Kansas City Crime Crisis deserves international shame before the World Cup

A year before it houses the FIFA World Cup, Kansas City's crime problem won in the London newspaper with a London newspaper, which describes a “Mad Max Style Höllenloch” in the city center, in which the residents are “afraid of darkness out”.

The Daily Mail reported May 7th The city's Missouri team suffers from “increasing crime and a decreasing police presence”, the city has caused “a hotspot for illegal street races and reckless ATV and dirt bike drivers who tear through neighborhoods -chaos, escalated last month when a police officer was hit by an ATV.

“Now frustrated business owners and locals weigh whether they are leaving the city center and blaming the management and law enforcement of the Run City because they cannot contain the chaos and restore a feeling of security.”

The London newspaper points to A Report by Fox4 Kansas City Specify “Downtown of business owners say they are at a break.”

“This is not a racing problem, this is not a political problem, this is a security problem,” quoted Manny's Mexican Restaurant General Manager David Lopez.

“I have the feeling that this city is about as unsure as since my family on 207 Southwest Boulevard and that is 45 years in September.”

“Very disappointing,” says Nathan Willett, city council of the 1st district, to The Heartlander. “But not surprisingly that it became more of a greater story.”

Chaos, says business owner

Fox4 explains:

“Illegal street races, ATVS and DIRT bikes that tear through the neighborhoods – even an officer who deliberately run from … just weeks ago. Chaos, says Lopez, is constant.

“If the things that start their control outside the controls are pouring the basis of what they have done for four generations,” he said to the station.

“He's not alone,” writes Fox4. “Business owners in the entire city center say that they feel abandoned by the city tour and the police, and the effects affect more than just morality – they reduce income.

“People will go – that's it,” said Lopez of the station. “At 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday we used to get our third round, now at 8:00 a.m. I cut three servers, a bartender and three kitchen staff.”

“I think what you are seeing are the results of the leadership from previous years,” says City Councilor Willett. “We knew far too long that we needed a prison in the city and the council has decided not to act. After all, we have a plan to get ahead, but it will take a few more years.

“The police asked for additional resources. And they asked for support.

“This is an area where you have many customers. You have many business owners, you have many people who come in and visit our city and stay in the city center. If you have events like this, people who want to invest in our city will violate and stay in the city center, especially in the city center.”

In fact, another restaurateur in the city center of Fox4 said that he had “increasing crime and the presence of the police,” reports the train station.

“It is incredibly disappointing to observe the continued lack of police presence and reaction in our neighborhood,” Bradley Gilmore, owner of Lula's Southern Cookhouse, told The Outlet. “It is becoming increasingly difficult to support these large -scale projects if the basic needs of security and accessibility are ignored.”

The situation is certainly not ignored by the international media.

ATV Pops Wheelie on officer

The city's international discretion is supposedly based on an ATV driver ran over a police officer Who tried to stop several vehicles in Truman Road and Main Street on April 12th. Kendall Coleman, 27, is reported to be charged with the assault or liability for the first degree, 27, due to the first degree in assault.

“Court documents,” reports Fox4, “they say, Coleman the ATV reversed and fell to the ground. While the official crouched down, Coleman raised his ATV into a wheelie, then he dropped the front wheels of the vehicle onto the officer and ran it with all four tires before leaving the scene.”

“Officers later found Coleman near the 31st Street and the Southwest Boulevard, but he fled again and again on the I-35, where he was traveling north in the lanes of traffic and walked between the lanes.”

The official was taken to a hospital with head injuries.

According to reports, the suspect's father, Marc Coleman, 49, is also accused of hindering law enforcement after driving his son to Colorado after the incident.

Mayor Quinton Lucas – with a majority of the council members, tried to steal back 42 million US dollars of police funds in 2021 – published an explanation on April 13, in which it indulge in indignancy.

“Last night, a ruthless ATV driver injured in Kansas City, Mayhem on our streets and continued to show that too many dirt bike, stunt drivers, ATV users, racing drivers and others are exhibited in thick areas of our city. We expect our civil servant to recover and be able to return to normal services soon.

“Be insured when the weather gets warmer. The serious enforcement measures of KCPD, fears and crimes against our prosecutors will follow for those who cause fear, serious injuries and damage to themselves on the streets of Kansas City.

“Vehicles are not toys and the streets are not playgrounds for lawlessness. Everyone has the right to enjoy our city continuously from those who harm others.”

Crime, poor advertising, continues

Lucas also submitted a personal complaint with tax money to combat a new state law that was approved by legislators and voters according to which the city increases its minimum expenditure for police work.

Nevertheless, the city promised a crime against crimes after the brazen death on August 28, which shoots the beloved restaurateur Shaun Brady from Brady & Fox on 63rd Street and the Rockhill Road.

In the meantime, the Country Club Plaza has used armed private security officers to patrol the popular outdoor shopping center for the first time in over 30 years.

“The step comes after a number of top-class security concerns last summer, including illegal ATV activities, theft and several shootings that have alerted companies and visitors alike,” reports KCTV5.

Recently a multi-agency operation with the police from Kansas City, the FBI, ATF, DEA and Missouri Highway Patrol led to the arrest of 96 and the confiscation of drugs and dozens of weapons.

But it could not prevent the bad advertising that was reached over the Atlantic last week.

“Despite that [mayor’s] Statements, many locals in the region are of the opinion that both the city tour and the police officers do not carry out their Due Diligence continuously when solving the ongoing problem, ”writes the Daily Mail.

“Mayor Lucas had publicly encouraged the residents to contact their concerns, but many – including Gilmore – never report an answer.”

In recent years, the inhabitants of Kansas City have been completely overwhelmed by the city's reaction to crime, especially with the failure of the Jackson County public prosecutor's office, and to obtain convictions.

The newly elected prosecutor Melesa Johnson seems as if she will be an improvement, says Willett.

“You saw when new prosecutors come in and are not hard in the crime, they don't have a long term,” says Willett. “You saw that in St. Louis. So I hope that this new prosecutor will learn to teach weak prosecutors.

“Our city demands it. Business owners, residents, people who take care of our area, even people who do not live in Kansas City – they want Kansas City to be safe. They want the crime to be stopped and they want [authorities] be hard. “