5 questions with UMKC professor Novak: KC's gun violence has an economic 'ripple effect'

Ken Novak, a professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, studies and teaches crime prevention strategies. Last January, Novak embarked on an usual project: As the months flew by, he meticulously tracked each homicide in Kansas City, scribbling the name, date and location of each victim on a color-coded Post-it.