Our 2024 COMBAT Community Impact Report focuses on the STRiVIN’ Referral program, which reached 3,808 submissions in early 2025. The report identifies areas of need in the community but also introduces you to three people whose lives have been impacted. More
This COMBAT-funded initiative connects individuals and families with social services to assist them with a whole host issues. The objective is to address these issues before the circumstances in these people's lives worsen to point violence might occur. More
Since being launched in south Kansas City, the Striving To Reduce Violence In Neighborhoods initiative has spread to four other neighborhoods—Northeast and Mid-Town KC, as well as Independence and Raytown. The goal is to make every neighborhood safe. More
COMBAT collects a tremendous amount of data about the kind of social services people are needing to help deal with issues in their lives. The objective of the program is to get individuals and families assistance before their circumstances worsen. More
All COMBAT-funded agencies are required to participate. STRiVIN' brings together these agencies with law enforcement officials, school administrators, elected leaders, social workers, health care professionals and others to seek solutions to problems. More
Between 2018 and 2022, only seven other U.S. counties with a population of 250,000 or more had a higher firearm homicide rate than Jackson County's 22.4 per 100,000 people. Our county's rate was more than four times higher than the national 5.4 rate. > MORE
Missouri had among the 10 highest rates in the U.S. in these three categories (2018-22): firearm homicides, firearm suicides and all firearm fatalities. New York state had three times the population of our state but nearly 2,100 fewer firearm homicides. > MORE
Of the world’s 25 "wealthiest" nations, America had the worst firearm homicide rate in 2021. And it wasn’t even close. The U.S. averaged 57 firearm homicides a day in 2021, the exact same number the United Kingdom would experience over a two-yea... > MORE
An assassin, using a homemade gun, murdered Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. In a nation where people "take peace for granted" and the firearm homicide rate is near world-low 0.005 per 100,000 such a crime is "culturally un... > MORE
