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She took exception to KCPD’s decision to allow one of DeValkenaere’s former supervisors — since-retired Sgt. Richard Sharp, who maintained a close relationship with DeValkenaere — to oversee the investigation. Picerno called such an arrangement “extremely troubling.” He added, “There's an inherent conflict of interest there. It's the main reason why we now have the Missouri State Highway Patrol conduct all the investigations in any kind of an officer-involved incident.”

A former Kansas City police officer has been booked into jail Tuesday after an appeals court upheld his conviction in the deadly shooting of a Black man.

An Excelsior Springs rape and kidnapping investigation has new leads after a potential witness in the case was found

John Picerno said that in his 30 years working in the legal system, he’s never seen a state attorney general

An unusual move by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey surprised many of the people he was appointed

The Family and attorneys of Ralph Yarl, a Kansas City teen shot after ringing the wrong doorbell this spring

The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners on Monday said allegations made by a former police department

Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson spoke Monday about why no hate crime charge was filed against

Ralph Yarl shooting After a Kansas City teenager was shot and injured for going to the door of the wrong house

Holly Dodge, who was general counsel for the Kansas City Police Department, left that job this week. Holly