Comments on: North County St. Louis: “Why Does a City With 600 Residents Need 14 Cops?”

By: Police and prosecution roundup - Overlawyered

Police and prosecution roundup - Overlawyered — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:30:10 +0000

[…] in Ferguson and St. Louis County [Julie Lurie and Katie Rose Quandt, Mother Jones; earlier here and here] St. Louis suburbs with now-familiar names agree to traffic-cam settlement […]

By: ras

ras — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:50:08 +0000

Pent up anger and distrust between the residents and the police? Lack of respect for those enforcing the regs? However did we get to this state?

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:57:14 +0000

Therein lies a problem. It’s all perfectly legal too. The mayor should suggest to the public that safety is of the utmost importance and 15 miles per hour would save just one person and be worth it. Bet it would save at least one job.

By: C

Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:00:16 +0000

A city of 834 that covers about a quarter of a square mile has 9 officers and wrote 4,784 traffic tickets plus 1,097 ordinance violations in 2013. (They have a 20 mph speed limit, and two traffic cameras.) So in 2014 the mayor then tells the police that they aren’t writing ENOUGH tickets, and says that if they don’t pick it up, he may not be able to continue to provide them with a safe and pleasant work place.

This is just wrong on so many levels.