Refusing Cash Saves Kansas City Small Biz From Crime Spree?!?

Kansas City Dead-tree media proposes compromise and tech solutions against rising crime.

Local newsies press the question: 

WILL TURNING AWAY FROM CASH PROTECT KANSAS CITY SMALL BIZ?!?!

There's good reason to be skeptical about the tactic . . .

A downtown coffee shop tried this move only to close months later.

Sadly . . . 

Here's another beloved institution and unique destination that fights for survival against worsening break-in robberies . .  .

Soon, to help dissuade future break-ins, Hi Hat coffee shop owner T Philip Jensen said he will be putting up signs on yet another new front door (this one with glass, but also steel) meant to send a message as much to would-be burglars as to customers: “No Cash Accepted” and “No Cash on Premises.”

When he does, he will be joining a growing number of small business owners in the Kansas City area, who — sick of what they view as a rising spate of breaks-ins — hope that accepting no cash and having no cash on their premises will lead to no more burglaries.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Sick of repeated break-ins, more Kansas City area shops respond: 'No Cash Accepted'

A growing number of small business owners in the Kansas City area, sick of what they see as a rising trend of breaks-ins, hope that having no cash on their premises will end the burglaries.