Corruption Uncovered

For the first time ever, the Kansas City, Kansas police corruption scandal was examined on stage at the 2025 United Justice Coalition Summit on May 30th. In this powerful bonus episode, hear legal experts, advocates, and law enforcement voices unpack how decades of abuse were allowed to persist—and what accountability could look like. Recorded live during the UJC Summit's Corruption Uncovered pane...

For the first time ever, the survivors of Roger Golubski's KCK police corruption scandal took the stage together at the 2025 United Justice Coalition Summit on May 30th. In this powerful bonus episode, hear the unfiltered voices of mothers, sisters, and daughters who have spent decades fighting for answers—and for justice. Recorded live during the UJC Summit's Corruption Uncovered panel, these wom...

The United Justice Coalition and Roc Nation are returning to New York City for the third UJC Summit, featuring Panel Discussions, Spotlight Conversations, Networking Opportunities, Local and National Charitable Organizations, and more! Convening leaders, advocates, and experts, the 2025 Summit will focus on identifying viable solutions to challenges within our criminal legal system and provide opp...

Barry Scheck is no stranger to long fights for justice. As the co-founder and Special Counsel at the Innocence Project, he played a key role in exposing police corruption in KCK and bringing Roc Nation and the United Justice Coalition into the fight. In this bonus episode, he reflects on the progress made and the battles ahead. Plus, major updates from KCK: new revelations about Roger Golubski's d...

Roger Golubski will never face trial. But accountability and systemic change in KCK are still possible. In episode 8, we examine what justice might look like, and what you can do to help make it a reality. We hear from Tamika Mallory, and Mysonne Linen, two of the founding members of Until Freedom. We also hear from Carmen Perez Jordan, who runs The Gathering for Justice, an organization founded b...

Davilyn Dobbs, a mother of three sons, reveals how her life took a dark turn after working at the Sheriff's Department and hearing whispers of police corruption. Initially dismissing the rumors, everything changed when Detective Roger Golubski made an unthinkable proposition: sleep with him to protect her children. What followed was a chilling pattern of retaliation after Davilyn rejected his adva...

For decades, the KCKPD has been mired in allegations of corruption—spanning drug dealing, burglary, and more. In the 1990s, a police chaplain bravely spoke out but was ignored. When silence became complicity, he walked away and joined MORE2, choosing integrity over acceptance. Decades later, his fight for justice remains unwavering. In episode 6 of Corruption Uncovered, we explore the courage of o...

Doniel Quinn was funny, and kind, and turning his life around. Until his gruesome 1994 murder, one that Roger Golubski allegedly pinned on the wrong man. His true killer was never charged, and the tragic impacts of Doniel's death have extended for generations.  In this episode, Doniel's mother Saundra Newsom remembers her son, and shares her quest for justice. And we talk to attorney Cheryl Pilate...

Dorothy Cooper's daughter Starr was only one when her mother went missing. Now, Starr is searching for answers from a police department that's known for dismissing the cases of missing and murdered Black women, and treating their families with indifference. This episode features conversations with Starr Cooper, Michelle McCormick, the Executive Director of the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and D...

Violet Martin is still rebuilding from the things that happened to her family in 1997, when her brother and cousin were sentenced to 25 years to life for a crime they did not commit. They say KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski set them up for murder. In this episode, we sit with Violet Martin, and hear from Lora McDonald, Executive Director of MORE2, about how the harm from Roger Golubski's actions is...

The scope and scale of what Roger Golubski is accused of doing is horrifying – and many in Kansas City, Kansas say it was an open secret.   In this episode, we unpack what Golubki's acts did to people, men and women in KCK, and we begin to explore the culture of the KCKPD - with veteran public radio journalist, Peggy Lowe, and Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Executive Director of the Midwest Innocence Proje...

In 2022, Michelle Houcks finally spoke out. For 30 years, she'd been keeping a secret about the man she says raped her. Out of fear for herself and her family, she stayed quiet. Then she started seeing his face on the news, and someone leaked her name.  In this episode, we unpack the charges that KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski was scheduled to face, and hear Michelle's story.

Some say he met them through his job. Some say he came to their houses, or offered them a ride home. According to dozens of women, Roger Golubski, a detective with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, raped, assaulted and stalked them. Now, after decades of secrecy and fear, he stands trial in Federal Court. Golubski is charged with assault, rape and kidnapping. And he's been accused of much...