In dramatic day at City Hall, Kansas City Council OK s more control of police spending Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America/TNS Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas speaks about the importance of infrastructure during a news conference with fellow mayors and members of Congress outside the U.S. Capitol on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Kansas City Council passed two groundbreaking ordinances Thursday that give city leaders more influence over how the state-controlled Kansas City Police Department spends taxpayer funds.
The pair of 9-4 votes, at the end of a dramatic day at City Hall, represent perhaps the most significant exercise of local control over the KCPD since it was returned to state governance in 1939.
In dramatic day at City Hall, Kansas City Council OK s more control of police spending
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â David Colegrove seemed ready to have a happy and fulfilling retirement. After eight years as a St. Louis area police officer and another 22 years as a federal agent in Kansas City, Colegrove had set up his own business. But a few months after retiring as a law enforcement officer in September 2014, he took his own life. I think he carried a tremendous amount of stress and trauma that went unprocessed, Kim Colegrove, Davidâs widow, said. I definitely believe that the eight years in a patrol car did more damage than anything else in his life.
Missouri lawmakers repeal KC police residency, empower prosecutors in innocence cases Jonathan Shorman, Jeanne Kuang, Bryan Lowry, and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
May 13 JEFFERSON CITY Missouri lawmakers on Thursday struck down a rule that Kansas City police officers live in the city, approving a criminal justice overhaul that also bans officers from using chokeholds.
The General Assembly s passage of the measure represents a victory for Kansas City police officers who have unsuccessfully pushed to lift the residency requirement in the past, even as the legislature removed similar rules for St. Louis.
But it marks a blow for Mayor Quinton Lucas and other civic leaders who had urged lawmakers to keep the rule in place. They argued requiring the department s more than 1,300 officers to live in the city they patrol fosters better relationships with residents.
Clergy leaders address concern about racism within Kansas City Police Department Glenn E. Rice and Luke Nozicka, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 27 A group of clergy Tuesday voiced concern about racism within the Kansas City Police Department, but said they believed leaders were committed to eliminating discrimination from the force. Systemic racism can be intentional as much as unintentional, the Rev. Darron Edwards told members of the Board of Police Commissioners.
Edwards, who leads Getting to the Heart of Matter, an effort between clergy and police aimed at reducing violence and fostering better relations, said there are police department policies and procedures that unintentionally cause harm to people and groups, particularly Black and brown people.
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