With a situation this grim, the city desperately needs competent and determined crime-fighters, but St. Louis Circuit Attorney (chief prosecutor) Kimberly Gardner remains focused not on law and order but on social justice—and on bizarre self-aggrandizement. During her short tenure, the circuit attorney’s office has had more than 100 percent turnover, the equivalent of losing 470 years of collective experience. In January 2020, Gardner filed a federal civil rights suit against the City of St. Louis, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and the St. Louis police union, alleging a racist conspiracy to oust her from office, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Gardner soon appeared on PBS to declare St. Louis “ground zero” for criminal-justice reform efforts and likened any attempt to hold her accountable to a “modern-day night ride.”
Do not be surprise the St Louis Gateway arch is destroyed one day.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-trav-gateway-arch-kamin-0624-story.html
“ts crime rate consistently places it within the top-ten most homicidal metropolises”
There was a move last year to try to bring St. Louis City back into surrounding St. Louis County or rather the other way round to try get more money for the city, but that went no where. The people didn’t flee to the County to have the City drag them back in.
Went to a conference in St. Louis some 10 or 15 yeas or so ago and was not happy with the venue. Seemed like they rolled up the streets at 6 and everyone went home. Only a couple of decent local places to eat. I did like the Cardinals stadium though. Well back when I still was a fan of major league sports. So much is going to pot.