Mission
KCmorgue is a grassroots archival and educational project focused on the Kansas City Police Department. The position is that public safety comes from community investment, not militarized policing directed by the state of Missouri.
Goals:
- Document instances of police violence, corruption, and misconduct within the KCPD.
- Educate the public about the structure of the Board of Police Commissioners and how this arrangement has produced decades of impunity.
- Advocate for local control of the police department.
What is This Crazy Website?
This project is one manifestation of the position that "The Elections Don't Mean Shit — Vote Where the Power Is — Our Power Is In The Street" — a slogan from Students for a Democratic Society. The "street" in this case includes the web, social media, but also literally the street.
In practice this means:
- Walk your streets. Know your neighbors by name.
- Discuss politics as they affect you as a community.
- Collectively deny corporate and government influence and access to your neighborhood. Build mutual aid, community defense, cooperative economics.
Why This Tone?
The language on this site is raw by design. Politeness has not produced accountability. Restraint has not produced reform. The institutions that kill Black and Brown Kansas Citians with impunity do not respond to respectful requests.
Rolling Stone: "American voters voted for a candidate promising mass deportations, authoritarianism, reactionary anti-feminism, ethno-nationalism, and a mean, vindictive spirit of revenge, grievance, and retribution. Shit is about to get very real, very soon. And, quick history lesson, the Nazi party was voted into power in 1932 largely because of economic discontent. Once in power, parties do what they want to do, not what voters actually voted for."
The Democratic party is fueled by the same donor class and corporate imperatives — wrapped in different cultural packaging. The uniforms change; the product does not.
This project is a way of saying fuck you to the machinery of violence — the cops and their enablers, their class wars and culture wars and proxy wars. They can all suck it.
Solidarity
We stand in solidarity with:
- Palestine, Gaza, and all resistance movements currently fighting Zionist incursions and abuses.
- Apoist and Kurdish groups in their struggle for autonomy.
- Communists, communalists, socialists, anarchists, and antifascists.
- Political prisoners and all kind humans wherever they are and whatever their struggle. We love you.
The fight against police violence in KC is the same fight as the fight against occupation in Palestine, the same fight as the fight against state repression in Rojava, the same fight as every struggle where an armed force protects a ruling class from those it exploits.