# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnj4517toC1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18810858-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-01-18T15:00:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

New Kansas City police chief Stacey Graves says she wants to be a change agent.

KCPD has been under relentless criticism for racial discrimination, police use of force, the killings of Black men by police, the city’s soaring homicide rate and a lack of transparency. 

Even as Graves works to improve community relations, some groups remain skeptical that anything will change. They say the process to select the new chief was indicative of how the department runs: with little community input or transparency.

“Talk is cheap. We need substantive change,” said Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City.

Read the full story at the link in our bio. #KansasCity #LocalNews #Policing #KCMO #KCPD

📸 Edit: Photo by Nick Wagner/The Star

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kcpd, localnews, policing, kcmo, kansascity

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