Former St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom has been tapped as the Interim Public Safety Director Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 12:38 PM CDT April 23, 2021
ST. LOUIS Newly-elected St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has named key members of her Public Safety team – and one of them will be making more money than her.
Former St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom has been tapped as the Interim Public Safety Director – which means all of the city s public safety apparatus including the fire chief, police chief along with the Division of Corrections Commissioner and the Emergency Communications Division will answer to him.
To take on this task in the most violent city in the country, Isom will be paid $218,000 annually – the same salary as his predecessor, retired Judge Jimmie Edwards.
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Who is at fault?
St. Louis has two jails.
The Criminal Justice Center, which is the site of the riot, and the Medium Security Institution, also known as the Workhouse.
Activists have been calling on city leaders to close The Workhouse for months.
In a Feb. 16 email, Frank wrote, “It appears the vacancies were being held for possible closure of MSI.”
In that email, Frank was telling Comptroller Darlene Green he had just received a request to fill 72 Division of Corrections positions from the city’s Director of Operations, Todd Waelterman.
That was the first request to hire anyone Frank said he received for close to a year the last time the division was almost fully staffed.
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