Code Enforcement Process: "Code enforcement is an investment that pays off for a city and its citizens by helping to keep the city vital. The Neighborhood Preservation Division's (NPD) enforcement of the property maintenance code and the nuisance code helps to ensure that there is a minimum level standard required for maintaining properties in Kansas City, Mo. The division provides professional code enforcement services with the goal of improving and stabilizing neighborhoods, protecting property values and helping to promote a healthy, safe environment."
Complaints concerning possible code violations are turned in to NPD through three primary sources:
(1)Citizen complaints submitted to the Action Center (immediate neighbors, Neighborhood Association, or other assholes)
(2)Citizen complaints submitted directly to NPD (usually through Neighborhood Association or some other asshole)
(3)Code violations picked up in the field by the inspector (rarely)
The problem with this process is the discriminatory fashion in which the nuisance codes are applied.
San Francisco had a similar process in which a codes inspector resigned after controversy surrounding a house that was target of Code Enforcement. Ethics violations are not the only problems facing a process like this.
Santa Monica's City attorney maintains "a main principal with enforcement is that it has to be fair and even-handed," City Attorney Marsha Moutrie said. "When the issue is aesthetic it becomes harder for people to understand why you have to enforce the law for everyone, but it still has to be enforced fairly if it is going to be enforced at all, like any law." This is not the case in kansas City
In many cities they have adopted standards by which codes violations must be visible from the property of the complaining party. In other words, people would not be allowed to walk around someone elses neighborhood with a clipboard full of addresses they plan to email to their friend who works for Old Northeast, who in turn emails it to their friend who works in Codes enforcement, who dispatches somebody like Clinton out here in the Northeast looking like a gaunt prospector mumbling "well, if they can't afford to fix it up they'll have to sell it to somebody who will". Codes enforcement is a very important issue in Kansas City due to the declining housing stock although should not be the centerpiece of anyones
campaign. Mark is inching his way slowly to the
political suicide watchlist.
Lets talk about why people are being asked to leave drug treatment due to lack in funding while COMBAT holds on to a Bazillion dollar surplus. Lets talk about why people have to wait 30 minutes or more for an officer to arrive after 911 call, if they arrive at all. Lets talk about why Downtown continues to be the centerpiece of development, while totally ignoring the rest of the city (which is crumbling apart by the way). Lets talk about why the council approves Payday Loan and pawn businesses in our area when there's already 500 of them. Lets talk about why they clean our street up once a year for the annual bike race but rarely see them again until next year. Lets talk about why they have a bus system (strategically designed routes) which make it nearly impossible for Northeast residents to access certain areas of the city, or other distressed areas as well.
Lets talk about why candidates for council and mayor refuse to take a position which lends itself to:
(1) Forcing KCPD to do its job, maybe even putting the department under council control.
(2) Forcing Parks and Rec to do their job instead of sitting in their trucks all day at the concourse.
(3) Forcing Public Works to care for the streets.
(4)Making contractors receiving city contracts accountable for their work and the ones who fail the city are not offered contract renewal.
(5)Actually acting like they have a set of nuts and assuming the leadership roles you've been entrusted with.
(6)Encouraging every possible branch of local government to hit our streets and do the jobs they've been hired to do.
Thats all. I know I've totally raised the bar for our new mayor and council.
One suspect has pleaded guilty and 5 others have been charged with having sex with three middle-school girls recently. 
