The total number of homicides has been rising and falling for decades here in Kansas City, Missouri. Right now, we're in the midst of a scary climb. It's easy in times like these to ask, why? We always seem to start there. We want to change the conversation.
To wrap up our series The Argument, we take you out to 45th and Cleveland after a shooting, tag along with police knocking on doors in the Northeast, talk with Wyandotte County's District Attorney, and we gather a group of some of our city's violence prevention leaders, in one room, for the first time.
Panel:
- Kamisha Stanton, violence program coordinator, City of Kansas City, Missouri
- Vince Ortega, deputy director, Jackson County COMBAT
- Rashid Junaid, violence prevention manager, Aim4Peace
- Major Tye Grant, violent crimes division, Kansas City Police Department