So what happened Tuesday? It's called being fed up as taxpayers.
This is about corruption, fiscal irresponsibility, and misuse of taxpayers funds.
When we see headlines like this "Kansas City police commanders, lobbyist charge taxpayers for pricey meal and booze at Capital Grille."
We need to use the right word to describe this problem -- it's called theft.
They are stealing from taxpayers' money to fill their pockets,
Being a public servant, is a service to your community.
"SERVICE" not "SERVE Yourself" at taxpayers expense.
We can all join KCPD at the Capital Grille and celebrate.....
on the Taxpayer dime!
Kansas City residents share concerns about the proposed city budget....... here's some more concerns. Look where your tax dollars go. Just at KCPD.
Kansas City police commanders, lobbyist charge taxpayers for pricey meal and booze at Capital Grill. In all, Lewis and Stewart charged about $7,000 last year in meals, gas and other expenses for about 80 days' worth of work between them. They also charged about $5,000 for lodging. In 2009, they charged about $7,600 in meals and expenses and about $6,000 in lodging.
100 New Kansas City police cars sit idle in storage.
The Kansas City Police Department spent at least $2.1 million in the last 13 months to buy more than 100 vehicles that will take months — perhaps years — to fully deploy.
And some Kansas City Council members, still in the midst of their own budget crisis, are angry. Part of that money, they contend, might have helped keep officers on the streets instead of keeping idle cars in a garage for the future. “We know they need cars,” said Councilwoman Deb Hermann. “But we need things at the city, too.”
Police Board Criticizes KCPD Clearance Rate
2010 KCPD HOMICIDE CLEARANCE RATE PLUMMETS TO 41 percent. Kansas City Police Board members said they were disappointed with the low number of cases solved so far this year. — 40 out of 95 homicides. Kansas city is known as the ‘Kansas City Murder Factory’and a Documentary challenges community members.
KCPD Chief: Police issue 100 seat belt tickets on Click It ot Ticket.
HOWEVER !!!!!
Kansas City Police Tangled Over Seat Belts. Video from the patrol car's interior revealed that the officer's head likely knocked against his partner's. Neither officer wore a seatbelt!
Typical KCPD Hypocracy.
Ollie Gates is reportedly upset that KCPD used his restaurant's parking lot near 45th and Paseo as a command post for an Operation 100 on Wednesday, Christine Vendel writes.
Gates also called Mayor Mark Funkhouser and asked him to come to the restaurant to see how officers had clogged up his lot and scared away potential customers. He told Funkhouser the disruption cost him an estimated $3,300.
“Basically, it shut him down for the night,” said Funkhouser, who responded to the scene. “I thought he was right.”
Kansas City Police Officer Accused of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol While On Duty.
Officer Josette Young, a Kansas City Missouri Internal Affairs officer, which occurred with the disturbing note to this accident is that Officer Young was on duty at the time.
A detention officer for the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department has been charged with promoting prostitution.The Jackson County prosecutor charged Jacques A. Baker, 23, with promoting prostitution.
A veteran Kansas City police officer has been suspended without pay after he was charged with getting a teen drunk and sodomizing him.James R. Silke, 52, was charged Friday in Clay County Circuit Court with sexual assault.
A former Kansas City Police Department officer was awarded a judgment of $6.5 million Wednesday in his lawsuit against Kansas City and the Police Department.
Justice Dept. To Probe KCPD Hiring Practices
Having solved all of KC's problems, KCPD Detectives enforces jaywalking ..... I guess two people dying per week is ok, So we'll use detectives to catch jaywalking, and this happened to coincide with the NAACP's national conference in Kansas city.
The E-Tax is Dead folks.
Re: “Woody Cozad, e-tax repealer, loses police lobbying gig”
KCPD is soooooo corrupt, KCPD is worst than Pendergast era