Columbia SquareOffs

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Bonnie C Sandker
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Bonnie C Sandker

I'm afraid to come to Columbia now in the evening. It seems like these gangs are everywhere and don't care who they kill.

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Linda Lavere
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Linda Lavere

I have lived here my entire life and it's only getting worse. Columbia being halfway between STL & KC has always been an issue with gang & drug crime but now it's as though no one values how precious life is. I'm sad & scared living here.

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Christopher Watson
Christopher Watson

The price of growth is high crime, happens in all Citys that desire to increase. Since we have a lot of people 3/4 a year, things will only get worse because they didn't build the infostructure while they expanded! Growing more only hurts us more.

Angela Field
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Angela Field

It seems like every time I read the news around my area, there are shootings every week in Columbia, many times at places I have been or drove by recently. I moved from St. Louis to Callaway county to get away from the violence. I never feel safe in Columbia.

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No

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Trevor Smith
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Trevor Smith

I'm more worried about the conditions that create violence. People can't afford anything right now, and it's really starting to impact people's psyche. We'll continue to see the rise of crime until we deal with the material conditions that create it.

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David Mark Hernandez
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David Mark Hernandez

COMO does not have a monopoly on violent crime. Until a viable plan to reduce the crime is developed and the underlying problems causing the crime fixed, we will continue to have crime. For those who think this is a liberal issue, WAKE UP! It's not.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Liberal judges have created most of the problem. And Columbia has more crime than most cities it's size.

Vernon Taylor
Vernon Taylor

Chicago, Detroit, New York; all liberal Peoples Republic of China type cities with left wing liberal wunderkinds running the show need to share their secret of gun and crime control. Otherwise, the rest of us just don't have the same kind of "know what I'm sayin."

Christopher Watson
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Christopher Watson

I moved here from Kansas City in 91, and still the crime rate doesn't even come close to what I grew up with, dodgeing bullets since I was eight. If you make new laws, it will only effect the citizens, not the criminals. You can buy a throw away for $50 downtown.

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Vernon Taylor
Vernon Taylor

So we can get off this gun train then? Thanks from experience.

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Christopher, you say the price of growth is high crime? I guess you've been buying that new federally illegal class 1 marijuana, that the state is selling. The price of growth, should improve everyone's lives.

Public safety

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Other staffing

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Public safety

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Vernon Taylor
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Vernon Taylor

You can't be politically correct and protect normal citizens at the same time.

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Other staffing

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Cindy L. Robinson
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Cindy L. Robinson

the staffing problem is their Biggest problem, more employees needed, would be less crimes, more trash pickups, better bus routes

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Nathan Butler
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Nathan Butler

Police in this town run roughshod over POC and unhomed communities. They prioritize pursuing poor people over solving crimes that have actual victims. Disparate stop data has only gotten worse over the decade I've lived here. #defundthepolice

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nathaniel bock
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nathaniel bock

Not only are pay and benefits low, the officers need to know that the Council and elected leaders support their efforts to protect and serve. Our officers need to be well compensated but also know from the beginning of their career what is expected of them as police officers here in this city.

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Vernon Taylor
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Vernon Taylor

Absolutely not. The are the only line of protection between law abiding citizens and the thugs that the city administration so dearly loves and protects.

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Max DeYoung
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Max DeYoung

The city needs to hire more LEO's to keep track of the blooming homeless population, that the city keeps enabling. The State of the City address will ask for more money for the homeless amid a Police shortage crisis. The mayor will arrive in a clown car with other clowns.

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