In Kansas City, a publicity campaign seemed to curtail crime in a bad neighborhood, but will the good times roll?
"Rachel Riley and her neighbors were hailed by The Kansas City Star for their yearlong series of marches, which were credited with all but stopping a dismal series of crimes...since Riley had organized the marches and convinced the Kansas City Police Department to send a task force into the area, the number of homicides had dropped to just one," down from 19 the year before. However, "[a]lthough Riley's marchers have made an impact in her immediate area, for the larger region that surrounds her block -- known as the 23rd Street Political Action Committee -- overall crime reports not only didn't go down but actually increased a little over the previous year."
Thanks to David Gest
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