^violent crime number for 2023 to date should be 3076 and not 3,346. I added a wrong category
Safest Cities in America (2023)
Adam McCann, WalletHub Financial Writer Oct 9, 2023
St. Louis is the most unsafe. According to this survey:
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-cities-in-america/41926
Adam McCann, WalletHub Financial Writer Oct 9, 2023
St. Louis is the most unsafe. According to this survey:
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-cities-in-america/41926
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Our natural disaster score is NA, which helps some cities with worse crime and other issues leapfrog us by simply having a score for that.
https://x.com/ybytata/status/1712110902206427372?s=46
https://x.com/ybytata/status/1712110902206427372?s=46
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Heads-up: Traffic policing in the City is definitely up. Two days ago just before noon, I drove on 64/40 west from Grand to the County. Between Grand and Clayton Road, three SLMPD cars had pulled over cars for speeding. Here's hoping they also start increasing patrols on City streets as well as highways, and target crap drivers more than people going a little over 60mph.
They need to set the traps after 7 pm. That's when the crazy stuff is happening.gone corporate wrote: ↑Oct 12, 2023Heads-up: Traffic policing in the City is definitely up. Two days ago just before noon, I drove on 64/40 west from Grand to the County. Between Grand and Clayton Road, three SLMPD cars had pulled over cars for speeding. Here's hoping they also start increasing patrols on City streets as well as highways, and target crap drivers more than people going a little over 60mph.
I think STLPD is afraid to do too much traffic enforcement. They'd end up arresting too many people.
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^ traffic infraction rarely leads to arrest. about 3.8% in 2022 in MO
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True, but I’d bet that percentage of arrest would go up substantially if they were pulling over for some of the crazier traffic infractions as mentioned above. Getting pulled over doing 95mph on FPP has to lead to an arrest, right?dbInSouthCity wrote:^ traffic infraction rarely leads to arrest. about 3.8% in 2022 in MO
The more people you pull over the more you will arrest. Do you know if the city publishes statistics on the number of open arrest warrants?dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Oct 13, 2023^ traffic infraction rarely leads to arrest. about 3.8% in 2022 in MO
Cars and guns, guns and cars
RFT - Did McCulloch Terrorize Kirkwood Drivers 2 Days Before Trunk or Treat Shooting?
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/di ... g-41069701
RFT - Did McCulloch Terrorize Kirkwood Drivers 2 Days Before Trunk or Treat Shooting?
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/di ... g-41069701
StlToday - Kia to give anti-theft software upgrades to cars this weekend at the St. Louis Galleria
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... e5d55.html
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... e5d55.html
One Regulation Could Have Stopped a Nationwide Car Theft Wave. Why Don't We Have It?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxdmx/one-regulation-could-have-stopped-a-nationwide-car-theft-wave-why-dont-we-have-it
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxdmx/one-regulation-could-have-stopped-a-nationwide-car-theft-wave-why-dont-we-have-it
138 homicides YTD. If Nov and Dec are avg of the last 10 years, that'd be 170.
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October would have been better if that guy in south city didn’t lose his sh*t and killed his 2 roommates.
Oct and YTD
What the Kia-Hyundai Crime Wave Tells Us About the Long-Term Decline in Crime
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/11/what-the-kia-hyundai-crime-wave-tells-us-about-the-long-term-decline-in-crime.html
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/11/what-the-kia-hyundai-crime-wave-tells-us-about-the-long-term-decline-in-crime.html
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If you include “justifiable homicides” (self defense ruled) through today for each year
2023: 144 (5 JH)
2022: 182 (11 JH)
2021: 183 (20 JH)
2020: 255 (14 JH)
-21% vs 2022, -21.3% vs 2021 and -44% vs 2020.
2023: 144 (5 JH)
2022: 182 (11 JH)
2021: 183 (20 JH)
2020: 255 (14 JH)
-21% vs 2022, -21.3% vs 2021 and -44% vs 2020.
