Kansas City’s Democratic mayor has passed the buck to police about his city’s collapse into Mad Max-style lawlessness, with gangs of thugs and bikers scaring locals to stay in their homes after dark.
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Quinton Lucas slammed the ‘reckless and foolish’ street-racing gangs that terrify locals, but rejected claims that he’s personally responsible for the collapse of law and order in his city.
Residents and business owners accuse Lucas of soft-on-crime policies and failing to prosecute lawbreakers since the George Floyd race riots of 2020, and of ignoring their repeated pleas for public safety.
Despite these widespread concerns, Lucas said the problem was under control, that Kansas City could ‘handle this moment’ and that a police recruitment drive would get more officers on the streets in the coming months.
He spoke as his terrified residents complain that downtown Kansas City has become a hotspot for illegal street racing, reckless ATV and dirt bike riders tearing through the neighborhoods.
Locals now fear to tread downtown after dark — and owners of bars and restaurants there say they can understand why, while also complaining that they’re on the brink of going bust.
The dystopian scenes recall the Mad Max movies, which saw a ‘road warrior’ played by Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy terrorized by post-apocalyptic gangs riding motorbikes and ATVs across the Australian desert.
Another video of brazen lawlessness emerged this week, showing two people mercilessly punching and kicking another person on the sidewalk at a bus stop in the downtown area at night.
‘We need to make sure that we have enough officers,’ Mayor Lucas, 40, told Daily Mail in a phone interview on Friday.