Most Wanted In Kansas City: More Police Recruits Most Wanted In Kansas City: More Police Recruits KCPD Struggles to Fill Open Positions Share this story Published May 12th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Inside a police car on patrol. (Brian Perlman | Flatland) The math behind the tsunami of change hurtling toward the Kansas City Police Department is simple. There’s a lot to do and not enough officers to handle it. Calls for service, including 911 pleas for help from the public, were up 15% during April. Homicides are on track to repeat, if not exceed, the record total of 182 during 2020. The same can be said of drive-by shootings and gunshots that hit someone, but thankfully, don’t take their life.