Swope Community Builders - Community Safety

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Community Safety Initiative

Through this national program sponsored by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Swope Community Builders partners with local residents, area businesses and the Kansas City, Mo. Police Department to reduce crime and to ensure safety in revitalized neighborhoods. This collaboration promotes understanding and respect among developers, residents and police as they work together to create and sustain vibrant and secure neighborhoods. The Community Safety Initiative is funded by a grant from the Department of Justice. Neighborhood meetings provide opportunities to discuss safety, housing, health, and crime issues.

Neighborhood Attorney Initiative

Nuisance properties abound in Kansas City. Although the city of Kansas City, Mo. works to curb problem properties through Neighborhood Preservation and other programs in City Hall, code enforcers must be patient and diligent as the process is mired in red-tape, delays and dead-ends. To help stop nuisances where other methods have failed, Swope Community Builders has partnered with Legal Aid of Western Missouri in the Neighborhood Attorney Initiative (NAI). The NAI provides funds and support for a neighborhood attorney to work with priority neighborhoods in identifying nuisance properties, forming solutions to curb the nuisance and pursuing legal action to force abatement, if necessary. Priority neighborhoods include: Ivanhoe, Mt. Cleveland, Oak Park, Sheraton Estates, Swope Parkway Elmwood and Town Fork Creek.

For information about Swope Community Builders' Neighborhood Attorney Initiative, call (816) 627-2140.

Resources

Below are sites that are relevant to neighborhood revitalization, crime watch groups and related issues.

KCMO Police Department - Each of the six Patrol Divisions has a Community Interaction Officer, assigned to working with neighborhoods, citizens, and community groups. Their website also contains crime statistics and current crime trends, as well as tips for avoiding becoming a victim.

CityScope - Demographic and crime data for KCMO neighborhoods (by Census boundaries), as well as data for much of the wider Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Requires registration to use most services.

Mid-America Regional Council - MARC provides area-focused solutions to area problems in a variety of areas, including administering the 9-1-1 service for the entire metropolitan area.

Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission – 816-474-TIPS! Sound familiar? This is the parent organization for the Crime Stoppers Hotline in the greater Kansas City area. They also now run the ACCENT program for community service workers.