Control Issues

inside of police car on patrol

Kansas City is once again grappling with whether it should reclaim local control of the police department.

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Kansas City No Violence Alliance Reboots

Kansas City police investigate a homicide in late 2015

As mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Sly James has grown accustomed to phone calls from the police chief about yet another homicide. Sometimes James goes to the scene, and the details of one, from a Sunday morning, are seared into his memory. A wailing mother, still in her nightgown, was kneeling in the middle of…

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