The others had been working for the department for fewer than four years by 1992. Shown the documents, KCKPD spokesperson Nancy Chartrand said there are only 12 officers currently at the department who were employed there in 1992, half of them new recruits that year. Until this office does convict several police officers and hopefully gain the cooperation of some of these police officers, the situation in Kansas City, Kansas, will only deteriorate.” “The FBI has never convicted any KCKPD officer of any crime. “The situation did not develop overnight, and it will not be solved overnight,” the memo reads. Attorney’s office in Kansas in responding to FBI discoveries about the department. The news reports marked a rare public disclosure of a federal probe into some aspect of the KCKPD.īut as records obtained from the FOIA request show, the FBI has known corruption within KCKPD “has existed for decades.” And the agency appeared to have been frustrated at times by a lack of resources and inertia from the U.S. He is also accused of protecting drug dealers. Former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski is accused in a civil case of systematically preying on Black women to satisfy his sexual proclivities or to fabricate evidence to clear cases. Nearly 30 years later, the department is making headlines with reports of a federal investigation into alleged corruption. The memo was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI for records of its past investigations into the KCKPD.
18, 1992, by a special agent of the FBI, whose name was redacted, as part of an investigation into corruption within KCKPD that went under the code name “Operation Street Smart.” Those findings were memorialized in a memo dated Dec. “The problem is as bad as it is because of corruption within the police department and general investigative incompetence,” the FBI agent wrote.
And they ignored the crack cocaine epidemic in Wyandotte County. They were alleged to have been dealing illegal drugs and committing robberies. They severely beat people in the city jail. KCKPD officers routinely violated the civil rights of those they were sworn to protect. The FBI agent was unsparing - and pessimistic - in an assessment of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.
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