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With an alarming rise in the murder rate, the KCPD is responding by asking the City Council for money to hire 100 new police officers… for the Northland. The new officers are for the Shoal Creek Patrol station currently under construction at I-435 and Pleasant Valley Road.
The rapid sprawl and population growth of the Northland is definitely increasing crime in the area. However, does it really make sense to pour so many resources into what is already the safest part of the city when at the same time the East Side is increasingly under siege? And the city is still struggling to add the 20 new officers a year that it promised in 2001.
The po-lice have been called to respond 2 times in 8 years to this Bannister Mall-area neighborhood. They were disturbance/assault calls.
Both sunny weekday mid-afternoon events took first (1998) 30 minutes for a show and the 2nd time (2005) they were cancelled after no-show in 20 minutes.
I tell people if you need help in a hurry, call the fire department.
Another 100 officers in the northland!! Golly, yikes — we can’t handle them. The QuickTrips up here don’t have parking lots big enough for all those patrol vehicles!!!