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 ...
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 ...
“New day in KC” – teaming up against criminal networks
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson recently announced they’ll work together to target criminal networks. Dickinson now says her office is stretching resources to fight crime despite federal budget ...
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