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1. Cleansing Crime Cleansing Crime May/8/2002 Story features four CAT/CAN officers of the East Patrol of the Kansas City Police Department. Through their efforts, Independence Avenue in the Northeast area as been cleaned up of drug houses and prostitution...
2. Enough is Enough: Roberts and Bales Area Has Checkered Past and Questionable Future Enough is Enough: Roberts and Bales Area Has Checkered Past and Questionable Future September/6/2000 Editorial which examines why the Bales, Roberts, and Independence Avenue intersection has become a center of prostitution, drugs, and violent crime. Items mentioned include a Fast Stop store in the area,...
3. It Takes One To Know One: Prostitute Recovery Program To Open Historic Northeast Office, Ministry It Takes One To Know One: Prostitute Recovery Program To Open Historic Northeast Office, Ministry March/20/2002 Business owners and residents of the Northeast area cruised the Independence Avenue corridor looking for prostitution activities. This year they will partner with the Veronica's Voice program which seeks...
4. Past Prostitution and Proud of It Past Prostitution and Proud of It August 27, 2003 Color photos and article about the rehabilitation of former prostitutes in the Northeast area of Kansas City. Description of the local "Veronica's Voice" project in cooperation with other agencies in breaking...
5. Preventing Prostitution In Neighborhoods Preventing Prostitution In Neighborhoods July/31/2002 Community organizers, police officers and concerned citizens recently met in the Don Bosco Senior High Gymnasium to discuss the issue of prostitution on Independence Avenue. Community organizer, Bobbi...
6. Prostitution Crackdown Prostitution Crackdown August/21/2002 Update on the continuing problem of prostitution along Independence Avenue in the Northeast area. Report of a recent police sting operation. "Operation Streetsweep: Taking Back Our Streets" has both short-term...
7. School Broad School Broad August/8-14/2002 Article detailing several efforts to fight prostitution on Independence Avenue in the Northeast area of Kansas City. Former school board member Michelle Hensley proposes to form a "red light district"...
8. Were You on the Bus? Were You on the Bus? August/29/2001 Article about the crime prevention efforts of Northeast Kansas City activists against "pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers" during the area's "20-year high" vice crime rate in 2001.