The Kansas City Police Department is asking for a 21.6% increase in funding for next fiscal year, despite the city’s budget woes. The money is needed for personnel costs, legal settlements, and hiring more officers and 911 call-takers, police said.

The Kansas City Police Department’s request for a nearly 22% budget increase is “not feasible” while the city faces a $100 million shortfall, Mayor Quinton Lucas said Wednesday.

The Board of Police Commissioners last week approved a budget ask of more than $417 million, or about $50 million more than last year. The department said it needs the money for, among other things, personnel costs, legal settlements and hiring more officers in anticipation of the World Cup in Kansas City next summer.

City Manager Mario Vasquez recently ordered a fr

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