Subject: Police

• Kline's Office Goes On Trial

  September 12, 2007

• GED Cops

  January 18, 2008

• Columbia police chief wants Jayhawks arrested

  Crime Scene KC is right. This mock press release from interim Columbia Chief of Police Tom Dresner is a pretty great follow up to his hometown Missouri Tigers falling to the Kansas Jayhawks. Dresner wrote the note to Lawrence Chief of Police W. Ronald Olin, saying he was issuing warrants for first-degree robbery against the entire Jayhawk football team. "Not since the horrendous 'Fifth Down' robbery committed against us by the Colorado Buffalos on October 6, 1990 have the citizens of our fair ci

  December 1, 2008

• Kansas City Strip

  August 24, 2000

• Best Law-Abiding Athlete

  October 19, 2000

• Shon Pernice's lawyer vindicates Ethiopian cab driver accused of rape

  Attorney Kevin Baldwin (pictured) may act like an asshat -- as David Martin wrote earlier this week in his look at how Baldwin has handled the press while representing Shone Pernice, husband of missing white woman Renee Pernice -- but he's also a winner. Baldwin didn't have time to talk to Martin about the Pernice case. Guess he was busy defending an Ethiopian cab driver accused of raping a woman. Baldwin's office sent out a press release yesterday celebrating the not-guilty verdict that his cli

  January 16, 2009

• Say Cheese

  May 30, 2002

• Budget cuts will lead to mass layoffs, KCPD warns

  Here in the Killa City, we got news this week of how the $12 million in cuts proposed in City Manager Wayne Cauthen's budget would affect the Kansas City Police Department. The police say they'd have to give 225 police officers pink slips. Kinda scary when the city had more murders last year than the Royals had wins and the daily paper runs a three-part series called "Murder Factory." I called up police commissioners Karl Zobrist and Terry Brady to find out how realistic the projections were. I

  January 29, 2009

• KCPD considering collective bargaining

  Kansas City Police Department Captain Rich Lockhart confirms that, in March, officers will cast secret ballots to determine whether the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #99, will become the department's union representation.Lockhart says the FOP has been pushing the department to become unionized for years, but only recently got traction when a Missouri Supreme Court decision overturned a previous ruling that had barred Missouri schoolteachers, firefighters and police from unionizing.As a union,

  February 2, 2009

• Was this an appropritate use of force?

  KSHB captured some disturbing video following a high-speed chase yesterday. The footage, shot from KSHB's Skytracker helicopter, shows a man surrendering, lying face down on the ground with his hands behind his head. An officer seems to have him subdued when another runs up and repeatedly punches the guy in the head. Other officers swarm the guy. An officer by the guy's legs elbows and punches him. DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"449177",bannerAdObjectID:"5",videoAdObjectID:"4",videoAdConD

  February 17, 2009

• Copfest 2009! National Fusion Center Conference mobs downtown Marriott

  Did you know that there's an office at 635 Woodland that collects reports from local police departments about suspicious activities in the metro area and analyzes them for terrorist threats? And that "suspicious activities" can include taking pictures of questionable aesthetic value, lurking around potential terrorist targets like power plants and oil refineries, or looking up subversive stuff on the 'net? Amateur photographers who like staging photo shoots in the West Bottoms, you might wan

  March 11, 2009

• Net Prophet

  November 23, 2006

• KCPD cuts gay members' health insurance benefits

  Kansas City Police Chief Jim CorwinLast Thursday afternoon, members of the Kansas City Police Department received an e-mail with the subject line: "Police Budget Update." The "Extra Daily Informant" explained how the department is going to make ends meet with a $15 million cut to the budget that begins May 1. Chief Jim Corwin, the memo noted, had tapped a 12-person task force earlier in the day to study the numbers and make recommendations to the full Board of Police Commissions later this mon

  April 14, 2009

• Pride and Glory

  October 23, 2008

• The five-oh in KCMO needs help recruiting, so maybe it's time to break out the keys to the impounds

  May 22, 2008

• Frank Hayde Booksigning

  February 28, 2008

• Murder Case Is Killed Again

  KCPD says its officer bungled a murder case, but a disappearing witness sunk the trial.

  February 7, 2008

• Liberian Connection

  December 13, 2007

• The wealthy, backbiting, litigious, renegade-cop-hiring residents of Lake Lotawana keep things churning

  May 21, 2009

• letters from the week of June 21

  June 21, 2007

• Good Dog, Rocky

  June 7, 2007

• The Cop Who Killed a Murder Case

  Officer Holmes says a supervisor made him lie. But KCPD brass say he bungled a murder investigation.

  March 22, 2007

• Cruiser Control

  March 1, 2007

• Zip It, Pal

  July 13, 2006

• Spilled Blood

  This cop wants to clean up your crime scene — just ignore those spots on her own record.

