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- In a year when many U.S. cities saw a substantial increase in killings, St. Louis bucked the trend in 2021 — a dose of good news for a city that for decades has had among the worst homicide rates in the nation. The number of killings in St. Louis dropped 25% to 196 in 2021 compared to 263 in 2020.
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Dec 29, 2021 · St. Louis, which in 2020 had its highest murder rate in 50 years, has recorded 190 homicides as of Dec. 29, which is 73 less than the 263 the year prior. And it’s not just that the numbers are ...
- A Shifting Definition of Murder
- A Valuable Life
- The Image of A City
FBI crime reporting standards instruct police departments to count as a murder any death that results from a fight, argument, quarrel, assault or commission of a crime. The FBI defines a justifiable homicide more narrowly: a situation where an officer on duty kills a perpetrator of a serious crime or when a private citizen kills a perpetrator durin...
In October 2020, St. Louis police responded to a report of a car crash and found Staveion Durham shot in the chest. Police said that they were told that Durham and others in the car had shot at each other. Three months after the incident, prosecutors charged one of the men in the crash, Marlon Hampton, with second-degree murder and other charges. D...
Beyond the question of how killings are counted lies another question: Do these judgment calls about how to classify a killing influence the accuracy of a figure that people use to measure a city’s level of violence? The fatal shooting of Jason Dudley on Jan. 2, 2020, goes to the heart of that question. The day after Jeffrey Brown Jr.’s car was sto...
Jan 9, 2022 · At least 388 people were killed in 2021 in the St. Louis area through Dec. 31. At least 295 men and 59 women were killed. At least 30 of the victims were children. This is a previous edition of...
Jan 6, 2022 · 2021’S homicide rate adjusted for the city’s shrinking population, which is in danger of falling below 300,000 residents, is down drastically from last year’s rate of 87% per 100,000...
- Andy Banker
Dec 31, 2021 · LOUIS — Homicides in St. Louis dropped roughly 25% in 2021, returning to pre-pandemic levels. Experts said the 2020 spike in violence was driven largely by the pandemic and high tensions ...
- Rhyan Henson
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Jan 13, 2022 · In a year when many U.S. cities saw a substantial increase in killings, St. Louis bucked the trend in 2021 — a dose of good news for a city that for decades has had among the worst homicide rates in the nation. The number of killings in St. Louis dropped 25% to 196 in 2021 compared to 263 in 2020.
Jan 13, 2022 · In a year when many U.S. cities saw a substantial increase in killings, St. Louis bucked the trend in 2021 — a dose of good news for a city that for decades has had among the worst homicide rates...
