Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Leawood Court celebrates diversity
Today I went to the Leawood municipal court today so that I could help them in their efforts to raise funds to repair potholes in Hallbrook (traffic ticket) and it was an extremely interesting experience.
1. The first thing you notice is that more than half the people sitting in the 50 seat courtroom are black. This is an amazing fact considering that the black population in Leawood is probably less than 1%. This fact wasn't lost among the people in attendance. The guy sitting next to me said it was ridiculous and way too obvious.
2. The amount of money the city earns on traffic tickets is a joke. There is no way that a city as small as Leawood could have that many traffic infractions UNLESS they are purposely using it to raise funds and not to protect and serve it's citizens.
3. The types of violations people are being ticketed for are a joke. I wont go into details due to their privacy but I had never heard of people getting ticketed for the crap they were.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Find out if you live next to a JOCO Housing Project
KSHousingSearch.org | Find Rental Properties in Kansas
Interesting map that shows just how much Section 8 housing that there is in JOCO. If you live North of 121st street you can kiss your property value and safety good bye.
MORE JOCO VIOLENCE
Shawnee man shot at apartment complex
Here we go again. Another violent crime in North Joco and yes at yet ANOTHER APARTMENT COMPLEX. The county is starting to feel the effects of the choices it made to allow section 8 housing to overrun the north part of the county instead of improving it.
Expansion south destroyed KCMO and now it is destroying JOCO. Our elected officials have failed us all and sold us out to contractors, builders and retailers that would rather build new than rehab the old.
JOCO PD's are not ready
After decades of serving as nothing more than revenue collectors and prostitution raiders it is safe to say that the Police Departments in JOCO aren't ready to handle the violent crime that comes with a growing and diverse community (except for the Lenexa PD, they are the elite exception). For the past 10 years the north side apartment complexes have been transformed into housing projects with little mention made to the general public. Residents that have lived in these areas have seen their property values ruined, schools decay and violence increase, again with little to no mention of it by community leaders.
Instead of controlling the high crime areas in our county our "leaders" feel that it is better for law enforcement to write as many tickets as possible so that they can pad their pockets and repave the same roads 100 times over and over. Instead of training our police departments on crime fighting they have turned them into armed meter maids.
So should we be surprised when people end up murdered in one of our special apartment complexes? Hell, the cops probably gave the corpse a ticket for loitering.
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