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A Kansas City police officer listens to a police commission hearing in 2020 at KCPD headquarters.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed into law a wide-ranging bill that, among other things, limits when and how police can use chokeholds, cancels a requirement that Kansas City police live within city limits, and gives prosecutors the ability to challenge wrongful convictions in the court that handed them down.
The bill,
SB 53, received broad bipartisan support in both chambers of the General Assembly, and has been awaiting the governor’s signature since May.
“It combined both just pure, I guess, pro-police provisions in it, but also had some police reforms that I think were common sense and were actually supported by all the law enforcement community,” said Republican state Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer, who sponsored the bill. “That was very heartening to see that level of bipartisanship.”
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