Police

“My son was bleeding like a slaughtered pig,” the man’s mom said about the beating.

The police union in the city voted on a no-confidence measure last week.

Independence is revisiting its policies after discovering that a police officer made close to $170,000 in overtime pay in 2021, making him the highest paid city employee that year.

The officers were approaching a car believed to be connected to a homicide when at least one person inside opened fire.

The officers say they work for less than other area cops to patrol streets that are more dangerous.

DeValkenaere is the first Kansas City law enforcement officer to be convicted for the fatal shooting of a Black man. Following the conviction, the department suspended DeValkenaere without pay.

The officer approached what he believed to be a stolen vehicle when the suspect began shooting.

The museum is marking the anniversary with a display of MP uniforms over the years and other artifacts.

The Metro East village of nearly 15,000 has grown much more diverse in the past decade, with nonwhite residents now accounting for 35% of the population.

The deaths of Don Ray Clark and Nicholas Gilbert at the hands of police are eerily similar to the highly publicized killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. St. Louis officers faced no consequences, but the City of St. Louis is trying to change how we hold police to account.