Kansas City Kansas Police

A major breach of the KCKPD has revealed a list of alleged officer misconduct for the first time, including allegations of sexual harassment, excessive force, false arrests and more. Even still, some accusations of misconduct by known corrupt cops, such as disgraced former detective Roger Golubski, did not make the list.

KCUR and WIRED recently published an investigation about a major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, which revealed a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.

Officer Hunter Simoncic, 26, is the second line-of-duty death in Wyandotte County in a month. A 31-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, vehicular homicide and other allegations, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Families and community leaders celebrated the opening of a new playground at Boston Daniels Park, named for the city’s first Black police chief. Like much of the disinvested neighborhood around it on Quindaro Boulevard, the park had fallen into disrepair in recent decades.

District Attorney Mark Dupree said he saw Golubski’s body, and the “evidence is clear” that the former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective killed himself. Dupree also defended his long-troubled conviction integrity unit, said he believes there may be more cases of innocent men in prison and that he has hired a new director of the unit.

Team Roc, the rapper’s philanthropic effort, along with nine civil rights groups, filed a “friend of the court” brief, supporting a lawsuit filed by five Black women who say they were threatened and stalked by former KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski for years.

Law enforcement officials said the killing of Elijah Ming, 34, was another example in the spate of domestic violence calls and shootings this summer. If convicted, Shawn Harris, 38, faces a life sentence or the death penalty.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation death report, obtained by KCUR through an open records request, reveals a despondent Golubski with an untraceable firearm, preparing to dodge his trial on federal charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual assault.

A federal judge said the women showed no valid legal reason for delaying their claims against disgraced Detective Roger Golubski, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas. The women have said they were too fearful of retaliation until a 2017 exoneration case triggered a flood of reports about police corruption.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation officially concluded suicide was the former detective's cause of death, although it could not say how he obtained a gun. Golubski died the hour his federal trial was set to begin on charges of violating the civil rights of multiple women.

Terra Morehead, who was disbarred by the Kansas Supreme Court in April 2024, was involved in several legal scandals including a high-profile case investigated by former Kansas City, Kansas, Police Detective Roger Golubski.