Crime

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Citizen and Nextdoor Are Making Us All Vigilantes. Is That a Good Thing?

Public safety apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen are creating a new kind of surveillance culture, absent of context.

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Missourians Losing Big When it Comes to Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is surging, and Missouri suffered the largest average loss in the country during 2020.

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curiousKC | When Sutera’s Restaurant Was a Sports Betting Hub

Sutera’s Restaurant, a popular Brookside hot spot, was at the center of a notorious sports gambling investigation in the 1980s.

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Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks | From the Gridiron to the Super Bowl of Politics

Nick’s rundown includes Arrowhead Stadium’s protocol after a fan tested positive, Missouri governor in quarantine, being a jury in COVID-19, hair discrimination and a new way to enjoy the symphony.

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Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks | Absentee Voting Begins Tuesday in Missouri

The week ahead in Kansas City includes the beginning of voting in the upcoming election, the search for a city manager in Kansas City and a review of local streets and monuments with racists ties.

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Security is heightened in minority neighborhoods. But why?

curiousKC | A (Mis)perception of Crime

Why are security measures heightened in some KC neighborhoods and not others? curiousKC looked into how public and private buildings are secured to find out why.

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Grand Theft ‘Not-O’

First, the stomach sinks. Then, the dread sets in. Sure enough, thieves have made off with your car. Most victims would report the theft to the police and hope for the best. But that’s not the way Danielle Reno rolls. When the Mission, Kansas, woman’s car was stolen from a QuikTrip near North Oak Trafficway…

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Kansas City police investigate a homicide in late 2015

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 his memory. A wailing mother, still in her nightgown, was kneeling in the middle of…

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Update: Waiter! There Is A Bug In My Pizza

Update: After this story was published on Jan. 16, Kansas Citians wrote to us asking if the restaurant on Independence Avenue was somehow connected to the one they knew on Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, Kansas. The answer is yes, the two were linked, according to longtime Pitch writer Charles Ferruzza. Members of the Kansas City…

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Keeping the Pressure On, His Memory Alive

Updated 1:38 p.m. July 29 The family of a man shot to death by Kansas City police three years ago has filed a wrongful death suit against the department, alleging that its policies were to blame for an incident that quickly spun out of control. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for…

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