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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has introduced two pieces of legislation to increase accountability for the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD), to enhance police-community relations, and to make Kansas City safer.
Co-sponsors include Third District at-Large Councilmember Brandon Ellington, Third District Councilmember Melissa Robinson, Fourth District at-Large Councilmember Katheryn Shields, Fourth District Councilmember Eric Bunch, Fifth District at-Large Councilmember Lee Barnes, Jr., Fifth District Councilmember Ryana Parks-Shaw, Sixth District at-Large Councilmember Andrea Bough, and Sixth District Councilmember Kevin McManus.
“Since the 1980s, when I was born, there have been 4,467 murders in Kansas City nearly double the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in 2001,” Lucas said. “Every single life we’ve lost to violent crime is a life lost too soon and it was preventable. Doing the same thing we’ve been doing for generations blank checks to the
Updated: 3:25 PM CDT May 20, 2021 KMBC 9 News Staff Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday two pieces of legislation that he says will “vastly increase accountability for the Kansas City Police Department, enhance police-community relations, and make Kansas City safer.”According to Lucas, the ordinances would amend the Kansas City FY 21-22 budget to fund the Kansas City Police Department to the 20% minimum of Kansas City’s general revenue as compelled by the Missouri Legislature.Lucas said the ordinances would reallocate the remainder of the previously-allocated KCPD budget to a new Community Services and Prevention Fund, and he directs the city manager to “enter into a contract with the Board of Police Commissioners to provide certain community engagement, outreach, prevention, intervention, and other public services, including as necessary providing for an additional recruiting class to facilitate the provision of community services.”T
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