‘What the hell are we doing here?’: Kansas City police already maxed out lawsuit fund • Missouri Independent

‘What the hell are we doing here?’: Kansas City police already maxed out lawsuit fund • Missouri Independent

A Kansas City police van sits outside a patrol station on Linwood Boulevard (Allison Kite/Missouri Independent).At the end of February, during a public budget hearing, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas asked the police department whether it had requested enough money to manage lawsuit expenses. Maj. Josh Heinen, from the Kansas City Police Department fiscal division, responded that the $3.5 million the department budgeted for legal settlements was…