxCo COMBAT might be more comfortable for the Kansas City area power broker.
In the end, this is rather typical from Mayor Sly and probably what we should have expected . . . A panel of insiders simply devises a way to find more jobs for insiders rather than any new ideas or methods for fighting violent crime in Kansas City.
DEVELOPING . . .
Sly doesn't care about crime.
ReplyDeleteDead on the money .
ReplyDeleteUntil the Urbnan Culture of entitlement and violence is replaced with mainstream culture of contribution and acheivement, you can staff thousands of commissions.
ReplyDeleteIt won't help.
The Urban Culture is NEVER goin away (Wasn't Django a great movie?), so, shit can teh Toy Train and hire more cops and undertakers.
Fuck some stupid commission.
The only thing that will happen, is a great deal of conversation about the commission, the commission of crime.
KC should probably ban guns and hire this guy to lead the commission.
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How many times do I have to tell you Tony?
ReplyDeleteYour Mayor doesn't give a shit about crime. He is only out to help his friends make money. He is a scammer of the wort kind and YOU are stuck with him for another term after this one.
Inmates running the asylum. Shalom.
ReplyDeleteWe need more officers on the street... not staff in the office.
ReplyDeleteWhere are those who know how to reduce crime? Include them.
ReplyDeleteWhen caught KEEP the little thugs in jail. Dont send them back home to mama. They can kill each other just as easy in there and take the heat off of the neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteI believe "hire more City staffers to deal with crime" is code for "give more money to Aim4Peace and P.O.S.S.E. for non-accountable, no show jobs for friends, family and political supporters." Can't wait for local control!!!
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - After interviewing food historians, scholars, cooks, doctors, activists and consumers for his new film "Soul Food Junkies," filmmaker Byron Hurt concluded that an addiction to soul food is killing African-Americans at an alarming rate.
ReplyDeleteIn the deeply personal film, Hurt details his father's fight and eventual death from pancreatic cancer. A high-fat diet is a risk factor for the illness, according to researchers at Duke University in North Carolina.
"I never questioned what we ate or how much," 42-year-old New Jersey-based Hurt says in the film that travels from New Jersey and New York to Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Chicago.
"My father went from being young and fit to twice his size."
Hurt, who also made "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," decided to examine the link between calorie-loaded soul food and illnesses among blacks after his father was diagnosed in 2006.
He delves into his family history, as well as slavery, the African diaspora and the black power movement in the film and provides photographs, drawings, historic film footage and maps.
In Jackson, Mississippi, Hurt joined football fans for ribs and corn cooked with pigs' feet and turkey necks. He also visited Peaches Restaurant, founded in 1961, where freedom riders and civil rights activists including Martin Luther King Jr. ate.
Hurt, whose family came from Milledgeville, Georgia, grew up on a diet of fried chicken, pork chops, macaroni and cheese, potatoes and gravy, barbecued ribs, sweet potato pie, collard greens, ham hocks and black-eyed peas.
"The history of Southern food is complex," he said. "In many ways, the term soul food is a reduction of our culinary foodways."
The origins of the diet lie in the history of American slavery, according to food historian Jessica B. Harris, who appears in the film. Slaves ate a high-fat, high-calorie diet that would allow them to burn 3,000 calories a day working, she explained.
Southern food began to be called soul food during the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s, according to Hurt.
"There's an emotional connection and cultural pride in what they see as the food their population survived on in difficult times," he said.
But Hurt said African-Americans are being devastated by nutrition-related diseases.
Black adults have the highest rates of obesity and a higher prevalence of diabetes than whites, and are twice as likely to die of stroke before age 75 than other population groups, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Besides tradition and habit, poverty and neighborhoods without good supermarkets also contribute to an unhealthy diet, Hurt said.
"Low-income communities of color lack access to vegetables and have an overabundance of fast food and highly processed foods that are high in calories and fats. I always know when I'm in a community of color because I see ... very, very few supermarkets and health food stores," he added.
In her book, "High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America," Harris said the prevalence of over processed foods, low-quality meats, and second- or third-rate produce in minority neighborhoods amounts to "culinary apartheid."