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Cool. It appears a functional justice system might slowly chip away at the numbers.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Nov 07, 2023If you include “justifiable homicides” (self defense ruled) through today for each year
2023: 144 (5 JH)
2022: 182 (11 JH)
2021: 183 (20 JH)
2020: 255 (14 JH)
-21% vs 2022, -21.3% vs 2021 and -44% vs 2020.
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Aggravated assaults with a firearm aka shootings (through Oct)
2023; 1607
2022: 1900
2021: 2037
2020: 2602
2019: 2239
-15.42% vs 2022, -21.10% vs 2021, -38.23% vs 2020 and -28.22 vs 2019
2023; 1607
2022: 1900
2021: 2037
2020: 2602
2019: 2239
-15.42% vs 2022, -21.10% vs 2021, -38.23% vs 2020 and -28.22 vs 2019
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I actually had no idea this happened and had a friend who lives in Virginia ask if we lived near the "Central West End" in St. Louis because this is making the local news rounds due to the footage available.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... 0970f4f830
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... 0970f4f830
Obviously he was homeless and had a record of past offenses. I believe this is 100% random but the eyewitness that channel 5 interviewed (as well as kmox) are not reflective of the neighborhood. KMOX / Audacy employee said he would "never walk in that area again." Right outside Whole foods? Hardly an area to avoid.
The commentary from eyewitnesses is not what we want for the neighborhood / city image, regardless.
The commentary from eyewitnesses is not what we want for the neighborhood / city image, regardless.
I wouldn’t worry about “image” anymore. The world is pure chaos right now and social media makes that chaos more accessible than ever before. Today it might be a homeless man in St. Louis, yesterday it was a motorcycle gang member attacking a single mother in Pittsburgh, tomorrow it’ll be a racist man in Salt Lake, next week it’ll be a Walgreens ransacked in Nashville.
People consume, locals say something like “only in (insert city name)”, people move on.
For example, Ferguson was noteworthy in 2015 because it was one of the first large responses to police violence in modern history. In 2023, a gas station set ablaze in the suburbs of St. Louis wouldn’t even capture a footnote on CNN.
People consume, locals say something like “only in (insert city name)”, people move on.
For example, Ferguson was noteworthy in 2015 because it was one of the first large responses to police violence in modern history. In 2023, a gas station set ablaze in the suburbs of St. Louis wouldn’t even capture a footnote on CNN.
This person should have been institutionalized after his first or second offense. The many clearly unstable people floating around the region need to be transferred to a mental health facility where they can get on antipsychotics and get a shot at rehabilitation. We are so squeamish about doing anything we just make things worse for everyone.
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lets let the metro area cops know
AirTags are the new go-to tool for cops after spike in car thefts
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/airtags-are-the-new-go-to-tool-for-cops-after-spike-in-car-thefts/
AirTags are the new go-to tool for cops after spike in car thefts
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/airtags-are-the-new-go-to-tool-for-cops-after-spike-in-car-thefts/
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I would agree with this, but I also believe getting off of any top 10 list would be a real benefit to the entire metro area from a PR perspective - it would allow us to create/control our identity. I also believe it would do well for the local morale to know and feel like we have some positive momentum from our previous trends... as opposed to the self imposed schadenfreude upon our own city that we often hear (of which I have engaged in because its impossible not to sometimes)...addxb2 wrote: ↑Nov 07, 2023I wouldn’t worry about “image” anymore. The world is pure chaos right now and social media makes that chaos more accessible than ever before. Today it might be a homeless man in St. Louis, yesterday it was a motorcycle gang member attacking a single mother in Pittsburgh, tomorrow it’ll be a racist man in Salt Lake, next week it’ll be a Walgreens ransacked in Nashville.
People consume, locals say something like “only in (insert city name)”, people move on.
For example, Ferguson was noteworthy in 2015 because it was one of the first large responses to police violence in modern history. In 2023, a gas station set ablaze in the suburbs of St. Louis wouldn’t even capture a footnote on CNN.