St. Louis police groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the City of St. Louis, alleging the recent passage of a civilian oversight bill violates state law.
Two officers, who were not identified, said Allen Robinson, 27, held them at gunpoint and attempted to carjack them on March 19. Surveillance footage shows otherwise.
Idea to divert funding away from the police department floated during Board of Estimate and Apportionment meeting Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 8:07 PM CDT April 23, 2021
ST. LOUIS How much money could the city divert into social service programs to address the root causes of crime by eliminating the approximately 150 vacant police officer positions from the city’s budget?
That’s a question the Board of Estimate and Apportionment asked Budget Director Paul Payne to research Friday during its meeting.
The board includes Mayor Tishaura Jones, Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed and Comptroller Darlene Green.
About 40 people made public comments during the two-hour meeting, including many who called for the elimination of the entire police budget.
Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:10 AM click to enlarge DANNY WICENTOWSKI St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones finished Tuesday s primary with 57% of approvals, a commanding win. Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer will face each other in the April 6 general election to be St. Louis s next mayor, but Tuesday s unprecedented primary was bigger than just the candidates individual victories. The election was also an experiment: As the
RFT detailed earlier this week, St. Louis s rollout of approval voting has been shadowed by measures of both anticipation and concern, and no one could predict how voters would behave when given the option to approve of as many candidates as they wished. One researcher described