Outside investigations of police shootings up for negotiation in KCPD union contract
Outside investigations of police shootings up for negotiation in KCPD union contract Glenn E. Rice, The Kansas City Star Feb. 2—On a summer day last year, with protests ongoing at the Country Club Plaza, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker arrived at a scene where a police officer had shot and killed a man. At the protests, which had been going on for two weeks in Kansas City, demonstrators were chanting the names of Black men gunned down by police. Questions about how the police could effectively investigate themselves were burning. And here at 23rd Street and Liste...