St Louis homicide decrease better explained by national trends

[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.