There will be more emails out next week from the other side, the alders are united on this issue.
Great, release all the emails. There are now two issues. Who gets to appoint the Sheriff and who gets to take the fall for committing city funds to a non-preferred supplier without prior authorization. I expect that supplier will seek payment for work completed regardless. I'm sure alders are united on the first but will scatter when AG opens an investigation to the second.
If anything was revealed in the last 8 months of shenanigans, it was revealed that whoever is sheriff is actually meaningful. And it is a pretty big issue democratically, since the sheriff is an elected office and any new appointment will not have voter approval the way the previous sheriffs have.addxb2 wrote:loladdxb2 wrote:I hope so. It'd be cool if all three parties (Mayor, BOA, State Attorney) could just agree to keep Hayden and mediate behind closed doors for future policy updates. It's a story that will eat up so much time if not. Darlene Green received a check by mistake and the Post is still writing about it. I read each article and all I get is that a weird employment circumstance created a clerical error.
It’s bonkers to me that anyone cares this deeply about appointing an interim Sheriff. Especially in a place where the Sheriff is a step above irrelevant. This has gone from nothing to Megan Green & friends breaking the City’s sourcing procedures.
To do it with a sue and investigation hungry Attorney General in proximity is crazy!
The office still needs to be abolished though and merged with the PD.
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Mayors CoS doing some clean up on aisle 5. The request went were it was supposed and for who knows why, the comptroller sent to the letter to supplyaddxb2 wrote: ↑4:26 PM - Jan 01Great, release all the emails. There are now two issues. Who gets to appoint the Sheriff and who gets to take the fall for committing city funds to a non-preferred supplier without prior authorization. I expect that supplier will seek payment for work completed regardless. I'm sure alders are united on the first but will scatter when AG opens an investigation to the second.
No homicides in the first 3 days but 3 fatal car crashes (last year we had 48, lowest in a while)
St.Louis finished 2025 w/ about 3,482 violent crimes, lowest total in 6 decades.
A 11.3% decrease from last year (3,928)
2025: 3,482
2015: 5,763
2005: 8,323
1995: 12,452
1995-2025 change: -72%
Per capita (100k)
2025: 1,222
2015: 1,822
2005: 2,360
1995: 3,376
1995-2025: -64%
A 11.3% decrease from last year (3,928)
2025: 3,482
2015: 5,763
2005: 8,323
1995: 12,452
1995-2025 change: -72%
Per capita (100k)
2025: 1,222
2015: 1,822
2005: 2,360
1995: 3,376
1995-2025: -64%
Great to hear.
It'll never be low enough or declining fast enough for the internet and suburban peanut gallery sadly.
What would really help the region is merger so we'd get off the lists so it will be one less impediment for people outside the region looking to move or invest in it.
It'll never be low enough or declining fast enough for the internet and suburban peanut gallery sadly.
What would really help the region is merger so we'd get off the lists so it will be one less impediment for people outside the region looking to move or invest in it.
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^I'm hoping that effort to combine crime metrics bears fruit - that alone will be 'conversation changing' and will be so nice to add to the last 5 years of progress
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This is coming from this article — and apparently Bob O’Loughlin has more insight to it…
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... stats.html
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-lou ... ics-method
Short answer, it seems, is that under the current FBI system (NIBRS), city and county already submit detailed crime data separately. What’s being discussed is changing how those submissions are aggregated and published for national crime rate comparisons — potentially combining city + county totals for reporting purposes. It’s a statistical/reporting change, not an operational one, which is why they’re talking with state and federal officials about it.
If you don't click through here's Tishaura's blurb on the matter too:
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... stats.html
I did a bit more digging — here’s a better article with some really interesting nuance:“A hotel executive says he's working with state and federal officials to change how St. Louis' crime statistics are reported, arguing the current method unfairly makes the city look more dangerous than it actually is.”
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-lou ... ics-method
Short answer, it seems, is that under the current FBI system (NIBRS), city and county already submit detailed crime data separately. What’s being discussed is changing how those submissions are aggregated and published for national crime rate comparisons — potentially combining city + county totals for reporting purposes. It’s a statistical/reporting change, not an operational one, which is why they’re talking with state and federal officials about it.
