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The city can assess a workers quality and dismiss them or encourage them with a pay raise. If dismissed, the role can be posted with a higher salary. It's literally how the real world works and is the extent of my comment. I'm trying to figure out where exactly I paint all city employees.  The city should have higher standards and should reward those that raise the bar with a pay raise. 

You're reading my post with a hyper-sensitive eye because I've contributed to the Mayoral discussion. It's not just my perception and it's been noted by other posters who have reached out to me directly. I have been on this forum for 10 years and I have never had this type of pestering.

I guess the 80k in missing cash was small beans compared to the 5 million in missing vehicles!

Through April (typo in citywide overall %, should be -26%, not -51%

You just love to see it.

Do we have the data before 2020? All of it’s really impressive but I think some are still looking for that “Is it back to normal?”

Homicides I know are back to normal or better than 2015-2020, right?

addxb2 wrote: ↑

May 07, 2025

Do we have the data before 2020? All of it’s really impressive but I think some are still looking for that “Is it back to normal?”

Homicides I know are back to normal or better than 2015-2020, right?

Yes and no. It’s difficult to make a direct comparison because the method of crime reporting changed significantly in 2021. Prior to that, only the most serious offense in a single incident was recorded in the data. Beginning in 2021, however, every offense within an incident is reported. As a result, comparing total crime numbers can be misleading. for example, total reported crimes in 2019 were around 27,000, while in 2024 they were over 50,000. But these figures are not directly comparable due to the change in national reporting standards.

That said, I have violent crime data going back to 1970, and both in total numbers and per capita, 2024 had the lowest levels in that 50-year span. The reason some level of comparison is still possible is that, even before 2021, violent crimes generally reflected the most severe incident—typically a homicide, aggravated assault, or similar.

it’s important to note that a pre-2021 incident involving a robbery where one person was shot and another was killed would only be recorded as a homicide, whereas post-2021 data would reflect all three offenses.

Taking that into account, I feel confident stating that violent crime in 2024 is at historic lows both in total and on a per capita basis compared to the past five decades.

Triple homicides usually get a little more pub.

https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/05/09/ ... d-suspect/

^A dead body on the front porch isn't enough of an exigent circumstance to go in without a search warrant?

leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑

May 12, 2025

Triple homicides usually get a little more pub.

https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/05/09/ ... d-suspect/

Usually not when it’s a domestic murder-suicide by cop

dbInSouthCity wrote:

leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑

May 12, 2025

Triple homicides usually get a little more pub.

https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/05/09/ ... d-suspect/

Usually not when it’s a domestic murder-suicide by cop

I haven’t seen anything about this being a domestic murder-suicide by cop, and this did get a ton of coverage in the local media.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... r_stltoday

This is actually a really smart and good idea by Spencer and company. I totally support it. Get back some of the money they're literally stealing.

I feel like the whole "murder rate" thing is silly in a way. STL is gonna get its numbers. I feel like this is like LeBron or Jordan or Curry or Jokic, some nights you put up 38 and some nights you put up 20. When it's all said and done, we are going to get our numbers. Maybe a up a little, maybe down a little. We'll be around our career averages and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Violent crime by City in 2024

Kansas City (state controlled police): 8,073

St.Louis, Columbia, Springfield, Cape, Joplin and St.Joseph combined: 7,516

2021: 69
2025: 42-44
Reduction: 36-39% reduction.

There is a new book by Tom S. Clark, Adam N. Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America.  Here are a few of the conclusions:
   …we were more likely to obtain records [on police shootings] from cities with women mayors and more women on municipal legislatures.
    …we also found that fewer police shootings occurred in cities with more police, all else equal.
And:
    …Black and Hispanic officers are disproportionately the ones involved in police shootings.  That is particularly true when a Black civilian is the subject of the shooting.
https://a.co/d/hqUMLht

Four homicides. One house.

Firearms and drugs found in the house. Seems eerily similar to the multiple murder suicide in North STL a couple weeks ago. Like that one it's highly unlikely this was random but man these multiple murders are tough to take even as our total homicides are down.

These last multiple murders in the same house are tragic but I hope at least those deaths are gang members and not just addicts or innocent bystanders

Rick Prieto wrote: ↑

May 19, 2025

These last multiple murders in the same house are tragic but I hope at least those deaths are gang members and not just addicts or innocent bystanders

They're all humans

This terrorist gang activity has to stop! Send them to El Salvador! Or maybe these bored suburban kids can do some tornado cleanup.

KSDK - Wildwood father warns others after home vandalized in ‘organized’ teen tradition: ‘They came back at 2 a.m. and destroyed it’

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local ... 7ea5eea29a