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Originally Posted by jerryaldini:
I don't live in KC anymore and don't know the area, but isn't this perception alone going to be a challenge for the families that are the primary attendees at the K for the new stadium site?
The stadium will be generally safe during games with extra security/police, but the planned entertainment area around the new stadium will be another crime infested mess like the Plaza and Power & Light. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
The stadium will be generally safe during games with extra security/police, but the planned entertainment area around the new stadium will be another crime infested mess like the Plaza and Power & Light.
Power & Light is really safe and pretty much crime free. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Womble:
Question from someone who doesn't know much/anything about the justice system in KC:
Assuming the main shooter is found guilty at their trial, how likely is it that they will receive a death sentence?
It really shouldn't matter to me but I feel quite strongly that this person deserves to die.
Highly doubt it.
Will probably be a long prison term though. Still have to wait for more details, not sure about the age of perpetrators, but this is now a high profile case [Reply]
Originally Posted by Stewie:
Is anyone really surprised by this? The predominantly black neighborhoods east of downtown are shooting galleries and everyone knows it from the mayor to KCPD. It's a drug and cock measuring area where education and civility don't exist. Dumb people do dumb things. Unfortunately, this nonsense spilled over to today's celebration.
My hope is that Mayor Q and law enforcement grow a pair and finally start dealing with these cockroaches.
The day before we went to the Bears game, my buddy and I went downtown to visit the WWI Memorial. I was born in Kansas City, but haven't lived there since I was a baby 58 years ago. I have zero familiarity with the area outside of parts of Lees Summit and Arrowhead. Anyway, I stopped for gas at a station downtown right off I-70 and was amazed by how awful the neighborhood was. I was glad it was broad daylight. And that I was armed.
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
The stadium will be generally safe during games with extra security/police, but the planned entertainment area around the new stadium will be another crime infested mess like the Plaza and Power & Light.
Ok the last time I was in KC I was shocked what had become of the Plaza. I worked at the Alameda hotel down there in the 80s. Curious about Westport at night now? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
The day before we went to the Bears game, my buddy and I went downtown to visit the WWI Memorial. I was born in Kansas City, but haven't lived there since I was a baby 58 years ago. I have zero familiarity with the area outside of parts of Lees Summit and Arrowhead. Anyway, I stopped for gas at a station downtown right off I-70 and was amazed by how awful the neighborhood was. I was glad it was broad daylight. And that I was armed.
The museum was awesome, though.
Its like every big city nowadays. Some nice, typically gentrified, areas and then a lot of crumbling infrastructure infested with poverty and violence.
I actually think KC has done a decent enough job compared to many other cities.
Driving through St. Louis on I-70 north of the Arch looks like bombed out Afghanistan. It’s insane.
KC looks like the Emerald City in comparison. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
The stadium will be generally safe during games with extra security/police, but the planned entertainment area around the new stadium will be another crime infested mess like the Plaza and Power & Light.
Extra security/police? There were 900+ downtown today. [Reply]
Now nobody in my family wants to go back to Kansas City and that makes me sad. I feel like it's my second home when I come to visit. Damn you shooters to Hell. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rasputin:
Now nobody in my family wants to go back to Kansas City and that makes me sad. I feel like it's my second home when I come to visit. Damn you shooters to Hell.
