As the level of violence and murder has increased in Kansas City amid a bloody, violent and murderous 2017 — We notice that levels of crime are also rising among our neighbors as well.
KCK, Overland Park, Independence, MO, Lee's Summit and even enclaves as far out as Lenexa have seen upticks in assaults, robberies and even murder.
Think about it this way . . . KCK has suffered a horrific crime against their police force this year and a JoCo Sheriff was sexually assaulted allegedly by two seemingly middle-class denizens. In both of these instances, the suspects weren't "urban core" offenders but denizens from outside the metro.
Think about this trend in terms of Trans-cultural diffusion - the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.
Translation: The chaos and disrespect for humankind displayed in the horrific KCMO killings is now taking hold among our suburban neighbors who see this kind of crime go unchecked and are adopting the violence as part of their own identity.
Amid increasing availability of firearms . . . This trend is just a bit more serious than middle-class kids who like Jordans and hip-hop.
More to the point . . . Beyond political and biz leaders want to stress the economic development connections of the metro whilst touting their biz development tax subsidy schemes . . . What we're seeing is that crime and desperation also link our communities. This isn't just about gun violence as the parallel rise of heroin abuse, death and addiction in the suburbs is also trending in both the urban core and suburbs.
Still, throughout the course of this blog and amid this past year we've seen the illusion of suburban safety and distance from the violence of the urban core shattered among just about everybody in the metro except maybe those denizens in faraway towns like Belton . . . And NOBODY wants to live in Belton.
But I digress . . .
The point here is that throughout history we've seen violence in societies erupt in the very same parallel manner and it's not invading hordes of Mexicans or roving gangs of urban core residents who mostly threaten suburbanites . . . Given that most people are simply trying to scrape by a living . . . Instead, the idea of violence as part of an American cultural identity, a solution to disputes and the growing disrespect for the sanctity of life now threatens all of the metro amid the horrific example of the unabated Kansas City urban core slaughter we have all witnessed.
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