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Decriminalization Saves Lives

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/decriminalization-saves-lives-a-conversation-with-travis-lupick/

As we head into the final week of the month we’re at 4 homicides for Feb (vs 11 in 2021) I’d argue really 3, last one was a guy choking a woman he knew and had a relationship to death after he claimed she broke into his house….sad story all around

Anyway- SLMPD has cleared 11 of the 19 2022 homicides for a clearance rate of 60%. That’s pretty good. Charges have been issued in 5 and 3 the CAO has refused to issue charges for various reasons (self defense, lack of witness, etc)

You’d argue that domestic violence killings aren’t murders?

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Feb 22, 2022

You’d argue that domestic violence killings aren’t murders?

id argue that like suicides, they shouldn't be on the UCR report 

But this isn’t like a suicide. The great majority of homicides involve a victim and assailant with a prior relationship up until the killing whether it’s familial, neighborly, business, etc.

If we ignored all the homicides where the assailant knew the victim then we wouldn't be able to scare people into increasing police funding every year.

^^^ The homicide analysis that the St Louis Police regularly release does break them down by motive and victim/suspect relationship if known so that data is out there even if they're all under the umbrella of the term 'homicide'

pattimagee wrote: ↑

Feb 22, 2022

yeah - good point. The old data  "Part 1 Crime Comparison Based on UCR Reporting All Neighborhoods" doesn't have it - do you know of a report that has that for the old homicides figures? 

https://www.slmpd.org/images/Homicide_S ... ebsite.pdf

The police dept's homicide webpage has it going back a few years (https://www.slmpd.org/homicide.shtml, right side of the page), but beyond that I don't know. I look at it periodically just to follow current numbers, but I haven't looked too far into historical numbers.

As we head into the final weekend of the month, we are still at 4 homicides in Feb (11 in 2021) and at 19 for the year compared to 33 in 2021 (-42%)

Disturbing

HB 1453 - Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee for having a firearm in the employee's vehicle on the employer's premises

https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB1 ... 022&code=R

Woman dies after being shot in downtown St. Louis

https://www.kmov.com/2022/03/06/woman-d ... -st-louis/

Domestic abuse and guns never end well, badly need red flag laws in Missouri.

Man shot in city’s Downtown West neighborhood on Washington Avenue

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 29660.html

downtown2007 wrote: ↑

Mar 12, 2022

Man shot in city’s Downtown West neighborhood on Washington Avenue

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 29660.html

I'm told this was inside the lobby/entry area of 1520 Washington Ave (Ely Walker Lofts)

walker wrote: ↑

Mar 12, 2022

downtown2007 wrote: ↑

Mar 12, 2022

Man shot in city’s Downtown West neighborhood on Washington Avenue

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 29660.html

I'm told this was inside the lobby/entry area of 1520 Washington Ave (Ely Walker Lofts)

These building continue to rent Airbnb to young people to throw parties. You can see this on Instagram via geotags. Ely Walker being one of the leading offenders

^Maybe one of the real advantages to hotels (and the regulation that goes with them) is that the bigger ones, where a party might be tolerated, have security on site to break something up if it leads to people climbing balconies or pulling their compensation out.

dbInSouthCity wrote:

walker wrote: ↑

Mar 12, 2022

downtown2007 wrote: ↑

Mar 12, 2022

Man shot in city’s Downtown West neighborhood on Washington Avenue

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 29660.html

I'm told this was inside the lobby/entry area of 1520 Washington Ave (Ely Walker Lofts)

These building continue to rent Airbnb to young people to throw parties. You can see this on Instagram via geotags. Ely Walker being one of the leading offenders

This is all of the Citywide/LuxLiving properties. So ready to be done renting from them.

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Is the issue that they don't have restrictions on short term rentals / AirBnBs / etc. in their leases or that they're simply choosing to not enforce their own lease terms?  Does the city have some overarching short term rental ordinance that could be used to hold Citywide/LuxLiving accountable for not enforcing their own rules?

The do short term leases themselves.

Laife Fulk wrote: ↑

Mar 14, 2022

Is the issue that they don't have restrictions on short term rentals / AirBnBs / etc. in their leases or that they're simply choosing to not enforce their own lease terms?  Does the city have some overarching short term rental ordinance that could be used to hold Citywide/LuxLiving accountable for not enforcing their own rules?

Its not just a CW/LL issue.  my building has them and i dont like it.  last fall i was at the gym when bunch of drunk dudes showed up to dick around the gym.  
City has been kicking around an ordinance, idk the status but not sure if it will do much to address party issues. 

Yeah, the ordinance doesn't do much unless the building / owner is held accountable in some meaningful way.  And I guess as an owner you'd have to be ok with the potential of people causing chaos and paying to fix broken stuff for the added revenue or else you wouldn't be on those platforms anyways.