Craigslist do and don’t advice from police
Courtesy KCPD.
If you go to a Kansas City police station for a Craigslist transaction, don’t expect a welcome from police.
Unlike officers in some cities, police here do not encourage or want the deals in police parking lots or stations, Police ...
NoVA report and video released
Photo from Nova video.
NoVA worker Michael Toombs tells a client, “You kinda got your life back, was that kinda good?”
The client answers, “There ain’t no kinda about it.”
The Kansas City No Violence Alliance on Tuesday released a ...
NoVA merges military and police work
By Joe Lambe
Kelly Sapp, now a police officer with the No Violence Alliance, trained in the villages of Afghanistan and Iraq.
His work with probation and parole “clients” is not so different from drinking tea with village elders and the ...
City gets grant to fight homicide with health care
The current Ain4Peace target area in yellow, and the expanded area in gray. (The west side of this map is Wabash and the south side is Blue Parkway).
Well, OK, the city will take that $3 million federal grant to more than triple an effort to ...
No violence alliance fights stubborn homicide rate: people keep killing each other
By Joe Lambe
The Kansas City No Violence Alliance worked this year to greatly reduce homicides in one of the nation’s most violent cities, but that won’t come easy.
As of Monday, the yearly total stood at 103 and will likely end up above ...
Police reminder – criminals may be shopping at your house
Photo used under a Creative Commons License courtesy Leon Brocard.
Jim Schriever over at Central Patrol has a timely warning for all of us.
He says as we start to do our holiday shopping, criminals are beginning their shopping as well.
That ...
Clergy unite to attack violence, ask all faiths to join this weekend
As Kansas City’s homicide count climbs, with even a 3-year-old girl murdered with her mother, authorities are trying everything.
About a dozen clergy gathered Tuesday to pray and call for congregations throughout the area to observe ...
Aim4Peace gets $1.2 million grant
The city said today its Aim4Peace program has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to expand its violence prevention programs within the east patrol district of the Kansas City Police Department.
The three-year grant from the U.S. Department of ...
Tips can help uncover human trafficking
Mattresses on a business floor and workers unable to provide identity papers can signal modern slavery.
Federal authorities team with police to combat human trafficking in Missouri and Kansas but the crime is often well hidden and tips can help ...
NoVA KC gets $1 million to reduce violent crime
A $1 million crime-fight grant will allow KC NoVA to focus on an area bounded roughly by25th Street on the north, 39th on the south and between Paseo andBenton boulevards. The area has one of the higher crime rates in thecity.
Kansas City’s ...
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