Police insisted they couldn’t provide the crime numbers. The Post-Dispatch showed otherwise, and also revealed the city had shared the data with insiders.
Three years ago, the St. Louis police department abruptly turned off its public spigot of detailed geographic crime data. It’s left community groups and researchers in the lurch.
The FBI report for the first quarter of 2023 contained artificially low totals for St. Louis after the city police department failed to submit crime data for more than three