Shots were reported but never verified. All the police found was a dude in a dorm room with a fake gun.
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When it comes to the gun issue I'm always fascinated by people on this forum who have a seething hatred for the general group of people known as MISSOURAH but only a shrug about the general group of people in the City who have been shooting other humans nearly daily for the past 50 years. Psychologically, it's utterly fascinating.
If there is a serial shooter randomly firing shots into the air just to see where the bullet comes down this could get bad real quick. There has been many reports of shots fired near 14th and Chouteau lately.
If I get shot and killed by a random bullet I will come back from the dead and cast a Holocaust over this mother ***** city.
If there is a serial shooter randomly firing shots into the air just to see where the bullet comes down this could get bad real quick. There has been many reports of shots fired near 14th and Chouteau lately.
If I get shot and killed by a random bullet I will come back from the dead and cast a Holocaust over this mother ***** city.
Just a thought I had, maybe the cardinals issue was an attempted assassination. Just a thought,
The SLU scare ended up being a rubber band gun that an engineering student build as a class assignment. The 'shots fired' report given to SLU and reported on their official twitter account ended up being a false alarm.Chalupas54 wrote: ↑May 03, 2017Shooting on I-55 and shots fired at SLU..not a good day.
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There seems to be a lot of assumptions being made in the Busch Stadium incident. I am not sure why the SLMPD would release any information on a potentially high profile incident like this without knowing any concrete information.
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Theres simply too many guys roaming around freely in St.Louis getting into the wrong hands of not only career criminals now our youth are starting use them.
Busch Stadium is now the latest casualty in the more profoundly gun slinging freely epidemic that will perceive St.Louis as a even further dangerous city our image and perception are only our reality this is what St.Louis is until people decide they want real change nothing is ever going to change. I'm not sure which are worse than the other guns or drugs either way they're the best 1-2 punch combination.
I sincerely hope truth today will be a truce for peace for our future!
Busch Stadium is now the latest casualty in the more profoundly gun slinging freely epidemic that will perceive St.Louis as a even further dangerous city our image and perception are only our reality this is what St.Louis is until people decide they want real change nothing is ever going to change. I'm not sure which are worse than the other guns or drugs either way they're the best 1-2 punch combination.
I sincerely hope truth today will be a truce for peace for our future!
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Nobody is okay with urban gangsters shooting each other. But it's the Missourah group that makes the rules and therefore deserve much of the blame.leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑May 04, 2017When it comes to the gun issue I'm always fascinated by people on this forum who have a seething hatred for the general group of people known as MISSOURAH but only a shrug about the general group of people in the City who have been shooting other humans nearly daily for the past 50 years. Psychologically, it's utterly fascinating.
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April crime numbers are out and some mixed-news. Homicides are down 7% y.t.d. but shootings are up 26% and overall violent crime is up 3%, Same thing with property crimes; burglaries and auto thefts are down but larcenies are up -- especially from motor vehicles -- and property crimes are up 4% overall.
http://www.slmpd.org/crimestats/CRM0013-BY_201704.pdf
April itself was a bit better, with violent crime down over previous April and property crime about the same,
http://www.slmpd.org/crimestats/CRM0013-BY_201704.pdf
April itself was a bit better, with violent crime down over previous April and property crime about the same,
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Let's assume that urban gangsters and poor uneducated rural white trash are equivalents. Wouldn't they both be susceptible to these rules made up by the Missourah overlords? What explains the difference in murder/violence/crime?MarkHaversham wrote:Nobody is okay with urban gangsters shooting each other. But it's the Missourah group that makes the rules and therefore deserve much of the blame.leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑May 04, 2017When it comes to the gun issue I'm always fascinated by people on this forum who have a seething hatred for the general group of people known as MISSOURAH but only a shrug about the general group of people in the City who have been shooting other humans nearly daily for the past 50 years. Psychologically, it's utterly fascinating.
I'm searching for an answer.
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Rural folks don't have as many people to shoot, basically. I mean, how many drug turf shooting wars can you have in the country?leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑May 05, 2017Let's assume that urban gangsters and poor uneducated rural white trash are equivalents. Wouldn't they both be susceptible to these rules made up by the Missourah overlords? What explains the difference in murder/violence/crime?
Of course, they're still getting screwed over in other ways.
Come on, now; the "Missourah group" isn't making ALL the rules. I think there's plenty of blame to go around.MarkHaversham wrote: ↑May 05, 2017
Nobody is okay with urban gangsters shooting each other. But it's the Missourah group that makes the rules and therefore deserve much of the blame.
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They're the ones most actively pushing for more poverty, more guns, less infrastructure and less education. Exactly how much agency do you think the urban poor have, aside from "join a gang, die in a shootout; or work hard in school, resist life-long bullying from literal murderers, probably die in a shootout anyway"?framer wrote: ↑May 05, 2017Come on, now; the "Missourah group" isn't making ALL the rules. I think there's plenty of blame to go around.MarkHaversham wrote: ↑May 05, 2017
Nobody is okay with urban gangsters shooting each other. But it's the Missourah group that makes the rules and therefore deserve much of the blame.
Oh jeez.
Hopefully our potato-quality cameras come through with a license plate..
