JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate will once again consider whether to place the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department under state control.
St. Louis' mayor and police chief announced 7% across-the-board raises for city police officers. But to do it, they cut 124 empty officer positions.
"The 24-year-old stated he was riding the bus, when an unknown male approached him and attempted to steal his bag with all of his medicine."
The officers are no longer employed by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Reported bodycam footage captured the conversation between the cops.
St. Louis officials say that crime remains on a downward trend in the city, speaking Tuesday on an 11-year low in homicides, reductions in top-level FBI-reported crimes, and ongoing initiatives to work toward progress in combating crime.
Two former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers were caught by their own department ignoring their call of duty.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department renewed its call for the public’s help in finding a missing woman. On December 22, police released photos of 26-year-old Daja. She went missing from her home in the 3700 block of Texas in the Gravois Park neighborhood around 11 a.
Two former St. Louis police officers were fired after footage revealed they refused to help a dying man because they were about to be off.
A 7-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a Midtown hotel pool and is now in critical condition; police investigate the incident.
The family of a St. Louis man who went missing two months ago is asking for the public’s help to find their loved one.
ST. LOUIS — Police are looking for three suspects wanted for a deadly shooting in the Bevo Mill neighborhood of south St. Louis. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been investigating the shooting, which happened on Dec. 11 at the area of Gravois Avenue and Bates Street.
When Mayor Tishaura Jones was sworn in at City Hall in April 2021, she said she was dedicated to reducing crime, especially the murder rate, in the city of St. Louis. When Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Tracy was hired as police chief in 2022,