Reeder v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case is a challenge, under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, to a Missouri statute which prohibits members of the Kansas City Police Force from participating in or contributing money to political causes and campaigns. No such drastic prohibition on political activity applies to police in other Missouri cities. In an earlier appeal to this Court, Reeder v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, 733 F.2d 543 (8th Cir.1984), we rejected arguments that this statute violated the First Amendment and that it attempted to regulate in a field…