Peggy Lowe
Investigative ReporterI’m a veteran investigative reporter who came up through newspapers and moved to public media. I want to give people a better understanding of the criminal justice system by focusing on its deeper issues, like institutional racism, the poverty-to-prison pipeline and police accountability. Today this beat is much different from how reporters worked it in the past. I’m telling stories about people who are building significant civil rights movements and redefining public safety.
Email me at lowep@kcur.org.
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Kansas City, Kansas, police open museum even as news surfaces of federal probe into former detectiveCNN is reporting, and Kansas City, Kansas, officials confirm, that federal prosecutors are investigating now-retired KCK police detective Roger Golubski. He partnered with the one-time police chief behind the museum effort. -
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said the city was weighing its options, including appealing the ruling.
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The report says 978 children went missing from foster care in the state in 2019.
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Two business groups made recommendations, including independent investigations of excessive force cases. Police Chief Rick Smith had no comment but complained that his staffing levels will soon be the lowest in 25 years.
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Federal authorities said Monday that the fire at the Harlem Baptist Church was “intentionally set” but they don’t believe it was a hate crime.
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Gwen Grant's lawsuit says the board violated the rights of taxpayers under the Hancock Amendment, the citizens’ initiative that limits state revenues and local taxes.
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Dawn Cramer, who was appointed to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Aug. 26, falsely claimed that she had “completed a high-level PhD program” at a university.
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If Mayor Quinton Lucas' police reform plan is implemented, the Kansas City Police Department could run out of money by the end of the year and be forced to lay off 1,000 people, the department’s budget manager testified Wednesday.
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Some legislators are pushing back, saying the millions in federal funds should help people with rent, hunger assistance and other problems brought on by the pandemic. A leader of a tenants' rights group called the move “out-of-touch.”
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Narene Stokes, who lost her son to a shooting by a Kansas City police officer eight years ago, and Sheila Albers, whose son was killed three years ago by an Overland Park police officer, say “this can happen to anyone.”
