Crime and trash in east KC

If Mayor Funkhouser wants to spur investment in east Kansas City, here are a couple of top priorities to address:

Crime: Drugs, prostitution, burglary, and armed robbery are out of control in east Kansas City. In 23 years of investing in single-family homes on the east side, crime is the worst I’ve ever seen.

One of my best tenants, a couple buying a house on contract from our company, came into my office recently and said that the husband was robbed at gunpoint and had his car stolen in broad daylight while working on the car in his driveway. They are planning to move out of Kansas City.

If we continue to lose our best families, there won’t be any KC left.

Trash: Tons and tons of it on the streets, curbs, sidewalks and vacant lots. Who wants to live in a trash dump?

What are we to do? The good people are moving out, and that leaves us with the drug dealers, prostitutes and other criminals.

Stephen Summers
President, Glennco Inc.
Independence

Comments

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Actually we must define prostitution. Family courts basically are pimps when it comes down to it. Social wrokers work as their advisers and recruiters. It's basically a big pin the tail on the donkey game.

[solomon]

Good afternoon NYAJ,

I don't have a real pro or con position to prostitution from a moral standpoint, as it is the oldest profession. You would think though, that it is the ultimate expression of a womans right to choose. If a grown woman decides she wants to make money with her body who are we to say she can't?

That being said it is not always a choice made willingly and there needs to be continued prosecution against slavers and those who would recruit minors with money, false promises, drugs and violence.

[Joe Six-Pack]

Drugs and trash are a problem.

I dont see rampant prostitution. State policy drives it to the street by making it totally illegal. If it were legal in regulated controlled circumstances, you would never see it on the street.

Think back to yesterdays letter about the March of Folly..... perverse persistence in unworkable and counter-productive policies....and an unconstitutional to it too.

[Joe Six-Pack]

Prostutution is not out of control in KCMO. What an over sensationalized bunch of crap. Stop lying.

[ChotoCK]

I bet you would love the mayor to come and wipe your nose also?

Neighborhoods will never get any better until the folks living there, both renters and owners, start taking a bit of responcibility for the place. Parents need to put the smack down on their kids, neighbors need to give each other a hand at babysitting, lawn work, home repairs.

Its tough, and there will always be the one twit of a neighbor, but its better than sitting around and asking the state/city/nation do it for you. The state can support, but it should not do everything for you.