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24-04-2023, 10:11 AM
By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER
yesterday
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri’s Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of the police force.
The debate over policing power in St. Louis — a racially diverse, heavily Democratic city long vexed by violent crime — carries political and racial overtones like those that have roiled other cities and states this year. But data suggest neither state nor local control may make much difference when it comes to stemming homicides.
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With violent crime troubling many large cities, Republicans nationwide have pushed a tough-on-crime agenda that would make it harder for the accused to get out of jail on bail and lock up people longer when convicted of certain offenses. Now a proposed state takeover of the St. Louis police department is being touted as a way to fight crime.
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Homicide rates in St. Louis ...... increased by an average annual rate of 8.2%, exceeding 190 deaths each of the past four years.
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also saw upticks in homicides in the early 1990s, when both had state control of their police.
Much better to read the full article at: https://apnews.com/article/st-louis-poli...d67f08412e
yesterday
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri’s Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of the police force.
The debate over policing power in St. Louis — a racially diverse, heavily Democratic city long vexed by violent crime — carries political and racial overtones like those that have roiled other cities and states this year. But data suggest neither state nor local control may make much difference when it comes to stemming homicides.
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With violent crime troubling many large cities, Republicans nationwide have pushed a tough-on-crime agenda that would make it harder for the accused to get out of jail on bail and lock up people longer when convicted of certain offenses. Now a proposed state takeover of the St. Louis police department is being touted as a way to fight crime.
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Homicide rates in St. Louis ...... increased by an average annual rate of 8.2%, exceeding 190 deaths each of the past four years.
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also saw upticks in homicides in the early 1990s, when both had state control of their police.
Much better to read the full article at: https://apnews.com/article/st-louis-poli...d67f08412e
