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Blue city, red state battle: Kansas City feuds over ‘colonial’ police system

Democratic city does not control its police force – and reform attempts have been thwarted by Republicans Quinton Lucas said he thinks his city’s police department “is a colonial system”. “I think it is anti-Black. I…

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The GuardianApr 12, 2026, 12:00 PM

Blue city, red state battle: Kansas City feuds over ‘colonial’ police system

Democratic city does not control its police force – and reform attempts have been thwarted by Republicans Quinton Lucas said he thinks his city’s police department “is a colonial system”. “I think it is anti-Black. I think it is anti-immigrant. I think it is anti-almost everything we stand for in terms of making sure that diverse populations in major cities have a voice in terms of navigating it,” the Kansas City mayor said. Continue reading...

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