By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, February 04, 2008 at 5:07 PM
A group of local elected officials gathered in front of City Hall today to call attention to a bill in the Missouri legislature which seeks to give the City of St. Louis control over its police department—control which was taken away over 100 years ago during the time of the Civil War. Labels: Police, State_House, State_Senate
Those in attendance included: State Senator Maida Coleman, State Reps Talibdin El-Amin, Rodney Hubbard, and Jeanette Mott Oxford, Aldermen Terry Kennedy, Jeffrey Boyd, and Frank Williamson.
The bill is SB 785.
Earlier Story:
Local Control of Police Debated in Senate Hearing
7 Comments:
Local control needs to happen eventually.
But I don't think it will get very far unless it's packaged with some charter reform to get the support of the central corridor. Irene Smith once made the corresponding case: no charter reform unless it includes local control of the police.
2/04/2008 6:22 PM
Say Yes to Citizens Oversight of the St. Louis Police Department.
2/04/2008 6:24 PM
Did he say something about Animal Control Identification? How did that get involved? Is this serious or is it an added earmark?
2/04/2008 8:50 PM
We need to stop this "taxation without representation" situation!
2/04/2008 10:37 PM
So he is trade off his vote for animals in exchange for the men and women of the police department?
This is political corruption at it's worst. I would be for City Control when they reduce the Board of Alderman from 28 to 7. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Appointments, promotions, transfers would create a much greater political animal than 4 citizens of the City and the Mayor controlling the operation of the Department.
Exactly what we need in St. Louis, people like Maida-Coleman and Jamala Rogers, who call Kevin Johnson a "hero of the streets" for killing Sgt. McEntee in Kirkwood, running the largest police department in the midwest.
2/05/2008 11:48 PM
The people at this press conference have always secretly supported Mayor Slay, and they have met with him privately in his office. They have not spoken out against anything that Mayor Slay has done since they have been in office, except for Alderman Kennedy.
Mayor Slay absolutely controls these politicians that were present at this press conference 100%. That is why they knew that Mayor Slay supports local control of the police department.
Mayor Slay would end up controlling the police department by himself, but he is using these politicians to get it done.
Mayor Slay sent Charles Bryson to meet with these politicians behind closed doors and these politicians have been offered a sweet deal. Don't trust these politicians at all, because this whole thing smells funny. Maybe its the part about the farm animals that makes it smell funny, but it smells very funny!
A lot of respected politicians were missing from this press conference that are truly trustworthy, where were they. These politicians are ready to get local control of the police to begin total corruption. Imagine local politicians controlling the police with absolute power.
Mayor Slay's confidence about having support in the black community makes sense now, these are the black politicians that support him by any means necessary!
2/06/2008 1:37 AM
Local control of the STLPD would be the worst thing that could ever happen to the STLPD. The Board of Alderman are not qualified to run anything. Hiring ppractices would result in officers being unable to perform the duties. New hires would be the relatives of these alderman and hiring standards would be lowered to the level of disgrace. Promotion testing would be eliminated. The uneducated will be patrolling your streets with criminal records and now guns. Crime will esculate at an alarming rate. Residents will leave the city and chaos will be in charge.
2/07/2008 11:09 AM
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