  February 2, 2006

• Busted

  November 10, 2005

• The Hood

  A black couple in Independence wonders about the price of peace and quiet.

  July 21, 2005

• Buzzkill!

  As auditors try to figure out how Jackson County spends its anti-drug money, perhaps an investigator should ask a kid..

  September 2, 2004

• The Girl in the Bathroom

  A Ruskin High School freshman accused a football player of forcing her to give him a blow job. Then life really started sucking.

  June 3, 2004

• Show of Force

  Some KCPD officers are unhappy that Chief Easley cleared 'the gang of eight.'

  February 26, 2004

• Horror Story

  October 30, 2003

• Where Is the Love?

  Turns out the summer’s big-news prostitution sting wasn’t half as sexy as reported.

  September 18, 2003

• Minority Report

  The hate crimes task force ends up with a low profile.

  December 26, 2002

• Officers Unfriendly

  The Johnson County Sheriff's Department lets its own offenders enforce the law.

  December 19, 2002

• Jacking Around

  Lawsuits and investigations reveal a troubled Lone Jack police department.

  February 7, 2002

• All Alone in Lone Jack

  December 6, 2001

• Police Bruiser

  A slap-happy bondsman gets called to court.

  September 20, 2001

• Mumia Abu-Jamal

  One Seventy-Five Progress Drive (Alternative Tentacles)

  August 9, 2001

• Jailhouse Knock

  Wyandotte jailer angered many coworkers.

  July 26, 2001

• Chain Reactions

  Linda Rupard declared war on Johnson County law enforcers, and they fought back.

  January 11, 2001

• Cruise Control

  Sheriff Leroy Green finds out that the Unified Government isn't so unified.

  November 2, 2000

• Saturday Night Special

  Westport on Saturday night is where the cops try to keep a lid on the party.

  August 17, 2000

• Breach of the peace

  Mike McCormack and Sarah Viets practiced their American right of peaceful protest -- and got arrested.

  June 22, 2000

• Urban Cowboy

  Can a high school dropout with no law enforcement training run for Jackson County Sheriff? County officials say no.

  June 8, 2000

• Loop Road remains a place of controversy

  Last month a bystander was shot and killed at Swope Park, resurrecting the debate over safety at the Loop.

  May 4, 2000

• KCTV-5 gets justice for a jerk

  Ash-har QuraishiKCTV promised police brutality last night and delivered a knee to the throat. KCTV-5's annual police brutality story aired last night with Jedi investigator Ash-har Quraishi bringing us the story of Tim Gilio, who was driving home from his girlfriend's house when he saw cherries. With prior arrests for marijuana possession, DWI and resisting arrest, he knew the drill. He also had six warrants out for his arrest. But Gilio's arrest took a nasty turn when Lee's Summit police offic

  May 12, 2009

• This is the father and son tag team that (allegedly) knocked out a cop

  Scott M. Wyckoff​Mark T. Wyckoff​Scott and Mark Wyckoff allegedly played Fritz and David Von Erich against a couple of police officers in the Power & Light District last week. Jackson County prosecutors charged 21-year-old Scott Wyckoff with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and 46-year-old Mark Wyckoff with felony interference for shoving a police officer who was trying to pull the younger Wyckoff off an unconscious cop that Wyckoff was going Dan Henderson on. Court reco

  August 11, 2009

• KC Police Chief updates condition of officer injured in scuffle

  Chief Jim Corwin​On his blog today, Kansas City Police Chief Jim Corwin updated the status of the police officer who was knocked out in a scuffle in the Power & Light District Sunday night. The officer, a 14-year veteran of the force, "suffered a traumatic head injury" but "his condition was upgraded and he was taken out of intensive care" Tuesday night, Corwin wrote."All of us here at KCPD also are praying for the recovery of this officer," Corwin wrote. Court records say the officer was

  August 12, 2009

• Threatening to arrest your date won't win her heart

  ​Aaron Lee Walton has a lot to learn about love. Walton, 33, allegedly told a date that he was an undercover police officer and threatened to arrest his date if she didn't go to his house. Smooth. Can't imagine why that one didn't work. The Johnson County District Attorney charged Walton today with battery and false impersonation of a law enforcement officer. That's get you on Don't Date Him Girl.

  September 2, 2009

• Roethlisberger to KCPD: I got your dog right here

  From some cop's MySpace page.​Yesterday, Kansas City Police Chief James Corwin announced a $8,000 grant from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's foundation to buy a new vicious, snarling, face-biting member of the police force police dog.On his blog, Corwin wrote that the new K-9 should be on duty by the end of the year -- just in time to cause would-be holiday burglars criminals to shit themselves, or sniff your car after you decline to be searched (that never works). The new

  November 18, 2009