Kansas City's struggle to reduce violent crime continues as City Hall struggles to respond to a spate of recent shooting that foreshadow a violent Spring/Summer.
Sadly, the response is typically routine:
KC's Violent Crime Commission updates recommendations
The main thesis of the report:
"Hiring a full-time coordinator in city government to push crime prevention initiatives and monitor their effectiveness. They said the commission should be permanently impaneled to champion a sustained effort. And they recommended specific actions for neighborhoods, schools and others to help the city address the problem."
This isn't really news because we covered this same suggestion LAST YEAR . . .
However, the topic of funding brings us to a constant question around City Hall . . .
CAN WE FINALLY KILL AIM4PEACE AND START FUNDING SOMETHING MORE PRODUCTIVE!!!
On the Eastside there's very little support for the Aim4Peace program from anybody who isn't a drawing a paycheck directly. For YEARS this program has been a joke and their manufactured stats to secure more cash year after year is part of why this town's budget is structurally unbalanced.
And so . . . Tonight's anti-violence suggestions really aren't anything new . . . But Mayor and Council might want to listen to their constituents for a change and kill an unproductive program in order to move forward with better solutions in Kansas City's constant struggle to fight crime.
Silly TKC, Sly doesn't take orders. He gives them.
ReplyDeleteAbout time. One less gov't handout to someone who doesn't deserve it.
ReplyDeleteKC's crime rate is a reflection of "leaderships" lack of caring about anything other than putting money in their own pockets. Which pretty much is a crime in and of itself. As they do at the top, so they do below.
ReplyDeleteSly doesn't care about crime. He left the east side decades ago and never looked back.
ReplyDeleteCAN YOU SPELL GRIFTERS!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder who they will hire? Somebody with a long political resume no doubt.
ReplyDeleteMaybe violent flash mobs can be pacified by using Google Fiber or a free ride on the streetcar!
ReplyDeleteTracy McClendon-Cole is worthless. She knows as much about fighting crime as a feral cat, only the cat is better looking and smells nicer. Aim 4 Peace has had ZERO impact on crime in KC. Tracy was a Waynette. That's how she got her high dollar gig. Can someone explain how she holds onto it??
ReplyDelete9:29 pm
ReplyDeleteFatal shooting near Hardesty, Blue Parkway
One person was killed and a second person was wounded in a shooting Monday night in east Kansas City.
Initial reports indicated that the shooting involved the occupants of two vehicles.
Kill Aim4Peace but don't go buying into the Adhoc Group Against Crime routine, either. Alvin Brooks is dead in the head and soon to be in body. Rest in pieces you old shit-stain!
ReplyDeleteForget about Aim4Peace. Lets talk about Aim4Niggers.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately none of these programs is effective. Aim4Peace is modeled after a failed program in Chicago and Ad Hoc wil not help anyone who is not black. This is the truth and several families who came to them for help were told that. I don't know what the answer is to this out of control violence, but we better figure it out and quick or this will be one bloody summer.
ReplyDelete10:36 I agree.
ReplyDeleteHow can you call something "ad hoc" when it exists in perpetuity? Thats kind of contrary to ad hoc.
ReplyDeleteLook, it's nothing midnight basketball can't solve.
If you want to clean up crime, look at Giuliani. Get a tough, moderate Republican in office. Look at what we have had.
ReplyDeleteJames, Funkhouser, Barnes, Cleaver. I mean cmon.
12:27, oh yeah. Here's a great Rudy program. Crack down on the "little things" pissing in public, drinking in public. Everyone has to go to jail, gets a mandatory class in law and order. Pays $40 fine or whatever or they go to jail.
ReplyDeletehere's how the class goes. This is a true story. Everyone files in. Typical bunch of stupid college kids and random vagrants all pissing or drinking in public.
Guy walks in. Presumably the instructor.
"Ok, you all are here because you either a. drank in public or b. pissing in public. If you drank in public, put that shit in a paper bag. If you were peeing in public, do it while you're walking for fuck's sake. Now class dismissed."
Real effective as you can see.
I think that the name of this organization should be Aim4anybody who is white. After all, they actually listen to this bullshit.
ReplyDeleteThen we need to start another organization called Aim4criminalsandkillers. And aim with something else other than vigils and rhetoric.
I can solve the Kansas City crime problem in about 10 minutes. Enforce the laws on the books. That is all you have to do. Put bad guys in jail and keep them there. If you commit a crime you go to jail. Prosecute people like a real prosecutors office should and you will see crime fall dramatically.
ReplyDelete"Hiring a full-time coordinator in city government to push crime prevention initiatives and monitor their effectiveness." Hmmmm, I thought that was the police department's job.
ReplyDelete1:22am That's exactly what I was thinking. Enforce the laws and take the violent people out of the mix. And that means the courts need to cooperate with that effort.
ReplyDeleteIt's not "Aim For Peace", it's actually Aim For Whitey's Money. That's all it ever has been too. Just another way to screw "the man" for more jig money.
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