Jaws of Justice Radio

Monday, May 9th, Jaws of Justice will play a program which ran on 6-21-21 when Jalen Anderson, 1st District At-Large Jackson CTY Missouri Legislator spoke with Host Bev Livingston about the new KCMO detention center. At that time there had been a recently identified location for Jackson County to build a new detention center. Since […]

Host Margot Patterson interviews Jackson Beck, Program Associate at the Vera Institute for Justice, a non-profit national organization that partners with impacted communities and government leaders for transformation of the criminal legal and immigration system so that money doesn’t determine freedom; fewer people are incarcerated; and everyone behind bars is treated with dignity. https://www.vera...

Host Terri Wilke will speak with Latahra Smith of KC Freedom Project and Keith Carnes, who was recently released after more than 18 years of wrongful incarceration. Keith Carnes was never a criminal and prison did not turn him into a criminal.  I hope you will hear his message, grateful that he now has a chance […]

For our show on Monday April 11th, host Richard Mabion will speak with his friend, Rich Gutowski.  Rich is Founder of Alveare Foundation and Alveare PBC which are focused on regionally placed based community development using Public Benefit corporations as both the tool of cross sector collaboration and the means of providing sustainable long support […]

Host David Bell speaks with Rekha Sharma Crawford, Attorney and Author. https://sharma-crawford.com/ Rekha Sharma-Crawford is an immigration attorney and partner in the Kansas City law firm Sharma-Crawford Attorneys-at-Law. She is nationally recognized for her expertise. Sharma-Crawford regularly practices before the Federal Courts on cases involving affirmative immigration benefits and before the...

For the first half of our hour, host Bev Livingston speaks with Sen. Barbara Anne Washington about Missouri’s legislative happenings this session. https://www.senate.mo.gov/mem09/ Senator Washington, a Democrat, represents the 9th Senatorial District in the Missouri Senate. She was sworn into office on Jan. 6, 2021. Prior to being elected to the Senate, she served the […]

Veronica’s Voice helps victims of the sex trafficking trade in the Kansas City area.  Lucy will talk about the fear that victims have in the criminal justice system as victims and witnesses in the courtroom. https://www.veronicasvoice.org/ Sadly, there has been no end to sex trafficking.  Gladly, advocacy organizations like Veronica’s Voice provide high quality services […]

From misconceptions about people who have committed sexual offenses, to educational opportunities with our children to prevent sexual violence, we can learn about ourselves from studying how society treats sex offenders. Join David Bell as he speaks with Dr. Amy Griffith for this insightful and thought-provoking discussion. They talk about misconceptions we need to expose […]

Host Bev Livingston speaks with Janay Reliford-Davis of Camp CHOICE. https://campchoicekc.com/ Camp CHOICE is a life enrichment company serving youth ages 5-24. Camp CHOICE teaches vital life skills to help youth understand the impact of choices.  The Camp CHOICE mission is to provide youth life enrichment experiences that benefit their present and future spiritual, physical, […]

Latahra Smith, Founder of KC Freedom Project, talks with Cliff Middleton, son of Ken Middleton.  Ken was convicted for the 1990 murder of his wife in an act he has always clearly denied, contending she mishandled the gun and that her death was a tragic accident. Ken’s conviction was overturned because of ballistics evidence, but […]

Latahra Smith, Founder of KC Freedom Project, talks with Michelle Smith, Director of Community Engagement and Outreach with Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.  Michelle is a criminal legal system impacted advocate who experienced incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This made her more intimately aware of the dire reality faced by our imprisoned populations […]

Host David Bell Wilke talks with Kevin Pose, former Jackson County Missouri Chief Investigator, now retired, whose career in law enforcement began as Dispatcher before he was 21.  He retired in December 2021 after helping the office do its job under seven prosecutors. Kevin opens his story of the investigations he conducted with a review […]

Host Terri Wilke talks with Melissa Stiehler, Advocacy Director for Loud Light, whose mission is to engage, educate, and empower individuals from underrepresented populations to build community power that has an impact on decision makers.  They’re transforming Kansas because of their informative videos, coalition building, civic engagement, youth voter turnout. Voting can help everyone become […]

KKFI is amazing – the entire idea of Community Radio is amazing!  KKFI is not part of any larger media conglomerate, KKFI is us, thanks to the efforts of volunteers who program and produce shows like Jaws of Justice. The mission of Jaws of Justice Radio is to investigate how to achieve justice in America, […]

Kevin H. Sharp, Jeanne Roach, and Lenny Foster join host Craig Lubow to discuss the ongoing movement to free Leonard Peltier, the native American that was wrongly convicted of killing FBI agents and is viewed as a long-serving political prisoner. All three served on a workshop panel at a virtual Amnesty International event in the […]

During the first half of our hour, host Terri Wilke will speak with Latahra Smith, Founder of KC Freedom Project.  She will bring us up to date on the efforts of the community of the ministry which has been established to advocate for innocent persons who have been wrongly convicted of crime.  They will discuss Conviction […]

For the first half of our show for January 25th, 2022, host Bev Livingston, Founder of Mothers of Incarcerated Sons & Daughters will speak with four members, each of who has an incarcerated loved one, a child, sibling, or significant other.  They will share the tremendous impact that stems from having a loved one in […]

For our show for January 17, 2022, we dedicate our entire hour to the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Margot Patterson will speak with Darron Edwards, Senior Pastor of United Believers Community Church, the Rev. Dr. Emanual Cleaver III, Senior Minister of St. James United Methodist Church and Attorney, Civil Rights Advocate, and […]

On our show for January 10, 2022, we will start the hour with a piece by Keith Brown El.  Always thought provoking, Keith strives to bring you stories you do not hear from other sources of media. For the second half of our hour, host Melvin Merritt will speak with Kenisha Clark, mother of Rontarus […]

On our show for January 3, 2022, we will replay our 4/19/21 show when host Jeff Humfeld spoke with Ricky Kidd of, I am Resilience, about the tragedy of a wrongful conviction – Charlie Graham’s story. There is a growing realization amongst the ranks of law enforcement and the public as well that the war […]

Hosts David Bell and Craig Lubow will discuss some of the newsworthy cases of 2021. Special guest Bob Eye will join the discussion. We will talk about cases pending or decided by the US Supreme Court this year, as well as some of the trials held during 2021.   Calendar for the week of December […]

On our show for December 20, 2021, we hope you can join us on Jaws of Justice when host David Bell talks with trauma survivor and victims’ rights advocate, Kim Case. When she was in her early 20’s, the trajectory of Kim’s life abruptly changed when she was abducted and brutally assaulted by four men.  […]

For our show on December 13th, 2021, we are going to replay our show from October 11, 2021, when hosts Terri Wilke and Keith Brown El spoke with Spencer Graves, a host of RadioActive Magazine on KKFI and Khadijah Hardaway, who works with Tommy Simmons, a man many have heard from about the Kansas City […]

For our show on December 6, 2021, we are going to replay our show from April, 2020, when host Pat Bartholome spoke with Sheryl Ferguson.  On December 3, 2019, Kansas City police shot and killed 26-year-old Cameron Lamb, a black male, in his own backyard. Sheryl Ferguson will talk about Cameron Lamb. He was a […]

Host David Bell has a discussion with his guest, “Reggie”, who has spent his adult life in prison for a crime he committed when he was 17.  Tune in for a discussion on a horrible crime, his sentence, time in prison, treatment and how “Reggie” has come to terms with this. https://www.whmlaw.com/   We hope […]