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More Deadly Silence
Continued from page 2
Published on October 12, 2006
Bonnie Muse spoke up. It was the anniversary of her daughter's death and also her own birthday.
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Six-year-old Starr Riley, at right, was one of those who recently protested the lack of attention to the city's murder rate. Her cousin, 19-year-old Larry Riley, was killed in an unsolved drive-by shooting three years ago.
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The Kansas City Crime Commission Report, Alvin Brooks, Ron McMillan, Rich Lockhart, homicides in Kansas City"How is it that you can get in a car accident and you'll be on the news for two days, but in the ghetto — that's what they call our section, the ghetto — you can get shot like this guy on 72nd and Paseo and it's not hardly on the news at all?" Robert Muse wondered aloud after the vigil was over.
Lockhart notes that this year's homicide rate decrease of 19 percent is significant. "When crime is down, when homicides are down, it's not nearly as sensational," he says. "When things are up, there's the appearance that something's wrong.... The normal course of things is what we're seeing this year. Normal meaning historical, I guess. One homicide's too many for us. I don't want to paint the picture that we're happy with a certain number of homicides."
No, nobody's happy with a certain number of homicides. They're just quiet. Deadly quiet. — As told to Nadia Pflaum
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