One Struggle KC And MORE2, We Do Not Accept 47 Police Killings in Ten Years and Neighborhood Accountability Boards with Center For Conflict

One Struggle KC And MORE2, We Do Not Accept 47 Police Killings in Ten Years The Kansas City Star recently published a report that the KCMO Police Department had killed 47 civilians in the last 10 years and another 56 have been shot and survived. That makes KCPD one of the deadliest departments in the nation per population and in 2015 KCMO was one of only a handful of cities where all of the victims of police killing were black. In the KC Star article representatives of the KCPD said that the citizens of KCMO supported their actions in these deadly incidents. One Struggle KC and MORE2 came together to hold a rally called KCPD47 to let the KCMO Police Department that be know that the killing must stop and that they do not condone past action. Today we play the audio of that rally. Then host Nancy Leazer talks with Lora McDonald of MORE2 and a representative of One Struggle KC about what they hope to change in the KCPD. Neighborhood Accountability Boards with Center For Conflict Resolution Neighborhood Accountability Boards are one of the tools used by the Center For Conflict Resolution to settle disputes and make victims…