COLUMBIA — Downtown was out of control after the final Missouri-Kansas basketball game March 6. The bars were packed, many revelers were drunk, and police had their hands full with fights. Even a hot dog vendor took a punch as a drunken patron stumbled onto the sidewalk outside of Quinton’s Bar & Deli on Ninth Street.
Downtown Columbia becomes safer with 'problem-oriented policing,' police say
Friday, April 16, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CDT;
updated 9:53 a.m. CDT, Friday, April 16, 2010
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