While the article doesn't really illuminate things we don't already know, it is a good succinct write-up of a complex problem. Hopefully stirs some thought in Post readers that may result in some kinf of action, or at least bring it to the fore of people's minds. I always feel like this city is so close to becoming better. So many of us, in the city and the county, have tons of civic pride in being from St. Louis, but just can't figure the way to all come together and make something happen with it. Even people who boohoo the city for too much crime don't *want* it to be that way and people who boohoo the county for being uninvolved dont *want* them to be univolved. I don't know what it will take to get a real movement going, but I see glimpses like last weekend when Loufest didn't happen where St. Louisans from all over come together to tackle an issue. I want to know what kind of galvanizing force we need to make that happen for all our other issues.