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Protest groups and social activists in Kansas City are facing a suite of challenges as public attention shifts away from issues of police and criminal justice reform, which mobilized so many during 2020.

Police brutality and protests garnered the attention and sympathy of white Kansas Citians, but 2020 has not brought the systemic change activists say are needed to improve race relations in the metro.

"We may not know the full impact right now, but we're going to see it in five years," says Topeka Police Chief Bill Cochran.

The Topeka Police Department is part of new program teaching peer intervention, and an explanation of the legal policy of qualified immunity.

The city's latest attempt to reduce violent crime rests on four pillars: prevention, intervention, law enforcement and community, and administrative reform.

Teaching mindfulness to first responders could produce a better decision process in high-stress situations.

Teaching mindfulness to police, firefighters and EMTs could help decision making and librarians give their book recommendations as we face a coronavirus winter.

"Citizens are being pushed out of public participation... via these low quality interactions with police departments," Professor Brandon Davis says.

Jay Ashcroft is overseeing elections and running for reelection, a new app aims to help students stay on-task and a KU researcher says traumatic interactions with police make you less likely to vote.

Stacy Shaw began to lead Black Lives Matter protests in Kansas City following the killing of George Floyd.

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.

A conversation with Kansas City's mayor about police reform and leadership, and the city budget. Plus, is it fair that universities are blaming their students for the spread of the coronavirus on campus?