following a football event. the next day, city leaders announced $25,000 in reward money will be offered to the end of the month to motivate tipsters in any of the recent homicides of area children. >> brian: can you believe this? crimes like this are routine and some of america's most liberal cities. in st. louis, 12 kids have died over the last six months. host of "the buck sexton show," buck sexton is with us. buck, all these kids are black. i have the number 13. so far, st. louis since 2015, has the highest murder rates of any major city in america. what's going on? >> overall, violence in america has been dropping for years, which is a great story, but there are these specific areas, generally democrat-controlled urban areas, where you not only has a disparity with the decrease in crime and the rest of the country you actually have crime rates rising. st. louis is one of them. violent crime in st. louis is up markedly over the last ten years. new orleans is another city, chicago is high, baltimore, i was in west baltimore just a few