Police, community members push for cooperation to address crime

After a joint enforcement operation Tuesday night, law enforcement and community members say cooperation between police and the public is the best way to deter crime in the city.

Enforcement joining forces to address crime in the city, several arrests were made last night thanks to a joint enforcement operation.

While these operations are nothing new for the area, the timing of this one stands out as its taking on rising voilent crime in the city.

Kq2's ron johnson explains.

After a hiatus due to covid-19, the st.

Joseph police department is back to conducting joint enforcement operations.

Sot several departments of local law enforcement teaming up to address crime in the city.

As a result of the operation police said 19 arrests were made, and they were also able to recover two firearms.the operation, which takes months to plan comes as st.

Joseph is seeing an uptick in violent crimes, specifically gun violence.

Violence that's left multiple people injured, and claimed the life of a two year old sot st.

Joseph police say these kinds of operations have proven in past to be effective, but they also say deterring crime takes more than just them.

Sot sot community leaders say they're happy to see something being done about crime, they say the operation is a start police say with everyone's help, they can restore peace to the streets.

Sot ron johnson kq2 news.

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Joseph, elwood and country club police departments took part in the joint operation, with assistance from the missouri state highway patrol and the buchanan county drug