Kansas City officials working to prevent business burglaries [Video]

After a series of burglaries along Southwest Boulevard on both the Missouri and Kansas sides of the state line, investigators are looking for suspects while leaders are pursuing solutions.One of the restaurants burglarized over the weekend was La Bodega.Jodi Cacioppo was a lunch guest there Monday with her son, Trevor, and his girlfriend, Chloe.“I don’t think it’s a good thing for our upcoming Super Bowl. And we have the soccer people coming in 2026 and that’s going to be good. I just bought a house in Westport, and I even had people steal my pillows on my porch, and I get very mad about that,” she said.Another lunch guest who showed support at La Bodega on Monday was Councilman Crispin Rea. The restaurant is in his district.“We approved … $23 million, which is a 30% increase of last year’s budget, for police funding to hire 150 new officers and to …