Will have to await final neighborhood stats but I believe North City homicide was down this year but up elsewhere... perhaps it's due in part to crime migration outside targeted enforcement areas but it's really hard to say. I believe Chief Hayden said they'd be targeting Gravois Park/Dutchtown/TGS area around Grand & Gravois.Ebsy wrote: ↑Jan 02, 2019I believe the City ended up at 187 homicides for 2018 after a particularly bloody December. While that is down from 2017, it is only a single homicide below 2015 and 2016 iirc. Hopefully in the new year we can see more improvement, but it seems whenever the police get a handle on violence in one neighborhood it just moves to another in North City. Despite population losses on the north side, more and more people are there each year.
Same here in St Louis: I remember reading an article either at STL Mag or the Post Dispatch a while ago where they were interviewing one of the directors or chief surgeons of the Children's Hospital on the often contested decisions to treat adults in the ER. Apparently, shooting victims are occasionally dropped in the ER for Children's Hospital regardless of the age. The hospital can then decide to treat them or not, and it typically does decide to take them on (instead of sending them to a nearby hospital such as BJC). The director said that treating adults, especially shooting victims, has greatly improved their know how of how to handle this type of cases for children who were shot (something that happens much more often in St Louis than in other places). He argues that treating shooting victims + knowledge acquired in the Iraq War has been a great driver of the fall in homicide victims in the last 20 years or so.ImprovSTL wrote: ↑Jan 03, 2019I'm still very interested in the number of shootings compared to homicides. I read a report out of Chicago that the drop in their homicides was due in large part to advancements in treating gunshot victims. While that is great, it might not clearly show that crime is falling.
Usually when Winter is this bad murders decline, so there is probably something provoking the violence. Gang turf wars on the North Side maybe?
As a fellow Shaw resident, I would like to clarify something. Our leaders (Police, Political, and Community) have been tremendously effective at reducing crime in the last 10 years. Shaw is objectively much safe now than it was 10 or even 5 years ago. Violent crime has been more than cut in half and crime overall is down by almost 2/3.robbie wrote: ↑Feb 19, 2019We have an aldermanic election in the 8th ward this year. The primary criterion I plan on using to see who gets my vote is what their plans are to address crime. Both candidates in my ward have the standard talking points about addressing the root causes, which is certainly something that should be done. However, I'm currently just as interested in what they (and the city) plan to do to reduce the number of carjackings and robberies in the neighborhood over the next 3-6 months, not 3-6 years. Do others ask these questions of their alderpeople? What responses have you received?
