Independence police

Kansas City is pressuring the Mid-America Regional Council to utilize a menu option for 911 callers, rather than route all calls through the Kansas City Police Department. Officials hope to drastically improve the time it takes for KCPD to answer 911 calls.

More than a year after his killing, the family of Tyrea Pryor Sr. has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Independence and two of the officers involved in Pryor’s killing.

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The city of Independence, Missouri, spent $2 million of its ARPA funding on the police department, more than it allocated to any other department or project. The purchases were labeled as “community violence intervention” in its report to the U.S. Treasury.