When Kenya Bussey recently heard about Kansas City police urging domestic violence victims to speak up, she thought of all the times, all the years, she had done that.
The time that she filed for an order of protection for her and her children. Or when she reported that her ex-boyfriend had beaten her while she was pregnant, and she curled up in a ball on her front porch. And the times she said she begged officers in vain for help, fearing what Derek C. Jones, her ex-boyfriend, might do.
“I was basically on the phone with the police almost every day, crying for my life — I didn’t feel safe,” Bussey, 26, told The Star. “I was trying to warn absolutely everybody. … I literally cried and begged and I thought, ‘He’s going to hurt somebody.’ ”…