Abstract
This paper focuses on the Kansas City Preventative Patrol Study and the statistical validity of the findings. The experiment was conducted in 1972 by the Kansas City Police to test the effects of police patrol on the incidence of crime. The study lasted over a year and was evaluated by the Police Foundation, which also provided funding and technical assistance for the study. The purpose of the study was to test the assumption that police patrolling the streets in marked cars can prevent individuals from committing crimes. This paper discusses why the results of the Kansas City Preventative Patrol Study are not statistically valid. The paper is divided into three sections: a brief introduction of the study, the results, and why these results lack statistical value.

From the Paper
"Conducting the study in Kansas City does not provide an adequate testing ground. In other cities where there is high crime, high unemployment and a substantial homeless population, patrolling would prove beyond a doubt to be effective. Because the study was so limited in scope, it cannot be considered statistically valid that a high visible police presence has no impact on crime in select circumstances. Had the study been conducted across the country in rural and major metropolitan areas in different regions and then compared, there might have been sufficient data to validate the results."

Tags:surveillance, community, service

Abstract
This paper discusses how Kansas City, Missouri was at the center of the rise of jazz culture in the 1930s. It discusses the fact that this was the only place in the United States not affected by prohibition due to the control of the city by the mob-tied Democratic head Tom Pendergast. The paper looks at the type of jazz born in Kansas City and its influence.

From the Paper
"The city was full of brothels, gambling dens and bars. The city had quite a reputation and attracted not only musicians but traveling salesmen and big spenders looking to gamble. The prohibition laws that had been in place were never recognized in Kansas City. "In fact, not a single felony conviction for violating the Volstead Act, the law prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of alcohol, was ever imposed on any of its citizens" (Schirmer 175). The political power that Pendergast had attained protected the city from conforming to the laws of the rest of the United States. His power was not to be questioned; any honest voters were intimidated and kept away from voting for his rivals. This kept Pendergast in control for most of the 1920s and 1930s."

Tags:Pendergast, society, prohibition

Abstract
This paper examines the results of the Kansas City Gun Experiment, and its effects on the state of policing in that city. First, the paper gives a general description of the initiative. Then, it discusses the reasons behind this program. The paper concludes by addressing the lessons of this experiment which can be

From the Paper
"This paper shall examine the results of the Kansas City Gun Experiment, and the relevant effects on the current state of policing. The six month federal funded experiment in reducing gun violence through the seizure of illegal guns resulted in a short term reduction in crime. The racially motivated urban riots of the 1960's were a dramatic presentation of a society gone astray. The lessons of this experiment can be integrated with the evolution of policing philosophies since those of the aggressive instigating tactics of the 1960's to produce an effective means in reducing gun violence in urban areas..."

Tags:gun, crime, police

Abstract
In this article, the writer presents reviews of five concerts that took place in Kansas City in recent months.

From the Paper
"Mena the guest conductor was clearly instrumental in selecting the program which opened with the Arriega Overture to Los Esclavos. In the first half of the program South African pianist Anton Nel played the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number in a style that was cool but not excessively romantic Nel provided a brief encore with the Scribin Etude for the Left Hand ..."

Tags:Kansas City, concert reviews

Abstract
The paper outlines Charlie Parker's background and how he managed to take an active part of the Kansas City jazz scene even at a young age. The paper discusses Charlie's interest in the saxophone and relates that at the age of twenty, he had already provided his own recordings.

From the Paper
"Charlie Parker was born Charles Parker, Jr. to Adelaide ("Addie) Bailey Parker and Charlie Parker, Sr. in Kansas City, Kansas on August 29, 1920. His mother Addie was of African-American-Choctaw descent from Oklahoma while his father was an African American from Mississippi and Tennessee. Charlie Sr. wet to Kansas to work as an entertainer and stayed there for a while. (Charlie Parker: His Music, His Life).
"There isn't a whole lot known about Charlie's father who was said to have had a son, John, with a previous "wife". When Charlie Sr. married Addie, he brought John with him. It seems to be a cliche to mention that Charlie Sr. had an alcohol problem, for it seems that alcohol has played a part in so many musicians' lives, but he did. Because of this problem, Charlie's parents separated when Charlie was only quite young."

