Kansas City Star Offers Scathing Rebuke Of Former Chief Smith

The punchline . . . 

His nomination might be complete fiction like most of the newspaper coverage of his tenure. 

Check-it . . .  

"We’ve long held that Smith’s leadership style allowed beat cops to behave in a discriminatory and abusive fashion. To be blunt: Rogue cops flourished in Kansas City during Smith’s tenure — there’s no sugarcoating that . . . Smith was chief here for five years. Nothing we saw during that time suggests he is a fair arbiter of the law. Under his watch, multiple unarmed Black men were fatally shot by police who remained on the force."

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