In St. Louis, Mo., the worst-in-country murder rate is at a 50-year high, the police department has nearly 100 unfilled jobs, and the mayor wants to defund the department and shut down a city jail.
St. Louis' Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor campaigned on a promise to enact progressive criminal justice reforms.
St. Louis had 87 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2020, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the worst rate in the country.
It’s now at its highest rate in 50 years – even as the population has dwindled in that same time period.
Jones announced in April she would cut $4 million from the police department and reallocate the funds to an affordable housing fund and the Civil Rights Enforcement Agency.
St. Louis' Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor campaigned on a promise to enact progressive criminal justice reforms.
St. Louis had 87 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2020, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the worst rate in the country.
It’s now at its highest rate in 50 years – even as the population has dwindled in that same time period.
Jones announced in April she would cut $4 million from the police department and reallocate the funds to an affordable housing fund and the Civil Rights Enforcement Agency.