Kansas court case could have implications for cellphone privacy msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kansas City police fail to solve most crimes. It s one reason some want more city control Glenn E. Rice, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 1 Civil rights leaders and community activists in Kansas City have pointed to rising violent crime and low arrest rates as one reason they support a plan to give local officials authority over part of the police department budget.
The Kansas City Police Department has not been effective in recent years at lowering the rate of homicides, which hit a record in 2020, several leaders pointed out at a May 25 news conference at City Hall.
In fact, as police department data shows, the KCPD solved only about half of last year s homicides. And clearance rates for other serious crimes were even worse: 20% of rapes, 7% of burglaries and 16% of robberies.
In Kansas City, a wave of evictions could push gun violence to new extremes this year
Housing problems and gun violence go hand in hand, experts say. And in Kansas City, both may be about to get even worse
May 25, 2021
It was boarded up, filled with trash, everything in complete disarray.
But Murrell, a part-time home renovator, knows this house on a corner of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City’s Washington-Wheatley neighborhood can be a happy home again. He spent his early childhood nearby and remembers the families who lived here.
Now 42, Murrell has seen the neighborhood hollowed out over the years by a historic loss of Black homeownership, high rates of evictions, and deteriorating housing conditions.
In Kansas City, a wave of evictions could push gun violence to new extremes this year msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
We ve had enough : Kansas City saw multiple shootings and homicides in 10-hour span Robert A. Cronkleton, Anna Spoerre, and Cortlynn Stark, The Kansas City Star
May 6 After several violent hours in Kansas City, three people are dead and three are injured. In all but one incident in the roughly 10-hour span, gun violence was at play.
Two of the deaths reported have been classified as homicides.
The other, which involved a body found in a burning car, is under a suspicious death investigation because the circumstances are unknown, said Capt. Leslie Foreman, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Police Department.