Post by libslayer on Dec 12, 2013 3:46:16 GMT
godfatherpolitics.com/13543/kansas-city-public-phone-prayer-booths-helping-reduce-crime/
officials and police departments all over the nation have been trying a number of ways to reduce crime. Many think that stripping law abiding citizens of their legal right to defend themselves by banning guns. One of the favorite methods of fighting crime among liberals is to throw millions of dollars into social programs but it rarely if ever works.
City officials in Kansas City, Kansas just may have found a very cost efficient method of lowering the city’s crime rate. Several years ago, the city began installing phone prayer booths in some of the inner city areas that had high crime rates. The booths are equipped with a lowering kneeling bar and instructions for anyone passing by. Not long after the prayer booths were installed, crime rates in those areas began to decrease.
Seeing the results, a number of city residents lobbied the Kansas City council to install more prayer booths throughout the rest of the city to help lower crime overall. The council complied and has placed more prayer booths in various locations through Kansas City and they seem to be working. Currently, the city’s prayer booths are being used by 100,000 a week and the city’s crime rate is going down.
Before anyone hollers separation of church and state, let it be known that the booths are being placed on public park grounds under ‘public service monument of arts and counseling to the people of Kansas City.’ Dylan Mortimer, a local artist designed the prayer booths. After their initial installation several years ago, Mortimer has been commissioned to create similar booths for Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, Dubuque, Iowa and other cities.
Secondly, they are not just for Christians, but for anyone from any faith to use. Notices at each prayer booth tells the people that they are nondenominational. The sign also says that the city is not endorsing religion and that they can be used for other purposes as well. Lastly, they ask that when someone is done that they return the kneeling bar back to its upright position.
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