KANSAS CITY, Kan. — More than 100 people braved the cold Thursday to urge the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a pattern-or-practice investigation of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.
At a rally in front of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, civil rights lawyers, residents and activists from other states said broad DOJ intervention is required in KCK, which they described as being plagued by police misconduct for decades. They painted former detective Roger Golubski, who is under federal indictment, as the face of deeper corruption within the police force.
“Roger Golubski did not exist in a vacuum,” said local attorney Cheryl Pilate, who successfully sued Golubski on behalf of a wrongly convicted man. “He was part of the system — a system that was supposed to protect citizens from abuse, but did not.”
