The issues defy quick solutions. The police department’s East Side patrol division is just four blocks away, though police Maj. Chris Young said that even an “overwhelming presence” of officers in recent months didn’t significantly decrease incidents. Young, the patrol division’s commander, links the rise in crime to fallout from the pandemic, rising inflation and a shortage of police officers following racial injustice protests in 2020.
Part of the problem is the city’s lack of a jail, Young said. The left-leaning council closed the previous facility in 2009 as a cost-saving measure — a move the Kansas City Star has called a “$250 million mistake” — people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in rural counties miles away.
That allows them to hop on the local bus system — free since the pandemic — and head back to the same location, Young said.
“We typically have the same group of offenders every week that are recognizable by face and by name, just loitering and hanging out,” he said. “A small percentage of people are ruining it for the rest of the community that deserves to go to their grocery store and their library.”
No, the solution is simple. Jail the lumpen.
‘KC Sun Fresh was the city’s attempt to alleviate a lack of access to healthy food in its urban center.’
Ahhh . . . ‘healthy’ food. Meaning they aren’t serious.
‘Every neighborhood deserves a good grocery store.’
Deserves? You keep voting Democrat; you get what you deserve. Hard.
There is no jail though.
So the solution is even simpler – shoot them.
All of the solutions are simple.
The issues defy quick solutions that leftie morons will accept.
TFTFY
One other fun bit – lefties in the US came up with the term “food desert” to describe neighborhoods where there are no grocery stores., and presumably people can’t get “healthy” food.
It turns out that they exclude stores under some arbitrary large number of square feet, so if you have a lovely fruit & veg stand next door you’re still in a “desert”. And they ignore the fact that canned & frozen fruits & veg are pretty much as nutritious & healthy as fresh.
Other than that…
@ Esteban
“The Ministry of Truth”
Obviously a farm is a “food desert”
The issues do not ‘defy quick solutions’. The issue is that the PTB in Kansas City refuse to implement the quick solutions – arrest, imprisonment and, where applicable, involutary confinement in a mental-health facility.
llater,
llamas
“No, the solution is simple. Jail the lumpen.”
Sissie!
Jail the lumpen and sterilise them.
“One other fun bit – lefties in the US came up with the term “food desert” to describe neighborhoods where there are no grocery stores.”
How many people have died? Wait . . . what? None?
When I hear stories of mass starvation, I might start caring.
Nah, probably won’t.
‘So the solution is even simpler – shoot them.’
Must admit I’m a wimp Agammamon. I was just going to flog them.