Missouri's St. Louis Police Department lost over 17 police officers last month and has only 912 positions filled out of a city budget set for 1,224 officers.
An entire district of St. Louis was left defenseless on Wednesday after the only two officers assigned to patrol the area called in sick, CBS4 KMOV reported. Although the department designed each district to be patrolled by ten beat cars, the department had only two officers available to work the third district for the afternoon […]