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New crime task force

October 7, 2005 |

The city’s murder tally has now hit 96, compared with 91 for all of 2004. The rising number has prompted Maryor Barnes to follow her usual M.O. and appoint a grand task force to study the issue. It will be led by Mayor Pro Tem Alvin Brooks and is due to report back on January 12, almost a year after the problem started.

Meanwhile the KCPD continues to respond to the East Side’s bloodshed by sending 100 new police officers to the Northland…


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  1. Hippster on October 7, 2005 8:40 am

    Hey, if anything can solve the murder problem, it’s a 29-person task force with a 3-month deadline to come up with some sort of report. I don’t expect any political grandstanding or petty in-fighting. How long before we hear that murders are way up in part due to the lack of opportunities for minority and women contractors to get work on the Sprint Center?

    A 29-person committee is exactly the sort of innovative idea that local government is famous for. It’s a cunning plan that cannot fail.

  2. Northeast Guy on October 8, 2005 10:09 am

    I’m actually considering applying for a spot on this task force. However, my reputation as a common sense libertarian may render me unqualified.

  3. takahiro katagiri on April 6, 2006 2:50 pm

    In Japan , the criminal that inventing psychopath by detective is done and never investigated .
    In Japan , these criminals controled mass communications , and never advertise by mass communications .
    This is a case of N city in Japan .

    Now I am being telephone-wire tapping and male is looked by illegal method and when post comment or contact by internet telephone line is suddenly cut , so safe contact is very difficult ( maybe need cipher ) , and many obstruction will proof this exist of criminals .

    Please look and advertise these crime , and protect human right .

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