Wonder if it was a set up. It was so loud and close it seems like too much of a coincidence that it happened just as the Mayor was talking about crime prevention. She has enemies.
So this happened Tuesday night right on the border of Dutchtown and Carondelet on Walsh Street between Grand and Grace Avenues (right behind Domino's Pizza), about a block south of St. Mary's High School... it's a little less than a mile away from me.
Aren't there multiple shootouts where nobody hits anybody like every single night? If videos were more accessible, they could probably lead the 10pm news with that every night.
I know I've seen several and I'm not even in a bad neighborhood.
Aren't there multiple shootouts where nobody hits anybody like every single night? If videos were more accessible, they could probably lead the 10pm news with that every night.
I know I've seen several and I'm not even in a bad neighborhood.
IMHO it should lead the 10pm news EVERY FREAKING NIGHT until it stops becoming a common occurrence. The occurrence itself and this statement from the story: "Police said they received calls for shots fired but the suspects were gone when they arrived" , are the two biggest things that keep me from moving back to the city.
I want to support our first responders but given what I've seen over the years I have a feeling the police might not have been in the biggest hurry to tend to the situation.
I love the city. I want to see the city flourish and be healthy. I want to invest in the city. But I just don't need a shootout happening behind my house.
Yeah, it is newsworthy only because there is very clear video of it. Even though I did not see it, something similar happened within blocks of my house twice in the last month: you hear a bunch of gunshots and then speeding cars.
Downplaying random gunfire in the city is not a good plan to fix anything. Just because it happens more than it should in St. Louis doesn't mean it needs to be normalized. It's an issue and should be reported on as such.
It's not downplaying. I'm just saying it's so common that one shootout out of hundreds per year is barely news. People getting actually shot and killed rate like two sentences and no followup most times.
If the video is the only thing that makes it newsworthy, doesn't that by definition make it barely newsworthy?
The volume of shooting going on here (separate from people actually being shot) absolutely should be getting more publicity. But that's tough to do, since it's hard to quantify and separate out when probably the only data you have is "shots fired" calls. And who knows what that indicates or even how many are being called in and how many are being fired at people vs. just in the air.
Downplaying random gunfire in the city is not a good plan to fix anything. Just because it happens more than it should in St. Louis doesn't mean it needs to be normalized. It's an issue and should be reported on as such.
If TV news is going to focus on gunfire in the city, they literally won't have space/time to talk about anything else.
Waiting for the final day to hit, but assuming yesterday was a 0, November came in at 12 homicides which is dramatically lower than last year. I'll follow up once its posted.