Hopefully our potato-quality cameras come through with a license plate..
This weekend has been one of the worst to my knowledge for the whole Metropolitan Area
Oof. And what a wonderful Grand Opening welcome for the Schuchards. Visitors to Das Bevo last night were welcomed by a large crime scene. Police had Morgan Ford completely blocked with crime scene tape and multiple police vans at Gravois, right under the newly-restarted windmill.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... 27c1f.html
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• About noon, a man in his 20s was shot in the cheek in the 1900 block of Bremen Avenue. Police say they have a suspect in mind, but the victim and witnesses were not cooperating in the investigation.
• About 6 p.m., a 31-year-old woman was fatally shot near Virginia Avenue and Itaska Street, in the city's Dutchtown neighborhood. She was hit three times, in the back and abdomen. She died at a hospital.
• About 7 p.m., police in St. Louis County were called to a shooting scene in the 100 block of Shepley Drive. An 18-year-old man, Teranne Cooper Jr., was found fatally shot in an apartment building.
• About 7:30 p.m., a man was found shot inside a vehicle at Salena and Miami streets, in the city's Marine Villa neighborhood. He died at a hospital.
• Just before 8 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in the left leg at Delor Street and Morganford Road. He was stable and taken to a hospital.
• Shortly before 9 p.m., a 19-year-old woman was fatally shot in the 4200 block of Neosho Avenue. She was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle. She died at the hospital.
• Shortly before 11 p.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the foot in the 2700 block of Meramec Street. He was stable, police say.
• Just before midnight, a man sitting on his porch in the 4400 block of Taft Avenue was shot in the hand. He took himself to the hospital and was stable, police say.
I didn't know there was that much
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Unfortunately, recognizing that humans are in fact diverse in their behaviors, actions and histories is not always cause for a celebration.
The inevitable rise of the robocops
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/tech/ ... d=37863295
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/tech/ ... d=37863295
http://www.kmov.com/story/35484090/3-ki ... uis-sunday
I find this interesting: Two happened on a busy stretch of Gravois, a state highway. The others were within about 1000 ft of a highway interchange, except the STL Co shooting. I've always understood that real estate near highway ramps or near highways is undesireable and tends to act as a poverty concentrator. Does the geographic scope of shootings tend to be concentrated around highway interchanges in general?
If so, does that start to build a case for de-highwayifying Gravois, and also rethinking how highway ramps are incorporated into the city?
I find this interesting: Two happened on a busy stretch of Gravois, a state highway. The others were within about 1000 ft of a highway interchange, except the STL Co shooting. I've always understood that real estate near highway ramps or near highways is undesireable and tends to act as a poverty concentrator. Does the geographic scope of shootings tend to be concentrated around highway interchanges in general?
If so, does that start to build a case for de-highwayifying Gravois, and also rethinking how highway ramps are incorporated into the city?
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The on and off ramps around the 44/55 exchange provide criminals with quick and easy access in and out of the surrounding neighborhoods. It keeps property crimes a constant.onecity wrote: http://www.kmov.com/story/35484090/3-ki ... uis-sunday
I find this interesting: Two happened on a busy stretch of Gravois, a state highway. The others were within about 1000 ft of a highway interchange, except the STL Co shooting. I've always understood that real estate near highway ramps or near highways is undesireable and tends to act as a poverty concentrator. Does the geographic scope of shootings tend to be concentrated around highway interchanges in general?
If so, does that start to build a case for de-highwayifying Gravois, and also rethinking how highway ramps are incorporated into the city?
I think the damage is done and there is nothing that can fix it. A criminal, even the dumbest, will likely consider a "getaway route". 44 and 55 are perfect for criminals looking for populated areas to commit crimes especially in a city with virtually no proactive policing to speak of.
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I'm planning to pitch this to the city. Not sure how to go about it yet, but I'd like for the company to come and give a presentation and/or demonstration of their services to the mayor and BoA (they offer to do so on their website). If anybody has any ideas on how to formally go about this let me know.
https://www.pss-1.com/
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Seems like a reasonable line of thought, but thinking about it off the top of my head, picturing a shootings / homicide / violent crime pinhead map of STL (which I haven't looked at super recently, but have seen multiple times before), I'm thinking "no huge correlation". I'm thinking the highest density of pinheads for STL are directly north of midtown - maybe a mile or two? Not exactly close to I-70 to the north, far from I-64 to the south.leeharveyawesome wrote: Does the geographic scope of shootings tend to be concentrated around highway interchanges in general?
Another area that I think would have a high density of pinheads would be around Dutchtown / Gravois Park area. You have I-55 on the East edge, but if you're over around Gravois Park (the park itself), you got a lot of blocks to go before getting over to I-55.
I wonder what we can do as individuals invested in the success of the city (and the metro area in general) to start holding our elected officials more accountable to addressing this issue? I understand this is top of mind and important to all of them, but it really has to be THE TOP issue for each of them as so much about ensuring the metro area thrives is dependent upon people feeling safe to want to come and stay in the city. The only exposure many people who live and work in the burbs (and others across the country for that matter) have of the city is of some unlawful dump. I write emails/letters to elected officials, attend neighborhood meetings, but don't see the needle moving (at least in the direction that I would like to see). What can we do?