02.22.2009 9:00 pm
How would you put an extra cop to work?
Larry Williams/Post-Dispatch
On March 3, voters in St. Louis’ Shaw Neighborhood will decide a local tax initiative. Actually, “hyper local” better describes it.
The tax would apply in just 1/100th of the city, the 54 blocks that make up the neighborhood just to…
Crime was down in the city of St. Louis in 2007 — violent crime falling 11 percent and property crimes down 17 percent in 2007. No small accomplishment, even if violent crime now appears to be on the rise.
