Deandre Hicks News Today

An emphasis was placed on diversity, equity and inclusion with Momentum 2027, so that Topeka residents from all over the city can steer the plan.

Chris Frazier used to dislike the police. Growing up, the French Middle School eighth-grader had been deeply influenced by accounts of police brutality and discrimination he had seen on TV. But then he started talking with the Topeka Police Department school resource officer stationed at his school, and over time, he got to know the officer more deeply as a person, rather than some abstract figure and symbol of oppression. Frazier began to see the police, but particularly those who work in sch...