Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, asking the courts to halt the enforcement of a new state law that will require Kansas City to spend more on its police force. The law, passed by a GOP-controlled legislature earlier this year, requires the city to spend 25% of its general revenue on the KCPD. When state lawmakers passed the bill, they acknowledged that it violated the state constitution. A 1980 provision in the constitution called the Hancock Amendment prohibits state lawmakers from requiring cities to increase funding above existing levels unless the state government provides additional money. Because of this provision, lawmakers simultaneously passed a measure that asks voters to approve an amendment to the constitution that would allow the law to take effect. Voters will decide on that amendment on Nov. 8. The ballot measure known as Amendment 4 would give lawmakers the power for the next three years to increase the m...