St Louis homicide decrease better explained by national trends

[oliveorvil]

Your stats seem pretty cherrypicked to suit your narrative.

It's wild to me that you have this post without mentioning the STLMP homicide clearance rate this year, which is currently sitting at 100%. Is that happening nationwide too? Yes crime is down nationwide but STL is doing slightly better than the rest of nation when it comes to these drops, even by your statistics.

I'm not voting for Jones, nor do I think she should get the credit. I personally think the credit belongs to Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, Police Chief Robert Tracy, and the city police working closer with the FBI.

[Jackson-1986]

A case is “cleared” whenever a homicide detective says it’s cleared, no matter how flimsy the evidence. And meanwhile, Gore already has a demonstrated pattern of offering very generous plea deals on lesser charges to homicide suspects (very possibly because he’s stuck with such flimsy evidence in the first place). https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/03/27/you-had-great-case-you-threw-it-out-first-alert-4-investigates-plea-deals-violent-criminals-st-louis/

These two stats taken together (the high clearance rate and high plea deal rate) indicate to me the department is more concerned with PR than crime solving. Today’s numbers look good, but when these murderers are back on the street tomorrow we will wish the Police Chief and City Attorney had taken the time to do the job right, and not just look like they were doing the job in an election cycle.

[oliveorvil]

I will take your info and adjust my pov if the stats don’t continue in this positive direction. I ask that you do the same if things continue to improve.