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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appointed Dawn Cramer to a four-year term on the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.
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A group of African American pastors is distancing themselves from departmental leadership over video they say conflicts with police accounts of the killing of Malcolm Johnson.
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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said his two-pronged plan isn’t about defunding the police, but about giving citizens more accountability. Northland city council members were livid, saying they were blindsided by a plan that could lead to an increase in crime.
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The new policy will prohibit officers from using so-called less-lethal weapons to disperse crowds engaging in "First Amendment-protected activities" like public protests.
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A large regional council of the Presbyterian Church called Thursday for the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners to fire embattled Chief Rick Smith.
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After Chief Rick Smith made his report to the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday, City Councilmember Eric Bunch called for the chief’s resignation or firing. “Enough is enough,” Bunch wrote on Twitter.
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State Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove assumes the duties of the chairwoman at a pivotal time for race relations in the state.
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At the monthly Board of Police Commissioners meeting Tuesday, some community members said officers refusing to wear masks is just one way the Kansas City Police Department doesn't care about public safety.
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With police departments under scrutiny for their relationship with Black Americans, Kansas City, Missouri's police force has a dismal diversity record, especially in its investigative units.
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The officer is charged with using excessive force against the teenager, who pleaded ‘I can’t breathe.’
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The co-founder of a new Kansas City organization on why protesters are camped out at city hall, Missouri voters face two big issues on the November ballot, and how listening to an opera a day changed one Kansas Citian.
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A cluster of tents set up along the sidewalk in front of police headquarters downtown were used by protesters who pledged to remain until Chief Rick Smith resigns and the officer who arrested the pregnant woman is fired.