TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! OAK PARK MALL UNDER ATTACK!!! INSIDERS: GOLDEN GHETTO SHOPPING CENTER CONFRONTS NEW MOBILE KANSAS CITY URBAN CRIME WAVE!!!

Now in the winter of our discontent the most beloved shopping mall in the Kansas City area is confronted with a crime wave that could have its roots in the urban core.

To wit . . .

TKC EXCLUSIVE: TOP ECHELON INSIDERS TOLD YOU SO . . . KANSAS CITY URBAN CRIME IS GOING MOBILE AND ATTACKING SHOPPING CENTERS ALONG WITH OTHER SOFT TARGETS IN THE SUBURBS!!!

We have data to back up this bit of Kansas City trend spotting that no other media outlet in the city is calling out.

Let's focus on the recent spate of Oak Park Mall crime for now . . .

- The month started with a lady getting a gun in her face during a carjacking.

- This week a shocking sexual assault was reported at Oak Park Mall

- And last night a TEEN GIRL GANG ACCOMPANIED BY ONE DUDE JACKED A WOMAN in the Oak Park Mall parking lot.

Public safety detail on the latest bit of violence:

"Police described the suspects as three black females and one black male, ages 15-21. One of the females was wearing a turquoise jacket and described as 5’03”, 150 lbs. The suspects fled the area in a black Chrysler Sebring."

In fairness, here's the perspective from the mall's side:

"Mall security is a 24/7 365-day program inside and outside the property," the statement said. "We will continue to work with local police departments to ensure out standards are maintained."

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Overland Park police or the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

Sadly, longtime Kansas City denizens realize that these are the same kind of reassurances that were given before Bannister Mall went bye-bye.



Juxtapose this tragedy with recent deadly violence amid the Shawnee "She's A Pistol" gun shop robbery shootout and remember that the crooks in that instance all hailed from Kansas City proper.

EXCLUSIVE WORD FROM KICK-ASS TKC INSIDERS . . .

"It's simple to see what's happening, but nobody wants to say it. You can call it displacement or whatever you'd like but the fact is that teens in Kansas City's urban core are no longer content to cause trouble in their own neighborhoods and they're making the car ride out to the suburbs . . .

"The fact is, there's no place to rob on Troost after dark and these suburban soft targets represent a greater opportunity to get away with crime. You aren't mentioning that 2/3 of the criminals weren't captured at Oak Park. Here in KCMO, we need to be cognizant of the fact that our crime isn't being eliminated, it's simply shifting to other areas."

There is precedent for this trend, in 2012 the police chief of Independence, MO argued for a public safety tax increase given the argument that increased East Side patrolling was pushing more criminals his way.

Now, it seems that the violent, urban, teen crime that has long plagued Kansas City proper is moving west as well.

Developing . . .