R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch
In the past 11 months, nine current or former St. Louis police officers have been charged with federal or state crimes. Four others have been publicly charged by the department with falsifying search warrant information or police reports.
Federal authorities…
Officer Owen Hill and "Dakota" of the St. Louis mounted patrol make some new friends in 2000. (Post-Dispatch photo by Dawn Majors)
Generations of St. Louis children have fond memories of meeting a mounted St. Louis police officer in Forest Park.…
Emily Rasinski | Post-Dispatch
Not long ago, a wise old cop at St. Louis Police headquarters on Clark Avenue offered this assessment of the recent troubles at the department to which he has devoted his career:
“The romance of the job is…
The FBI raided Metropolitan Towing in August as part of its investigation into city police practices. (Post-Dispatch/Robert Cohen)
It has been a rough year for the St. Louis Police Department. Most crime is down, but homicides are up. And in too many…
Post-Dispatch photo by J.B. Forbes
Daniel Isom takes office as St. Louis’ 33rd chief of police confronting many vexing problems:
The department is in the middle of a scandal and a federal investigation into a towing contractor that may have given officers…
Debbie lives just a block from where it happened, but didn’t realize at the time that a 20-year-old man had been gunned down on the street the night before. “We didn’t hear a thing,” she wrote in a note on the…
