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Kansas City Communities Continue Block By Block Efforts To Prevent Violence

TOPSHOT - People flee after shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. A shooting incident at a packed parade Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory killed one person and injured 21 others, police said. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

Kansas City Communities Continue Block By Block Efforts To Prevent Violence

TOPSHOT - People flee after shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. A shooting incident at a packed parade Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory killed one person and injured 21 others, police said. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

Kansas City Communities Continue Block By Block Efforts To Prevent Violence

In Kansas City neighborhood organizations do the work of violence prevention one block, and one person at at time. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

TOPSHOT - People flee after shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri. A shooting incident at a packed parade Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory killed one person and injured 21 others, police said. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

 

In Kansas City neighborhood organizations do the work of violence prevention one block, and one person at at time.

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