No one at any time has acted violently, especially in front of our 5 year old.

The police force has good leadership and picks their battles; they don't bother with low-violence offenders like the corner weed dealer and don't bother slapping misdemeanors on people drinking or smoking on their porch on a Sunday afternoon, but they do go after violent gangs and groups aggressively and have made progress over the last couple of years.

A kid looks like (s)he is going down a violent path?

The trick is how to successfully move potentially violent criminals, nonviolently.

The most violent person that’s not locked up.  

Ive been shocked at some areas with high violent crime stats. 

In the 1980's Reagan closed down all the sanitariums(the places like mental hospitals, for non-criminals and non-violent) to save on budget and reduce deficits, blah, blah, blah, but unfortunately when other politicians(from both partys) later jacked up the same budgets and taxes and even increased spending far past the Reagan cuts, eliminating any savings from the cuts, nobody thought to replace the eliminated services for the truly needy, the ones that wouldn't be able to get an apartment or a job(or would be limited in their options) even with supervision and training in doing.The reason I get so angry at you and your comments is because your solution and perspective is constantly blaming and vilifying the competent and productive of our society.

@Charlie Moore mine are very simple...Income equal to 3x rentNo previous evictionsNo violent feloniesNo major discrepancies on credit reportNo negative landlord refrencesIf I get multiple qualifies applicants, I choose the most qualified applicant.

I know of many who have sacrificed their lives in YOUR service...attempting to arrest extremely violent criminals.

Call me biased but I’m seeing more violent crime as reported on the news taking place in South Wichita than I am NE, though it seems fairly minimal to me and almost never random.