As a result of Governor Laura Kelly’s Executive Order 20-07, K-12 schools in the state closed for the remainder of the school year in an effort to prevent the spread […]
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Summer Activity Camps Available in Wichita; Sign Up Now
Summer activity camps from Wichita Park and Recreation Dept. are available for children ages 6-12, and will run Mondays through Fridays for five weeks, from June 29 to July 31. […]
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What’s Wrong With the Wichita Police Department and Justice System?
If you start with the premise that nobody’s perfect, then there’s room for improvement in the Wichita Police Department. However, If you start with a record of 48 shooting deaths […]
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Protest and Demands From Activists Bring Change to KCPD
Like African-American communities across the country, Kansas City’s Black community has a love-hate relationship with their police department. In general, community members are pleased by the role the department plays […]
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Protesters and Legal Observers: Know Your Rights
Proactive civil unrest can be an effective way to induce change, but it can be dangerous too. While you might think that anything goes during a protest, the truth is […]
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Why is it so Hard to Hold Police Accountable?
According to data compiled at the Bowling Green State University Criminal Justice Program, each year in the United States, somewhere between 900 and 1,000 people are shot and killed by […]
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Training Police to Step In and Prevent another George Floyd
George Floyd did not die in an instant. He suffocated to a slow death, pleading “I can’t breathe,” as a Minneapolis police officer pinned his knee to Floyd’s neck for […]
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The City That Remade Its Police Department
Across the U.S., protesters have taken to the streets to express rage after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin. The demonstrations themselves have led […]
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To Stop Police Brutality, Make It Financially Unsustainable
The cost of police brutality is enormous. First and foremost, of course, it is paid in lives: According to the Washington Post database, U.S. police have shot and killed 1,042 […]
