New crime prevention plan announced for Kansas City, Mo. Tuesday

In the midst of one of the metro’s deadliest years as it relates to homicides, Kansas City, Mo. released a new four-pillar crime reduction plan, a result of months of work with the county prosecutor’s office, the city’s health department and federal law enforcement, among others.

The city of Kansas City, Mo. and the metro has faced a rising number of homicides this year, drawing in federal law enforcement help this summer.

On Tuesday morning, the Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Quinton Lucas revealed a new, four-pillar crime prevention plan for the city, a plan that was developed through months of collaboration with the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD), the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, the Kansas City Health Department, community organizations and federal law enforcement, the mayor’s office said.

The four pillars of the city’s plan are prevention, intervention, enforcement and administrative reform.

Some concerns about the new plan that have been raised involve questions about the city’s planned budget cuts and how they will affect the plan moving forward.

Lucas shut down the idea that KCPD could lose 400 personnel in budget cuts, reports 41 Action News, the mayor’s office going on to say that there will be a large community component to the plan.

On Wednesday, details of the crime prevention plan will be discussed by Lucas, KCPD Chief Richard Smith and Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, and on Thursday, city officials plan to make visits to neighborhoods to gather input from residents about what they believe they need to deter crime in their area.