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quincunx wrote: ↑

Jan 26, 2023

How do you figure $17M?

2021 MSHP budget 387M/6.1m Missourians x 300,000 city residents. 

Now that there was a news story about it the roads will be swarmed with state troopers for the next week. Then poof, back to nothing like normal.

https://www.kmov.com/2023/01/27/missour ... -new-bill/

To be honest I am not totally opposed to the state appointing a special prosecutor to handle violent crime, especially given the absolute disaster that the city's attorney office seems to be in. Sounds like this would be funded by the state anyway. The SLU professor who gets interviewed makes extremely sensible comments in my view.

Did we have 180 or 200 homicides in 2022? idk.  if you add month by month data from the crime stats page its 180 but the daily UCR page says 200.  
By Month

14
11
12
12
19
14
18
29
13
10
15
13

180 

Rooting for the County on this one. Let's see my ten year old prediction that County has more murder than City be a reality. Could this be the year?

As I’ve said many times in this thread, there is nothing police can do about someone walking down a street with a gun, even a teenager and it looks like some sense has finally been talked into MO GOP

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 014d1.html

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 38b49.html

Two St. Louis police officers shot Thursday night in Soulard

Two St. Louis police officers were hit by gunfire and critically injured Thursday night near the Soulard Market. Police returned fire, shooting the suspect in the ankle, authorities said.

Screen shot of Police Chief Robert Tracy talking about officers' injuries.
The officers and the suspect were all hospitalized in critical condition, St. Louis police Chief Robert Tracy said outside Barnes-Jewish Hospital, where he visited one of the officers around midnight Thursday.

Soulard has been bit of a hotbed for shootings this year....

'That's insane': 149 cars stolen in St. Louis in one week, police say

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... 174ec7bff1

dweebe wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

Soulard has been bit of a hotbed for shootings this year....

-at the always sketchy Conoco station early January
-the weird shooting inside Henrys last fall
Am I missing any other ones?

This *absolutely* misses the forest (STL's excessive crime/violence problem) for the trees ("where" STL criminals shooters live/play/work), but I'll write it anyway...

Last night's shooting had nothing to do with anything related* to Soulard.  These criminals were running from police through Soulard and "simply" crashed there.  Same thing could happen in any metro neighborhood or town. 

 The  media headlines make it seem like last night's episode was criminals roaming Soulard specifically,  shooting cops.

*be all that as it may, I strongly suspect last night's criminals were speeding toward the highway entrance ramp just north of Soulard Market by The Darkness. The entrance ramp is a super easy get-away route when evading cops.  I've wanted that entrance ramp closed for decades to prevent such things.

downtown2007 wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

'That's insane': 149 cars stolen in St. Louis in one week, police say

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime ... 174ec7bff1

I mean we had 7200 car stolen over 365 days last year.... about the same per week average. 

Which is unacceptable

Of those 7200, 62.5% were Kia and Hyundais

The Kia Boyz usb hack only became popular in about June/July last year. I'm sure that percentage is much higher in Q3 and Q4.

dweebe wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

soulardx wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

dweebe wrote: ↑

Feb 03, 2023

-at the always sketchy Conoco station early January
-the weird shooting inside Henrys last fall
Am I missing any other ones?

This *absolutely* misses the forest (STL's excessive crime/violence problem) for the trees ("where" STL criminals shooters live/play/work), but I'll write it anyway...

Last night's shooting had nothing to do with anything related* to Soulard.  These criminals were running from police through Soulard and "simply" crashed there.  Same thing could happen in any metro neighborhood or town. 

 The  media headlines make it seem like last night's episode was criminals roaming Soulard specifically,  shooting cops.

*be all that as it may, I strongly suspect last night's criminals were speeding toward the highway entrance ramp just north of Soulard Market by The Darkness. The entrance ramp is a super easy get-away route when evading cops.  I've wanted that entrance ramp closed for decades to prevent such things.

I'm mostly convinced that ramp is there simply for A-B and the other Koskiusko truck yards.

Yes, it's mostly utilized by freight haulers so likely going nowhere. But, it's just such an easy escape/onramp. Zero traffic lights to run.  Just tear-ass behind Soulard Market and off you go.

Ben the bear has escaped again!

https://www.kmov.com/2023/02/23/andean-bear-escapes-saint-louis-zoo-again/

He's so cool.

... Born Free ... as free as the wind blows ...

Do they use the same locks as the city jail?

D'oh!