KCPD Chief Finalists Named: Deputy Chief Stacey Graves Front Runner Amid Activist Outcry

Today's news is encouraging but we'd like a take from readers . . . Given that it's very likely that Deputy Chief Graves will be the next Chief.

Deputy Chief Graves has an EXCELLENT reputation and worked in media for a number of years . . . Which will be helpful confronting the seething hatred that her critics have already expressed . . . Here's more . . .

A year after the board negotiated embattled Chief Rick Smith’s exit, it announced that it had narrowed the candidates to Kansas City Police Acting Deputy Chief Stacey Graves, Inspector DeShawn Beaufort of the Philadelphia Police Department and retired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Ebner of the New Jersey State Police.

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