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In St. Louis, Mo., the worst-in-country murder rate is at a 50-year high, the police department has nearly 100 unfilled jobs, and the mayor wants to defund the department and shut down a city jail.
KSDK Inmates at the St. Louis Justice Center gather around a third-floor window during an uprising on April 4. City leaders say they hope the changes will address concerns and complaints from inmates. St. Louis officials say steps to address complaints about conditions at the St. Louis Justice Center and the Medium Security Institution known as the Workhouse are underway, including hiring a new food service provider at the Justice Center. The city . “We certainly had complaints about the quality of food, and we want to address that,” Isom said. “One of the issues is that the food is p...
St. Louis Mayor Looks to Reform Police Operations and Crime Mayor Tishaura Jones wants to make change by defunding the police and jails and redirecting the funds to social workers, affordable housing, homeless aid and civil rights litigators. May 03, 2021 • (TNS) — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, from her first snowy April day in office, has signaled her administration will bring a fundamental shift in the way City Hall addresses police operations and crime in St. Louis, Mo. "I stand here before you today resolved to make change," Jones said in her inaugura...
The Daily Universe FILE – In this Friday, April 19, 2019 file photo, a gay pride rainbow flag flies with the U.S. flag in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan. In 2021, the Equality Act that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ people is a top priority of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. Yet as the Equality Act heads to the Senate after winning House approval, its prospects seem bleak — to a large extent because of opposition from conservative religious leaders. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) A sweeping bill that would extend f...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, Republican state lawmakers concerned about the possibility of new federal gun control laws aren't waiting to react.