In less than 10 years, Kansas City has increased the money it gives the police department by $56 million, totaling $284 million this year. But the police department argues it may be entitled to millions more — maybe even hundreds of millions more. “I think they believe that they’re entitled to anything that may go through the coffers or checkbook of the city of Kansas City,” Mayor Quinton Lucas said. “I mean, it’s an astonishing and very sweeping argument.” The police department raises the possibility that it could be owed more money in a counterclaim to lawsuits filed by Lucas and Gwen Grant, the president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. Missouri law currently requires Kansas City to allocate 25% from its general revenue fund to the department. But the police board argues that the city is undercounting its general revenues and thus depriving the police department of funding. The board specifically targeted local economic development incentives, arguing the de...