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A group protested outside the Kansas City, Kansas City Hall Monday, alleging police misconduct. The protestors called for the Justice Department to investigate.
A former police chaplain and activists responded to the news that the FBI is investigating allegations of former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski's alleged misconduct.
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Karl Oakman serves as deputy police chief at Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, where he worked for nearly 30 years. He begins his job at the KCKPD in June.
Community leaders hope Oakman can bring accountability and dramatic reform to a department marked in recent years by accusations of corruption and abuse.
Unified Government of Wyandotte County officials named Karl Oakman as the new police chief for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department on Friday.
Oakman crosses the state line from the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, where he served as deputy chief since 2017. He was with the department for nearly thirty years.
New police chief named for Kansas City, Kansas: Karl Oakman, deputy chief at KCPD Glenn E. Rice and Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
May 7 Unified Government of Wyandotte County officials on Friday named Karl Oakman as the next police chief for Kansas City, Kansas.
Oakman, 51, a deputy chief across the state line in the Kansas City Police Department, was one of four finalists vying for the job. The other finalists were Kansas City, Kansas, Police Deputy Chief Pamela Waldeck; Vince E. Davenport, an associate deputy director for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Rich Austin, who is chief of the Milton Police Department in Georgia.