KANSAS CITY -
Kansas City Police just spent two days on an intensive crime sweep: serving warrants and taking stolen weapons and drugs off the streets. On Friday, they're working to get new leads on some unsolved murders.
The Violent Crime Initiative went through several areas of the city to clean up the streets. They had 73 arrests with outstanding warrants and 20 new arrests and recovered almost $50,000 plus drugs and 18 guns, some of which were reported as stolen.
Police said with the bad guys behind bars, some in the community might feel more comfortable telling what they know about several unsolved murders over the last year.
150 investigators from several local police and federal agencies took to the streets knocking on doors and hoping to dig up new leads on Friday.
"We think it was a success," Sgt. Eric Greenwell said. "No one was hurt, we developed a lot of witnesses and a lot of leads and arrested a lot of people causing problems in the community."
KCPD's violent crimes division picked five unsolved murders to focus on, like Maurice West who was gunned down on Holiday Drive in south Kansas City in November last year.
They are also looking at Bernard Jackson's case. He was found shot to death in his home on 108th Street in April. Just a couple of days earlier, Helen Ragan was getting her kids ready for bed when her home was riddled with bullets and she was hit and killed.
Sgt Greenwell wouldn't speak to any specific case, but said the renewed efforts on Friday to look into these cases were successful and they found new witnesses and new leads in several cases.
"The people we met in the neighborhoods, the good people, were happy to see us," he said. "The bad people were not happy to see us."
The Violent Crime Initiative went through several areas of the city to clean up the streets. They had 73 arrests with outstanding warrants and 20 new arrests and recovered almost $50,000 plus drugs and 18 guns, some of which were reported as stolen.
Police said with the bad guys behind bars, some in the community might feel more comfortable telling what they know about several unsolved murders over the last year.
150 investigators from several local police and federal agencies took to the streets knocking on doors and hoping to dig up new leads on Friday.
"We think it was a success," Sgt. Eric Greenwell said. "No one was hurt, we developed a lot of witnesses and a lot of leads and arrested a lot of people causing problems in the community."
KCPD's violent crimes division picked five unsolved murders to focus on, like Maurice West who was gunned down on Holiday Drive in south Kansas City in November last year.
They are also looking at Bernard Jackson's case. He was found shot to death in his home on 108th Street in April. Just a couple of days earlier, Helen Ragan was getting her kids ready for bed when her home was riddled with bullets and she was hit and killed.
Sgt Greenwell wouldn't speak to any specific case, but said the renewed efforts on Friday to look into these cases were successful and they found new witnesses and new leads in several cases.
"The people we met in the neighborhoods, the good people, were happy to see us," he said. "The bad people were not happy to see us."
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