Complaints against police conduct

An analysis by The Star of more than 3,000 documented complaints against KCPD officers over the past 10 years shows three of the city’s five patrol divisions — Metro, Central, and East — produced nearly 80 percent of police misconduct claims. Those are the same patrol divisions where most of the city’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are found, and where the majority of the city’s shootings are reported.

Correction: An earlier version of this chart of police complaint data with percentages did not add up to 100. The percentages were corrected to reflect that some residents were counted as both Hispanic and white.
Chart: Humera Lodhi and Neil Nakahodo | Report for America, The Kansas City Star Source: Office of Community Complaints Get the data