UMKC students question hiring of former KCPD captain who backed convicted detective ^31.4%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Cassandra Flores - 4/28/2026, 11:37 AM

Negativity Bias 12.9% - Quote-first Misdirection 8.9% - Optimism Bias 8.2%

UMKC students voiced outrage and planned to protest the decision to hire retired Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department (KCPD) Captain Daniel Graves, who backed a former detective convicted in the 2019 killing of a Black man. In 2021, Graves wrote a letter of support for Eric DeValkenaere, a former KCPD detective convicted of killing... more