Kansas City Defund Police Part Deux Preview

Here's the upshot that local newsies are afraid to report . . .

KANSAS CITY ACTIVISTS AREN'T LIKELY TO WIN MANY MISSOURI VOTES AGAINST POLICE FUNDING LEGISLATION!!!

That's not rocket science but it's something that locals keep denying.

In the meantime, Mayor Q and many of his allies on council are talking up a new lawsuit after LOSING their last effort . . .

Two sides are preparing for a statewide vote in November on a constitutional amendment that would give the Republican-majority Legislature even more authority to set police funding.

A key legislative backer says Kansas City police need the support because some Democrats want to defund the force — a charge city leaders vehemently deny.

A local civil rights leader sued on behalf of city taxpayers, arguing that allowing the state to control the city’s police force amounts to “taxation without representation” and discriminates against Kansas City's large Black population, which experiences much of its violent crime.

Mayor Quinton Lucas, who is the only person on the Board of Police Commissioners not appointed by the governor, has indicated the proposal will be challenged in court.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City Struggles With Missouri Over Police Funding

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Leaders in largely Democratic Kansas City, Missouri, don't control the city's police department, hire the police chief or determine how the department spends its tax dollars. A 1930s-era law gives that power to a five-member board largely appointed by the Missouri governor, who since 2017 has been a Republican.

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