Following spate of break-ins, local businesses opt to go cashless [Video]

WESTWOOD HILLS, Kan. (KCTV) – It’s not just stadiums and large concert venues going cashless anymore. More and more businesses plagued by break-ins over the past year are adopting the approach, and advertising it on their windows and doors, hoping it deters burglars and robbers.

KCTV5 has reported on the overnight burglaries at dozens of businesses in multiple parts of the metro. It was such a hot-button issue that candidates for Jackson County Prosecutor included property crimes prominently in their platforms.

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ONE BLOCK GOING ALL IN

If you drive up State Line Road just past partitions private school Pembroke Hill, you’ll encounter a quaint group of shops and a coffee shop in a tiny, tile-roofed brick building. T Jensen, Hi Hat Coffe’s owner, said it was built in 1930 and used to be a Phillips 66. He’s owned the …