On the evening of Aug. 25, 2008, Jennifer Hall went out to celebrate her 36th birthday. As she walked toward a Chicago supermarket, Ms. Hall encountered a man who wanted a cigarette. She refused and was beaten into unconsciousness.
It…
There was something especially sickening about three young men being gunned down on Market Street early last Friday.
According to news reports, they had just left a nightclub called Club Society on South 21st Street. Their vehicle was stopped at…
No politician ever got into trouble for wanting to build more jail cells or enacting tougher criminal punishments. Few prosecutors ever were punished for seeking a maximum sentence, nor judges for throwing the book at a defendant.
Locking up convicts…
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Thus did Franklin Roosevelt begin…
Everybody knows something about crime prevention: Don’t leave your iPod on the car seat or your bike on the front walk. Keep your garage locked. Join neighbors in being alert to what’s happening on your block.
Suppressing crime, on the…
Metro President Bob Baer says that keeping the public safe from crime on the MetroLink line “isn’t just a priority, it is the priority.”
“We’ll spend $10 million this year. We will spend more if we have to, and make…
The beat goes on with local violent crime: A 66-year-old Belleville woman was stabbed to death Friday. A 49-year-old man was gunned down at midnight Saturday near Sherman Park on the city’s north side. A U.S. Park Service…
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A map charting homicides in the city of St. Louis since 2005 recently was posted on this site, and when you look at the map a host of possibilities come to mind:
St. Louis is a good starting point…
Some people think crime declined during the 1990s because of aggressive police work, tough sentencing guidelines and the construction of more prison cells.
But some scientists now have a more provocative explanation, one with big implications for St. Louis and…
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I was invited to observe the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s “CompStat” meeting Thursday before last.
It is a weekly gathering of command staff in which everyone reports on what happened during the preceding…
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