urbanSTL

remember all the Kia troubles?
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2471499/hackers-remotely-unlocked-kia-cars-with-just-a-license-plate-scan.html

The benefit of a sensationalized media and intellectually weak reader that has led to perception vs. reality … it works both ways.

U.S. City Safety Report: St. Louis no longer among top 10 dangerous cities

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/u-s-c ... us-cities/

Somewhat related to crime and reframing our image, would SLDC have the money to hire a PR firm to produce and circulate videos promoting St. Louis as a rising city? Detroit has been doing these. Austin’s and Tampa’s tourism and development bureau has always used these.

With the right circulation, you could reach a lot of young people who may be considering moving to StL, the prospective employees that have to fill our growing job market, etc.

delmar2debaliviere2downtown wrote: ↑

Oct 12, 2024

Somewhat related to crime and reframing our image, would SLDC have the money to hire a PR firm to produce and circulate videos promoting St. Louis as a rising city? Detroit has been doing these. Austin’s and Tampa’s tourism and development bureau has always used these.

With the right circulation, you could reach a lot of young people who may be considering moving to StL, the prospective employees that have to fill our growing job market, etc.

That’s not SLDCs mission, we have Explore St.Louis for that and they produce all kinds of videos and tv commercials that run in markets within 300 miles

$28M building permit application submitted for new 911 Dispatch facility at 2741 Thomas St. and Leffingwell.

Those gosh-darn FBI crime revisions….Damm

whitherSTL wrote:Those gosh-darn FBI crime revisions….Damm

Since the only people talking about this are right wing nuts on Twitter…

addxb2 wrote: ↑

Oct 16, 2024

whitherSTL wrote:Those gosh-darn FBI crime revisions….Damm

Since the only people talking about this are right wing nuts on Twitter…

Therefore Whither is a right wing nut? Caring about accurate statistics (regarding crime or anything else) is exclusively a right wing thing now? I suppose both could be true, but the former is irrelevant, and the latter says more about everyone else than it does about "right wing nuts." 

Speaking as a left wing nut, crime is bad, knowing just how bad is important, and the FBI making a massive revision in a bad direction, without explanation, is surely significant (and bad)! If there's a technical explanation, then the FBI should provide it to the public. Until they do, it seems perfectly reasonable to presume a non-technical, possibly even political, explanation.

None of this has anything to do with crime in St Louis. There is no revision to our numbers.


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Why are we talking about FBI data when SLMPD posts data monthly going back to 2009

Are there any breakdowns of crime by neighborhood? 

Because if it isn't true that Downtown isn't one of the worst areas, then the City needs to BLAST that message out through the media. Sadly the current city government seems extremely insular, at least from my external perspective. 

SLMPD also has 15 years of monthly crime data by neighborhood. Crime in Downtown (downtown and Downtown west neighborhoods is down 24% vs last year and 2023 was -22% vs 2022)

I thought this would've already been the case but I guess a win is a win. Metro Transit CCTV (Security Cameras) will now feed directly into the City's Real Time Crime Center. This is the final connection following St. Louis County and St. Clair County. 
https://www.bistatedev.org/wp-content/u ... erials.pdf

We are at another 10 day homicide free streak, 3rd one since start of Sept

https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/11/11/ ... -st-louis/

This specific corner exemplifies the “delmar divide” maybe more than any corner. That BP might needs the treatment of the Shell downtown. This is a corner with derelict buildings and a problem gas station sandwiched between the Delmar Loop, a middle class neighborhood, a wealthy neighborhood - classic image of the divide.

Do others think the city should continue to take action against these properties as nuisances? There are several I can think of off the top of my head.I am in between on it

Maybe I am too tilted against gas stations, fast food, liquor marts in the first place. I don’t want small business owners to be unfairly punished but there should be standards

Not above the priority of going after absent property owners but I would put this type of action on the list of things that would rapidly improve city’s image.

I thought this was going to be about the gunfire I heard at about 6 pm. Nope.

The police do not have magic powers to "intervene" as soon as someone calls 911

The police choose not to intervene all the time. Who on this forum hasn’t seen a cop watch a crime occur and do nothing about it? Or sought the assistance of a cop shortly after a crime has occurred only to find them uninterested in helping?

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Nov 26, 2024

The police choose not to intervene all the time. Who on this forum hasn’t seen a cop watch a crime occur and do nothing about it? Or sought the assistance of a cop shortly after a crime has occurred only to find them uninterested in helping?

Have you ever seen a cop choosing not to intervene in a shooting? because that was what the previous point was related about. I have seen cops choosing not to pull over some people going 10 over the speed limit, that is a crime right? And no, I haven't seen ever a cop choosing not to intervene for a significant crime as a shooting or robbery.

Rick Prieto wrote: ↑

Nov 26, 2024

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Nov 26, 2024

The police choose not to intervene all the time. Who on this forum hasn’t seen a cop watch a crime occur and do nothing about it? Or sought the assistance of a cop shortly after a crime has occurred only to find them uninterested in helping?

Have you ever seen a cop choosing not to intervene in a shooting? because that was what the previous point was related about. I have seen cops choosing not to pull over some people going 10 over the speed limit, that is a crime right? And no, I haven't seen ever a cop choosing not to intervene for a significant crime as a shooting or robbery.

I have seen them choose not to investigate shooting and other gun-involved crimes, yes.

I think a lot of stupid people have no idea what they're talking about, that's for sure.

I guess after having a few relatively quiet months in the city it was only a matter of time of an explosion of homicides & November has seemed to have delivered. Reality is people aren’t going to move to a city of 250,000 with over 150+ slashing’s a year. Theres needs to be a goal in decreasing by more than half. Any loss of life is tragic & sad & the death of these people shouldn’t be used as a statistic. These are St.Louis biggest obstacles the lack of a vibrant downtown where people feel unsafe a continued decaying inner city & a homicide rate that won’t stop. I’m truly hoping this is just a fluke & we’ll continue on a trajectory of declining homicides


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