photos by JILL TOYOSHIBA
The Kansas City Star 
Last year’s wave of Kansas City homicides prompted “A Call to Oneness” weekend, which included the march of about 3,000 people along Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to Linwood Boulevard. The rally was organized by local clergy
When elected mayor in 2006, Cory A. Booker challenged the people of Newark, N.J., to reject their complacent attitude about violent crime on city streets.
“The true threat to our city,” he said, “is not the small group of violent criminals, but the apathy and indifference of countless good citizens who refuse to stand up for their neighborhoods and their city.”
Kansas City needs to embrace the same challenge if it wants to end the violence that has taken more than 1,000 lives over the last decade — and made ZIP code 64130 the state’s biggest producer of incarcerated killers.
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1 comment:
Until the residents get over Protect the race it will never end. Sad Sad but the facts,people see things and never report it because of fear or protect the race. So many young lives have been lost because of drugs and gangs.
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