KCMO Council Dude Duncan Confronts Public Safety Tax Pressure

Here's a bit of Kansas City inside baseball for the afternoon . . .

INSIDERS HAVE TOLD COUNCIL DUDE DUNCAN TO THINK TWICE ABOUT THIS PUBLIC SAFETY SALES TAX OPPOSITION!!!

During the holidays the council dude hinted that he would actively oppose the tax because of his objections to locking up more offenders. 

Off-record some insiders see it this way: 

"I just don't think he's seeing what's happening in his own district. Kansas City's property crime situation is out of control and we need a jail and more to help address the situation. Funding for community activists isn't going to stop this trend and it's unfair to expect that . . . Places like Brookside and South KC want more policing and resources not social justice rallies." 

Accordingly . . . Behind the scenes we're noticing council and other leaders hoping to get Councilman Duncan on board with support for the tax given the very real chance that it might be rejected by voters. 

For context, we'll link a recent quote from the council dude on the jail and the upcoming Public Safety tax initiative when council first decided to put it on an upcoming ballot . . .

Councilman Johnathan Duncan was the lone ‘no vote’ on this issue going before city voters at Thursday’s council meeting . . .

“Our municipal detainees are not murderers, they’re not rapists, they’re not people who have shot somebody,” he said. “They are not even the serial burglars who are breaking into downtown businesses. They are not people who are stealing cars. By and large, these are low level crimes, and I do not think that widely the public understands who is actually going to be housed in our detention facility.”

Duncan says the city approved $16 million separately for a renovation of the Kansas City Police Department downtown headquarters to put in a holding facility there . . .

Previously via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Council Dude Duncan Disputes Upcoming Kansas City Jail

Developing . . .