Kansas City grappled with shootings since long before Super Bowl

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Across the country, Americans were shocked and horrified by the images Wednesday from Kansas City, Missouri, after shots were fired into a crowd of jubilant paradegoers celebrating the city’s Super Bowl win. To people intimately aware of the entrenched violence in Kansas City, the shooting was painfully familiar. There were 182 people killed in Kansas City last year, according to police data, surpassing a previous high in 2020. With a population of just over 500,000, Kansas City has one of the highest murder rates in the...