criminal justice reform

A ban on chokeholds, expanded police background checks and higher pay for most county sheriffs are in the bi-partisan, compromise bill.

In addition to threatening criminal penalties for blocking streets, the GOP-led bill would lower the gun conceal and carry age to 18, ban police chokeholds, and criminalize officers having sex with detainees.

The Overland Park Police Department has provided severance for two officers , including one who shot and killed a teenager.

Two bills could reduce prison and probation sentences for many low-level drug crimes, like possession and intent to distribute small amounts.

A city councilmember said Prairie Village is in a “unique and necessary position" to address marijuana decriminalization, with medical marijuana legal in Missouri.

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.

Activists calling for Lucas to defund the Kansas City Police Department say calling the changes 'radical' feels like ‘a slap in the face.’

Mayor Quinton Lucas says the consequences of failing to pay parking tickets has “criminalized entire communities.”

Incumbent Mark Dupree faces prosecutor Kristiane Bryant in the Kansas primary Aug. 4. The winner will run the District Attorney’s office for the next four years, since no Republican has filed in this race.

Black people in Kansas City are more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges. City officials say removing marijuana possession as a city violation is a step forward for racial justice.

A move to leave the Wyandotte County district attorney off a newly-formed task force on police and community relations left many in Kansas City, Kansas, scratching their heads.

Details on recent demands for reform of the Kansas City Police Department, and the stories of some of the men killed by Kansas City police and honored recently by protesters.