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Police Accountability
St. Louis police use force more against Blacks, study finds
ST. LOUIS (AP) — City police used force against Black people more than three times as often as they did…
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Police Accountability
St. Louis police fail to report crime data for months
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Changes in the way St. Louis police record crime statistics have prevented the department from publicly…
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News
Aldermen set to debate surveillance accountability bill
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is one of about a dozen departments nationwide that have a “real time crime…
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Police Accountability
Limits on St. Louis police aren’t permanent, appeals panel says
A judge’s 2017 ruling limiting how St. Louis police officers can control protesters was meant to be a temporary order…
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Opinion
Jaco: Bad verdict. Bad cops. Bad police force
No group in America has done a better job of defunding the police than the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.…
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Police Accountability
No convictions for ex-officers in undercover protest beating
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No convictions were returned for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black…
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Crime
911 callers will find better procedures, police say
ST. LOUIS – People who call 911 in the city will find a few changes to the system as of…
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Crime
SLMPD officers will be wearing body cameras soon
ST. LOUIS (AP) — City police officers will soon be wearing body cameras. The police department expects to begin using…
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Crime
Police seek to get hundreds of stolen items back to owners
ST. LOUIS (AP) — After a recent theft arrest, St. Louis police are trying to find the owners of as…
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Crime
City police rack up $14 million in overtime, audit finds
ST. LOUIS (AP) — City police spent nearly $14 million on overtime while struggling to fill 100 vacant positions, an…
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Featured
Missouri bill to drop police residency rule heads to governor
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis police, firefighters and other first responders no longer would have to live in that…
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Crime
Officer’s death adds urgency to police residency bill
CITY HALL – The death of St. Louis police Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon after being shot Saturday night is “just…
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Featured
New city law cracks down on police use of force
CITY HALL – A new St. Louis law on use of force by city police officers really only codifies policy…
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Opinion
Jaco: A toxic culture in black and blue
Detective Sergeant Heather Taylor is black, and a woman, and a cop, in that order. In her years on the…
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