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 ...
A few Armour Boulevard rehabs increased crime, study says
By Joe Lambe
Three Armour Boulevard properties redeveloped as lower income housing have increased crime so badly that the Armour corridor is socially blighted, according to a new report.
It is the first time a social liability blight designation ...
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 ...
Morning fire damages house near Art institute
Firefighters responded early this morning to a large house fire in the 4300 block of McGee.
According to the Kansas City Star, three people were in the house at the time of the fire, but no one was injured. Firefighters also rescued several ...
Police unit targets illegal guns, takes 200
An elite police unit has now taken 200 illegal guns off city streets this year, the police chief said Monday.
The Area Command Unit, working the east, central and metro patrol divisions, recovered five guns and ammunition on Sunday, chief Darryl ...
Law and health anti-crime efforts sometimes clash
When the fight against crime involves two approaches, there can be turf problems.
Law enforcement officials with the No Violence Alliance (NoVA) depend on intelligence information to do their job, but health-based workers with Aim4PEACE are ...
City hall expected to reopen at 3 p.m.
As we reported earlier, City Hall was closed this morning due to a bomb threat. The city is now predicting the building will reopen at 3 p.m. today. Meantime, police are searching floor by floor and around the perimeter of the building to see ...
Hate crime conference coming to UMKC
School bullying, white nationalism and more will be discussed this month as a new U.S. Justice Department task force on hate crimes holds a conference at UMKC.
The free Jan. 13 conference is open to the public and will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 ...
New patrol station groundbreaking heralded as east side rebirth
In a ceremony today, officials said the new police east patrol station and crime lab will be a catalyst for rebirth of the city’s east side.
The $74 million project between Prospect and Brooklyn avenues, 26th to 27th streets is scheduled ...
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 ...
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