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I have seen groups of bike cops sitting in front of the arena on three seperate evening when there was an event. 

email sean and bill at the downtown council and tell them your experience....

Emailed.

It is possible they had a call somewhere else.  But there still should have been an officer or three in a car at the bollards on Grand.

I got a reply from the Bike Patrol supervisor.  The problem is that state law limits the number of days each officer can work and the 9 days of Garth Brooks concerts makes it difficult to cover them all, so they have reduced staff during the mid-week concerts and will be back to full force by the weekend.

He also acknowledged that the vagrants have probably noticed the reduced presence and are taking advantage so he'll be directing the staff they do have to pay particular notice to those problem areas.

scooterj wrote: The problem is that state law limits the number of days each officer can work...

Why?  That sounds stupid.

they have more bike staff than works per night....cop out excuse.

I don't want to post his exact response but I'll share it via PM if anyone wants to see it.

ill read it.....i just walked all around downtown and the sprint center..no cops or bumblebees to be found.

FOX news this morning is doing a piece on cars being broke into during the concerts at Sprint.  They were so happy to report something negative, you could see it on thier faces.

cknab1 wrote: FOX news this morning is doing a piece on cars being broke into during the concerts at Sprint.  They were so happy to report something negative, you could see it on thier faces.

10 bucks says that story plays on every fox broadcast all day long.

Just walked from Commerce Bank to Grinders.
# police seen:  0
# bees seen: 0

scooterj wrote: Just walked from Commerce Bank to Grinders.
# police seen:  0
# bees seen: 0

... and on a Friday night! 

cknab1 wrote: FOX news this morning is doing a piece on cars being broke into during the concerts at Sprint.  They were so happy to report something negative, you could see it on thier faces.

Wait a few days and check the car theft statistics for Johnson County -- say around Oak Park Mall.  Then email the general manager of Fox News and ask them why they didn't run a story about that at the top of the news.  Ask them why they don't run car theft stories every day at the top of the news, and why are car thefts at Sprint Center are more significant than say Legends or on Metcalf.

Perhaps we should form some sort of informal media oversight committee to flood them with email every time they do something like this.  Their crime coverage would then appear to be selective.

Personally, I'm quite fatigued at the over-emphasis on crime coverage on local TV news.  They devote too many minutes to it each day over other significant stories.

FangKC wrote: Personally, I'm quite fatigued at the over-emphasis on crime coverage on local TV news.  They devote too many minutes to it each day over other significant stories.

especially FOX, which has waaaaay too much time devoted to local news broadcasts and then wastes it on crime, "try if before you buy it", and network programming tie-ins.

2 bike cops spotted last night rolling down broadway around 9th....good sign to see them extending patrols.

Are guys are working very hard to please everyone, loseing out on family time and etc. Sorry that we can't please everyone in Kansas City, but we will try our hardest to do so.

are=our? They don't teach grammer at the police academy?.......... I kid, I kid! Welcome to the neighborhood.

K.C.Highrise wrote: are=our? They don't teach grammer at the police academy?.......... I kid, I kid! Welcome to the neighborhood.

I'm no rocket scientist, but I don't think he's a cop.  I think he works for the CID.  Is it grammer or grammar?

"Is it grammer or grammar?" ---- Well done sir, you have won this round.