For months, Black leaders urged Kansas City police to provide public reports on how many people were reported missing in the city and how many cases were resolved. Such information, it was argued, would help answer community members’ questions about how many Black people were going missing and what was being done to find them. Now, after the Kansas City Police Department relaunched its missing persons squad last month, it has begun producing those reports. And the data shows what many Black leaders had feared and suspected: Black adults and children have been reported missing in Kansas City in significantly greater numbers than other racial groups. And their cases remain unsolved more often. In its May 10 analysis, the police department reported that Black adults accounted for 11 of the 15 active adult missing persons cases. Black children represent almost half of the 45 active missing cases in Kansas City, according to police statistics, in a city that is about 24% Black. Read m...