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August 2008 ArchivesI apologize for not having the detailed records in this blog. I had technical problems loading them into the system. I will fix it tommorrow morning. Thanks for your patience. Prosecutors are committed to putting criminals behind bars, but when witnesses refuse to testify cases often fall apart. In fact, the lack of victim/witness cooperation is the biggest reason why cases are dropped in the city of St. Louis. <...Gordon Baum is an angry white man. The 68-year old retired attorney says he's sick and tired of whites being blamed for the problems experienced by some minorities. "It's not our fault," Baum told me several times during an interview at his St. Charles home. Baum, who says he's blind in one eye and half-blind in the other, is hardly an imposing figure as he wal... Hate is an evil seed that can kill everything we value in life. It's such a dangerous thing that there are special laws to focus on crimes committed because someone decided to hurt people or property based on that hate. According to the FBI, there were 9,080 hate crimes in 2006, the most recent statistics available on the government website. The federal government has a Hat... If you got a 2-and-a-half percent pay raise and then heard that a co-worker got a 25% pay raise, you think that you'd been unfairly treated and would be pretty mad about it. There are two things that hit me immediately when we drove through the State Park neighborhood a few days ago. First, I had never seen so much gang graffiti in one neighborhood. I've seen plenty of gang graffiti, including areas in Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis and other cities, but never so many spray painted symbols and messages in one small area. Second, I had never seen so many threatening looking dogs in one neighborhood... William "Mikey" Rayford was gunned down two months ago on the streets of St. Louis. He was 19. Mikey's murder barely registered as a news event amid ongoing gang violence, but it devastated his family. "When I lost my son, for the first time in my life I didn't want to be in that neighborhood," Mikey's mom Sharon told me. "Now, I'm afraid. I'm afraid. It's sad that I would be afraid of the kids and the people in tha...
Keith Williams was playing cards with friends in an East St. Louis store when a gunman repeatedly fired bullets through the outside wall killing Williams and wounding two of his friends. "There was a pain so deep that it's beyond describing," his sister Denice told me. The shooting reflects an epidemic of violent crime in urban America. "I don't think there's a measure that could say just how bad this... |
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