you get the same thing with city issuesloftguy wrote:Most of us downtown have been trained with the mantra," if you don't want it to happen again-make a police report".chaglang wrote:They ran out of funding. It was a one-time program.Eon Blue wrote: There are occasionally bicycle patrols (that ride on the sidewalk; that's a grumble for a separate topic.) A couple years ago the PD tried out foot patrols in a couple areas of the city. There was a lot of hype, but to my recollection it went away quietly without much of a follow up. Does anyone have any more information on that?
There is a Troost CID in the works. There's a recognition that having uniformed people on the street (who aren't law enforcement) can have a very positive effect. But it's yet not known what kind of budget the current businesses on Troost can sustain.
But there also needs to be a little bit of an attitude adjustment from the KCPD. Earlier this summer a couple of neighborhoods were being hit hard by people stealing lawn equipment, etc, out of backyards and garages. Correctly, the KCPD's focus is on violent crime, but they even refused to vary their route back to Central Patrol and drive down Harrison, Forest, Tracy instead. We were told to invest in security cameras and admonished for not always filing police reports when things get stolen, and for talking about the thefts on social media. Having a better response from the KCPD (even in the form of them simply driving through) and uniformed CID people could make a significant quality of life improvement.
The KCPD deploys patrols in direct response to crime reports. If you want cops on your block, you have to tell them that something specific is taking place, otherwise you get bupkis.
if you want people to pay attention to non-crime issues, file 311 tickets.
and some of them lead to crime. if there's a big pile of trash left forever people know the place isn't monitored. like I found a dump behind a building on troost. I reported it