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 . . .