Kansas City police fail to solve most crimes. It s one reason some want more city control Glenn E. Rice, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 1 Civil rights leaders and community activists in Kansas City have pointed to rising violent crime and low arrest rates as one reason they support a plan to give local officials authority over part of the police department budget.
The Kansas City Police Department has not been effective in recent years at lowering the rate of homicides, which hit a record in 2020, several leaders pointed out at a May 25 news conference at City Hall.
In fact, as police department data shows, the KCPD solved only about half of last year s homicides. And clearance rates for other serious crimes were even worse: 20% of rapes, 7% of burglaries and 16% of robberies.
MIdwest Innocence Project
Because of confusion over whether innocence is enough for a non-death penalty conviction to be overturned in Missouri, Kevin Strickland remains incarcerated at a prison in DeKalb County.
Despite being declared innocent by the prosecutor s office that convicted him, Kevin Strickland is still doing time for a triple-murder from decades ago that he was not involved in.
It’s been nearly a month since the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office found that evidence used to prosecute and imprison Kevin Strickland for more than 40 years was flawed, and
“My job is to protect the innocent,” the county’s top prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker, said when she presented the findings at a press conference. “It is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs, and what we did in this case was wrong.”
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