Community Improvement Districts talk about solutions to wave of property crimes in KC [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and Police Chief Stacey Graves hosted a roundtable with Community Improvement Districts.

Groups like Waldo, Troost, Downtown/River Market, and Independence Avenue shared their thoughts on the wave of property crime that has plagued the area.

The collective CIDs asked for training from KCPD to better prepare reports for officers to use in crimes and discussed creating a network that they can access to track bad actors that may be targeting different neighborhoods on different nights of the week.

Meetings like the one that took place today used to regularly happen in front of previous City Managers. CID Independence Avenue Manager Bobbi Baker-Hughes would like to see those meetings return with Brian Platt.

“I absolutely would love them to come back into play – …