Does Columbia need an office dedicated to preventing violent crime?

If they did what they think it will sure, but it won't. It will cost money and prevent nothing. Growing government is bad mmmkay.

We need a better judicial system that keeps violent people behind bars. We need a society that demands personal responsibility: values all work, respects marriage, condemns out-of-wedlock births, greatly reduce the welfare state. Dems won't go for this since it reduces their control. FJB

Will not change anything, a waste of taxpayer money. How long have we tried to prevent spousal abuse with counseling, arrests, etc and it does not stop.

We need less government. It's not working, it's not the answer. Defund the bureaucracy, not the police

The state needs a program to prevent UM engineering school techno-nerd graduates from getting jobs synchronizing stoplights and designing things like roundabouts etc And keep their flag burning anti-American “new innovative road designs” out of Republican counties in Missouri. LOCK THEM UP!!

Columbia has a Police Department. If the prosecutor and the courts supported them, crime would decrease a great deal.