Prosecutor says that crimes against domestic violence could lead to crimes

Kansas City, Mo-Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson exceeded her 100-day mark in office.

During her years of campaign, she made campaign promises to focus on the responsibility in crime in Jackson County.

New programs for the prevention of violence and intervention as well as a lawyer for victims of crime were among the solutions that she offered as a candidate.

With Johnson as a public prosecutor of Jackson County, the office is full of 72 lawyers.

Within the first 90 days of the Johnson public prosecutor, she expanded the Department of Crime Strategies of the Office.

The unit focuses on crime data analyzes and handling of criminals with a history of crimes.

The public prosecutor's office Johnson said during the South Kansas City Alliance meeting on Monday that many of these crimes contain property crimes.

“2025 broke off a difficult start,” said prosecutor Johnson. “I know that in the summer months we enter into which violence is usually higher, but we will keep the course.”

This year there was 54 murders in Kansas City, Missouri.

According to KCPDS Daily Mord Tracker, 27 of the cases have been released, which means that the case was handed over to the public prosecutor and charged.

A third of the murders in Jackson County contains domestic violence, which has increased by almost 120% since last year.

Prosecutor Johnson said that prevention was difficult in cases of domestic violence, but her office is committed to assuming these crimes instead of letting them sit in front of the city court.

“When something happens in my thoughts as tragic as domestic violence, of course I think that I call the police,” she said. “I will continue with law enforcement. I will bring myself and children to safety myself, but for so many people it is: 'Am I can pay for the day care center on Monday?” She said.

From now on, the public prosecutor could strive for crimes.

Cases that your office focuses on includes accused with a long history of domestic violence, municipal cases in which strangulation is involved, and those with reserved orders.

“A city case can easily be rejected and it enable us to submit a state case to crimes,” said prosecutor Johnson.

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John Sharp, President of South Kansas City Alliance, fully supports these solutions.

He shared with domestic violent crimes for him personally.

“It was so hurtful that the increase in the murders of domestic violence increased,” he said. “My late stepdaughter was a murder victim in Mizzou in Mizzou in a situation for domestic violence 25 years ago. It follows her for the rest of her life.”

Sharp said his family could never get justice in the event of his stepdaughter.

He believes that there must be stricter punishments for these crimes to prevent them from taking place.

“We can save lives by not making it out, but they have to submit fees and take them off the scene,” said Sharp. “You can't just give you a ticket and say that you stop beating your wife.”

Since the public prosecutor's office Johnson has a little more than six months before the campaign path, the South Kansas City Alliance is one of those who observe their solutions.

She informed her office, which in March submitted 80% of the cases they had received from the police.

The monthly updates of your office are shared during the regular meeting of Kansas City, Missouri, the police officer meeting.