KMBC: Kansas City police are investigating after two people were wounded in a shooting near 22nd and Charlotte streets early Friday morning.
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The police have no suspects and no arrests have been made.
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And get ready for 2011, yet another year of two murders every single week.
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Dear Mr. Tony: Thanks for posting the news, as always, of the city's most serious crime situation. Tomorrow is Jan 1, 2011--this is the week of the annual "Crime in KCMO" article in the Star and the (as brief as possible so as to not offend the PC Police) discussion of the KCMO crime situation on "Ruckus" and "KC Week." My fearless prediction: The "talking heads" will all conclude that KCMO's crime disaster in its black neighborhoods since the spring of 2008 is due to the recession. Now, I hate to do this, but when I was in training as a political scientist we were taught to compare theories to facts. We were also taught, incidentally, that just because something should not be true does not mean that it is true. So, here goes. If "it is the recession, stupid" why does my home town of Washington, DC currently have both the lowest homicide totals since 1960 and the highest clearance rate in history? (Note to KCMO journalists--you may be aware that DC is 70% black, has many poor neighborhoods, and serious problems with unemployment.) And let us look at Detroit in 2010--a city with staggering unemployment and huge numbers of poor neighborhoods--26% decline in homicides in 2010. (KCMO is about 3 % for 2010.) Los Angeles County: 1500 homicides in 1990--in 2009, in the teeth of the recession, 500 homicides. The list goes on and on. No, it is not the recession--and it is not lack of gun control, unusually warm weather, youth demographics, etc--if these were the causes, you would expect the entire nation to be in the midst of a crime explosion. That is not happening. Memo to most of the city's "journalists": We are not idiots in this city, and we do not appreciate you treating us as if we were. Sincerely and Respectfully, Ernest Evans
ReplyDeleteYears of Homicides and inaction by City Officials. KCPD has been performing poorly for years, and yet the Board of Police Commissioners holds no one responsible. " A City That Works" ????
ReplyDeleteNo a City that Failed.