Marching Against Homicide

In Kansas City, a publicity campaign seemed to curtail crime in a bad neighborhood, but will the good times roll?

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February 4, 2005, 1:00 PM PST

"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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