I thougth KCK was the good part? KCMO is supposed to be the bad part of KC.
There are alot of very nice suburbs on the Kansas side, which have incorporated into their own cities. And alot of poor KCK is ‘white trash’ which isn’t nearly as violent as KCMO’s Detroit like areas. But this particular part of KCK is housing projects and pretty bad.
KCMO is the bigger of the two. The airport is there, the sports teams are there, all the cultural amenities are there. KCK was always blue collar, primarily eastern European. Over time the black and Hispanic population has grown. It's developed a growing gang problem. The area where these two were first spotted by police is a public housing project.
About ten years ago the county and the KCK government consolidated so legally KCK takes up all of Wyandotte county other than a handful of towns that predated the consolidation. There are some very nice parts of town now, out by the Kansas Speedway, and some gentrification going on in the inner city. But there are also still some pretty bad areas.
KCMO has it's own problems east of Troost. They give the rougher parts of KCK a run for their money.
KC has all bad parts?