/tags/homicide-stats Homicide Stats en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:15:44 GMT /law-order/2025-02-20/homicides-in-east-st-louis-fell-again-in-2024-illinois-state-police-say In 2024, the Metro East city recorded 20 homicides. At the most recent peak in 2017, that same figure stood at 37. Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:15:44 GMT /law-order/2025-02-20/homicides-in-east-st-louis-fell-again-in-2024-illinois-state-police-say Will Bauer /law-order/2025-01-15/crime-st-louis-down-15-percent-technology-local-initiatives St. Louis had its lowest number of homicides last year since 2013, and overall crime is down 15% since 2023. Officials say the department’s use of technology is helping get people who commit crimes off the streets. Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:00:00 GMT /law-order/2025-01-15/crime-st-louis-down-15-percent-technology-local-initiatives Andrea Y. Henderson /law-order/2023-07-17/st-louis-police-have-failed-to-solve-nearly-60-of-homicides-committed-since-2017 Newly released data reveals no resolution for families of more than 750 homicide victims. Police refused to release homicide clearance data, so we sued to find out. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2023-07-17/st-louis-police-have-failed-to-solve-nearly-60-of-homicides-committed-since-2017 Rachel Lippmann, Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu /law-order/2022-03-31/st-louis-murder-total-has-fallen-but-some-killings-went-uncounted St. Louis officials are celebrating a big drop in murders while the city’s police classify more and more killings as “justifiable homicides” instead. Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:00:00 GMT /law-order/2022-03-31/st-louis-murder-total-has-fallen-but-some-killings-went-uncounted Jeremy Kohler | ProPublica, Tom Scheck /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-02-22/homicides-wake-we-want-to-tell-the-story-of-188-homicides-by-telling-the-story-of-one Today, © 2024 �������� released its series on homicide in the city of St. Louis after months of preparation. The series takes a look at homicide… Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:47:25 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-02-22/homicides-wake-we-want-to-tell-the-story-of-188-homicides-by-telling-the-story-of-one Kelly Moffitt /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-12-30/2015-in-review-public-health-problems-that-plague-the-region-and-social-services-combatting-them Reporters Durrie Bouscaren and Camille Phillips have covered a wide variety of issues in the region in the last year. They joined host Don Marsh to… Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:55:27 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-12-30/2015-in-review-public-health-problems-that-plague-the-region-and-social-services-combatting-them Mary Edwards /government-politics-issues/2015-12-06/white-crosses-in-north-st-louis-county-bear-witness-to-regions-homicide-count If you drive down Page Avenue between now and the end of the year, you’ll see row upon row of small white crosses lined up in front of Mount Beulah… Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:48:33 GMT /government-politics-issues/2015-12-06/white-crosses-in-north-st-louis-county-bear-witness-to-regions-homicide-count /2015-12-06/treating-gun-violence-as-public-health-issue-easier-said-than-done The nationwide debate about gun control, mass shootings, and violent crime was once again jump-started in the wake of recent massacres at a county center in California and at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado that left several people dead.But here in St. Louis, officials are concerned with a different type of gun violence — the kind that happens almost routinely and usually takes one life at a time. Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:45:04 GMT /2015-12-06/treating-gun-violence-as-public-health-issue-easier-said-than-done Kameel Stanley, Tim Lloyd, Brent Jones /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-06-03/joyce-if-everyone-is-annoyed-with-me-im-doing-my-job Circuit attorney Jennifer Joyce has been in the news quite a bit recently. Her decision not to charge a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer in the… Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:28:07 GMT /show/st-louis-on-the-air/2015-06-03/joyce-if-everyone-is-annoyed-with-me-im-doing-my-job Rachel Lippmann /government-politics-issues/2013-02-20/local-control-heightens-significance-of-crime-fighting-efforts-in-mayoral-contest This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 20, 2013 - Crime has been such a longstanding issue in St. Louis that the city even rates its… Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:54:14 GMT /government-politics-issues/2013-02-20/local-control-heightens-significance-of-crime-fighting-efforts-in-mayoral-contest Jo Mannies