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Bobby Calvert now leads the mid-Missouri department.

Recruitment, retention and technology priorities for new Chief.

A new crime report for 2024 corrects some misreported crimes from the past year, police Chief Jill Schlude said.

In the span of three months in 2023, Kansas City, Kansas, police shot and killed two men – John Anderton and Amaree’ya Henderson. The Unified Government and KCK police sued to keep the investigations secret.

A Missouri police officer and mother of six children died after losing control of her patrol vehicle and crashing into a tree while chasing someone who fled a traffic stop.

Ferguson police have released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police officer to the ground on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.

In the final installment of The Weight of Evidence, we’ll hear from citizens and city officials about how they feel the December 2023 incident was handled - and what recovery resources are available in Fayette.

In the third installment of The Weight of Evidence, we take a look at Missouri laws around evidence disposal and where the Fayette Police Department may have gone wrong.

In the second installment of The Weight of Evidence, we talk about drug disposal, why it exists and what can happen when it’s not done safely.

In the first installment of The Weight of Evidence, we’ll take a trip to where it all began - a town of 2800 people in North Central Missouri called Fayette.