Tags:saxophone, recordings, bands

Abstract
This paper examines the parties involved in the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway. The paper presents each responsible party and discusses the role each played and the degree of their guilt in this tragedy.

From the Paper
"Additionally, the engineering firm's original designed was unable to support the minimum support value required by the Kansas City Building Code. This was a minimum of 151 kN, while the original design was capable of supporting only 90 kN. It was clear that the engineering firm involved was either incompetent or plain stupid, since the difference between the required minimum and the actual minimum in the original design is huge."

Tags:hotel, negligence, injury, engineering

Abstract
A scene-by-scene account of the massacre that took place on June 17, 1933 by Frank "Jelly" Nash . It provides a background bio of the murderer, describing his previous crimes and convictions. It then provides details of the events as they unfolded, the shootout itself and the police actions that followed. Investigations and follow-up reports are also analyzed.

From the Paper
"The massacre all began several months before June 1933. Frank "Jelly" Nash was a famous murderer, train robber, and underworld figure. "He had been involved in crime for 20 years, since 1913, when he and a young crony robbed a bank at Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Although barely out of his teens, Nash was ruthless: he killed his pal by shooting him in the back and ran off with all of the bank loot. Nash was captured and sentenced to life in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester" (Breuer 78)."

Tags:police, nash, shootout, crime, bank, robbery, prison, FBI, gangster, killing

Abstract
This paper takes a brief look at the life of Ernest Hemingway. The author describes his childhood in Illinois, working at the Kansas City Star newspaper and his involvement in World War I. The paper discusses Hemingway's influences as he began his career as a writer in Paris, surrounded by many talented expatriates, and examines the speculation over his depression and death in 1961.

From the Paper
"If literary genius can be described as one person's ability to influence the thinking of others and to do it only with written words, then Ernest Miller Hemingway was certainly deserving of the title. With his direct, declarative and streamlined style of writing, a style he first learned while writing as a newspaper journalist, Hemingway observed the world around him and the people in it, and then wrote of his observations on the nature of mankind. "

Tags:ernest, paris, war, oak, park, expatriate, italian, world, kansas, star, novel, spanish, civil, adventure, writer, depression, old, man, sea, novella

Abstract
This paper discusses the life and times of Walt Disney from his financial beginnings in a business on the brink of collapse in Kansas City and his move to Hollywood to the launch the Disney Brothers Studio with money scraped together. It outlines the development of his company over the years through the different cartoons produced and examines how Walt learned to manage each functional piece of the business and to develop organizational capabilities as well as achieve strategic and financial objectives to turn his studio into an international powerhouse through his cartoons.

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"Throughout his career, Walt continually had to meet financial and strategic objectives, and despite setbacks, he always managed to meet them, even if it meant going over budget, for which he was famous. In "Snow White," he felt Snow White looked too pale, and so thousands of frames were repainted with pink cheeks. In "Pinocchio," he felt something was missing, so Jiminy Cricket was added after the film's completion, at extensive cost. However, these details helped make the films the hits they were, and added to Disney's coffers in the end."

Tags:cartoons, producer

Abstract
Charlie Parker, born Charles Christopher Parker in 1920, was a product of Kansas City jazz as developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Parker is associated with the development of the Bebop style, and he was highly influential on jazz players who followed him. His life was short and tragic, marked by drug addiction and attempted suicide.

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"Charlie Parker, born Charles Christopher Parker in 1920, was a product of Kansas City jazz as developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Parker is associated with the development of the Bebop style, and he was highly influential on jazz players who followed him. His life was short and tragic, marked by drug addiction and attempted suicide. He was 35 when he died, but his life had been so hard on him that the death certificate gave his age as 55 because that was how he appeared (Rich 47).

Bebop represents modern jazz, which emerged as a distinctive style from movements taking place from the 1920s. Ted Gioia associates bebop with the larger force of modernism, and he notes that jazz had from the first been a modernist music whose leaders always looked forward and developed new musical forms. The rise of a new and more open modernism in the 1940s seemed an abrupt ..."