In the film, Marc Lamont Hill, an associate professor of English education at Columbia University in New York, described minority health problems related to poor diet as "21st-century genocide."
Hurt says the government can help by increasing urban access to quality food and requiring calorie counts to be displayed on restaurant menus.
Nonprofit organizations such as Growing Power Inc., which runs urban farms in Chicago and Milwaukee, provide fresh vegetables to minority neighborhoods.
Brian Ellis, 21, said all he ate was fast food when he started working at one of Growing Power's urban farms in Chicago when he was 14.
More of the same old same old.
ReplyDeletehttp://ww4.kcmo.org/council/covc.pdf
Isn't crime good for business? After all he is a lawyer as are most of his loyal supporters and insiders.
ReplyDeleteYeah we can rush rush rush to get an overpriced streetcar doomed to fail up and running but can't do nothing to reduce crime?
ReplyDeleteHire more city staff? How is KCMO going to pay for them? I have an idea. Since the crime is on the east side, let's raise the real estate taxes of only the people living on the east side. Once the crime is gone their property values will go up so they should pay. Hey, it worked for the streetcar.
ReplyDeleteMore assistant city managers, more more more
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ReplyDeleteMore grunts and clicks from City Hall.
Wonderful.
ReplyDelete3:48 PM - WTF?
Seriously, that has nothing to do with the post on this blog. Besides that, who gives a shit?!
"Hurt says the government can help by increasing urban access to quality food and requiring calorie counts to be displayed on restaurant menus."
Fuck you and your Nanny-State bullshit!
Never ever trust a man wearing a bow tie who is not in a tuxedo.
ReplyDeleteNot a single cop or crime fighter was actually involved with this commission. Nice job, people that know nothing about reducing crime wasting tax payer money.
ReplyDeleteYou have got to be kidding me!
ReplyDeleteAn Anti Crime Staff!????
What the Hell is the Police Department for?
What happened to all the great things KCPD was suppose to do?
Remember all the crap they promised to get Taxpayers to pass the public safety sales tax?
What happened to that?
What a crock of shit.
City Hall needs a staff of 25 people just to keep an eye on 5 who do nothing all day but suck up tax dolllars.
ReplyDeleteWow - Sly thinks he's Obama!
Anti-crime staff? Isn't that the police?
ReplyDeleteWhatever tony thinks is fine with me
ReplyDeleteHey,6:42- Last dude that worked for me and wore a bow tie was sexually harassing the help. Caused some good employees a lot of distress and me $50 grand. That was the last time I trusted a dude in a bow tie-except for Charlie Wheeler.
ReplyDelete@711 that's not true. There were several KCMO Police involved
ReplyDeleteIts KCPD officers, not kcmo police. You sound like a douchebag when you say it wrong.
DeleteWho were the KCPD officers that were involved? Name them, not a single rank and file officer heard about this. Are you talking about Higgins, Rose, Brisbin or Hundley? Come on, give us a break.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Rev (heh, heh) Tindall is getting rid of Daniels-Young from his COMBAT department. Combat is purportedly part of Mike Sanders' office. Sanders moved it from the PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE....
ReplyDeleteDo I think it is a crime to make Mike Sanders Tindall's butt-boy? Hell no. That's the only work Sanders does in his office.
The original batshit crazy lady got it right when she said "Just Say No" No to money to hire what the city ALREADY PAYS OUT!
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ReplyDeleteWhen Combat first began it was a good and effective organization. Enter politics: it's one of the biggest "boondoggles" in the country. What it needs is a complete housecleanin, starting with Nunnley, now a "consultant" and going on through the ranks. I KNOW, this because I'm a former Combat Commissioner!
Well, all of the TKC commenters complain but when election season rolls around, you'll vote the same lames back into office. That will give you more to complain about. Wake up folks! You're asleep at the wheel.
ReplyDeleteThe City also needs to hire a mayor and supporting staff that give a damn about the people of this City. It's alright. The suburbs are looking more appealing everyday.
ReplyDeleteWhen the hell will we get rid of Tindall??!!
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