If you don't click through here's Tishaura's blurb on the matter too:
"All that requires is the city and the county combining their crime numbers and then sending them to the FBI," Jones said. "It doesn't even require a (government) merger, because they say, 'Well if we do a city-county merger then our crime stats will change.' No, all we got to do is write to the (Missouri Highway Patrol) and ask them to combine our numbers." The crime statistics issue figured prominently in Better Together's city-county merger attempt, which collapsed in 2019.
I'm skeptical it's that simple. Otherwise Dooley and Slay would have done it 15 years ago when talk of this came up then.
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^yeah I'm not saying its simple... ✌
The way it kind of sounds to me is that "its who you know" so if Bob has a favor to cash in at the state/FBI maybe he can get someone to sign off on that request... in a way an intrenched Dem leader might not be able to? idk, I guess we'll see.
The way it kind of sounds to me is that "its who you know" so if Bob has a favor to cash in at the state/FBI maybe he can get someone to sign off on that request... in a way an intrenched Dem leader might not be able to? idk, I guess we'll see.
Game changer for STL, IMO. Imagine googling STL and crime isn't the 1st thing that comes up....
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^for real... its a bigger issue than we all think, and I think we all think its a big issue, lol.
City terrorized by suburban criminals again, yet we can't count their population when figuring the "St. Louis" crime rate.
StlToday - St. Louis' Barr Branch library closes due to damage from burglary
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... cc382.html
StlToday - St. Louis' Barr Branch library closes due to damage from burglary
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... cc382.html
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Crime is strange; after a bloody final week of 2025, the first 7 days of 2026 had 1 homicide and even that one may have actually happened in 2025. A woman went missing on Dec 29th and was found on Jan 2nd
Nearly half through January and still at 2. January averages 15 over the last ten years.
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Interesting, the first homicide of 2026 got moved to 2025 as I speculated above
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First three months last year were really low (9,5,9), we gotta have a good start to the year!addxb2 wrote: ↑11:30 PM - Jan 14Nearly half through January and still at 2. January averages 15 over the last ten years.
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6 homicides in January is the lowest total for the month since 2011.
Last 5 Januarys;
2025: 9
2024: 20
2023: 11
2022: 16
2021: 19
33% decease from last year
60% vs last 5 year average
62% vs 10 year average
Of the 6: 3 were acquaintances, 1 relative, 1 sibling & 1 tbd
Last 5 Januarys;
2025: 9
2024: 20
2023: 11
2022: 16
2021: 19
33% decease from last year
60% vs last 5 year average
62% vs 10 year average
Of the 6: 3 were acquaintances, 1 relative, 1 sibling & 1 tbd
There is coordinated effort to smear cities as dangerous.
The Economist - London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe
https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/ ... ou-believe
The Economist - London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe
https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/ ... ou-believe
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I'm pretty sure the police just killed someone on my block, 5700 Waterman. More later.
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^Context per the police department.
Police were responding to a domestic call on the 5700 block of Waterman. Upon arriving, a man and woman were arguing and the man shot the woman, killing her. Police then shot the man and he’s in critical, unstable condition. A real shame that the woman died in this situation. Sounds like a potential murder and then suicide-by-cop attempt, which could still be successful.
Police were responding to a domestic call on the 5700 block of Waterman. Upon arriving, a man and woman were arguing and the man shot the woman, killing her. Police then shot the man and he’s in critical, unstable condition. A real shame that the woman died in this situation. Sounds like a potential murder and then suicide-by-cop attempt, which could still be successful.
If only the woman had a gun, this could have been avoided.
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I have reason to doubt the police account. Among other things, there was a woman in the street screaming "the police killed my sister."Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑5:04 AM - Feb 03^Context per the police department.
Police were responding to a domestic call on the 5700 block of Waterman. Upon arriving, a man and woman were arguing and the man shot the woman, killing her. Police then shot the man and he’s in critical, unstable condition. A real shame that the woman died in this situation. Sounds like a potential murder and then suicide-by-cop attempt, which could still be successful.