Kansas City Missouri Police

It is not just homicides that are vexing Kansas City police. Non-fatal shootings are up 26% year-to-year, according to KCPD data. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says casework is filed in only 19% of those attacks. She calls that "a pathetically small number."

The We Back Blue marchers took to the sidewalk around noon, walking behind an ATV adorned with flags and signs that led them on the mile-long course to police headquarters.

In response to a recent editorial in The Kansas City Star U.S. Attorney disputes claims that Operation LeGend's success has been overstated.

A conversation with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas about police reform, police Chief Rick Smith and the city budget.

9ine Ultra Lounge made headlines earlier this year when two people were shot and killed and 15 others injured outside the nightclub near U.S. 40 and Noland Road.

Although "I can't breathe" has become a rallying cry of outrage about police brutality since the killing of George Floyd in May, the Kansas City 15-year-old used the same words in a November 2019 incident.

The proposal would have asked voters whether they want to start the process of bringing KCPD under local control for the first time since the 1930s.

Operation Legend becomes news around the world as civil rights organizations accuse Mayor Lucas of allowing “undue civilian terror.”

The Kansas City Police Athletic League uses sports to foster improved relationships with minority communities during a time of growing criticism and scrutiny.

Protesters formed a circle around the intersection where Akinmoladun and others continued making speeches and leading chants directed at police, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith, politicians and others.

The two officers were indicted in May on misdemeanor charges in the beating of Breona “Briya” Hill, but a grand jury upped the charges to felonies after two law enforcement trainers said the officers’ actions weren’t justified.

Family members of men killed by Kansas City police united today in a push for support and answers.