Several Kansas City community leaders are calling for residents to have a meaningful role in selecting the city’s next police chief, weeks after Stacey Graves announced plans to retire next year.
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners released few details about the search for Graves’ successor during its monthly meeting Tuesday.
But Sheryl Ferguson, founder of the Kansas City advocacy group It’s Time 4 Justice, said the board should hold a series of listening sessions across the city before deciding what it wants in a new police chief…