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Kansas City No Violence Alliance Reboots As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Sly James has grown accustomed to phone calls from the police chief about yet another homicide. Sometimes James goes to the scene, and the details of one, from a Sunday morning, are seared into…

Rural Suicide Rates Are Rising In Kansas And Solutions Won’t Come Easy Sparsely populated communities face unique challenges, such as isolation and cultural stigmas about mental health, that call for tailored suicide prevention approaches.

Suicide-Prevention Specialists Urge Parents To Safely Store Guns, Ammo Suicide-prevention advocates say access to guns in households with at-risk teenagers is a recipe for disaster.

Left-Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown Some left-wing groups in Kansas and Missouri are taking up arms for community protection in the face of systemic social injustice.

Gun Violence Persists as New KCMO Mayor Takes Office Gun Violence Persists as New KCMO Mayor Takes Office

School Shootings Pit Safety Vs. Pedagogy In the aftermath of World War II, amidst Cold War tensions with the Soviets, U.S. students practiced “duck and cover” drills to prepare for nuclear attack. Fast forward more than half a century, and one of the most common safety…

Reducing Kansas City’s Violent Crime This time, Danelle Williams and Vito Mazzara arrived prepared. The two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers didn’t want to be overwhelmed, like a previous evening last winter, when passersby at 35th Street and Prospect Avenue snapped up their inventory in…

Ottawa shooting renews focus on crisis intervention training Out of the 8,000 full- and part-time law enforcement officers in Kansas, only 1 in 4 have been trained to handle crisis calls involving the mentally ill. Records show that 80 percent of the nearly 1,800 trained officers work in…

Learning from Sandy Hook Part of Nicole Hockley is frozen in a world before Dec. 14, 2012, when her 6-year-old son Dylan would pretend he was a butterfly. “He’s my beautiful baby boy with captivating eyes and infectious giggle and warm deep cuddles. He…

In the Crossfire Just this week, the New York Times detailed a study finding that police are more likely to rough up blacks than whites, meaning tactics like cuffs, pepper spray, and forcing the suspect against a wall.  However, it also found no racial bias…