Kansas City’s Northeast community struggles with crime along Independence Avenue.
KCPD’s crime map shows homicides, assaults and robberies, including a hot spot in the area of Independence Avenue and Van Brunt Boulevard.
The Mattie Rhodes Center’s bilingual outreach program “Parate Por Paz” , meaning Stand Up for Peace, drew awareness to the problem on a day that still pains a Kansas City family.
Tressa Lewis lost her son, Nicholas, and nephew, Reginald McGee, in a double homicide at the Phillips 66 gas station in that neighborhood…