Kansas City, Kansas, empowered police to exploit and humiliate Black community, lawsuit says

In an explosive new federal lawsuit, five women say the Unified Government knowingly allowed "dirty cops" to sexually exploit them, among numerous other crimes. The lawsuit names disgraced former detective Roger Golubski, who is already facing federal charges, as well as a former police chief who now serves as the U.S. Marshal in Kansas.
Five Black women have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, alleging that officials permitted an “open and notorious police protection racket” to victimize the Black community while detectives committed “regular acts of humiliation and exploitation."

Filed late Friday, the 138-page suit names four former Kansas City, Kansas, Police chiefs and three detectives — including disgraced former detective Roger Golubski, who already faces two federal criminal cases accusing him of sexual assault and protecting a sex trafficking ring of underage girls.

According to the lawsuit, from before 1992 through 2006 the Unified Government knowingly permitted Golubski and others “to kidnap, coerce, pressure, sexually assault, and rape Black women in violation of clearly established constitutional rights." The alleged crimes also included selling drugs, gambling, sex trafficking, prostitution and trafficking stolen goods.