Law enforcement

Ashley Johnson came to St. Louis from the FBI’s human resources division in Washington, DC. She began her career with the bureau in 2007 and spent much of her time at offices in the South.

If passed, Amendment 6 would allow Missouri to fund salaries and pensions for elected county sheriffs and prosecutors through court fees. It was placed on the Nov. 5 ballot by the General Assembly to reverse a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that found the fees unconstitutional.

The man, known only as Sniper 1, fatally shot two-year-old Clesslynn Crawford during a 2022 standoff. He is still working for the Joplin Police Department.

Since the early 2000s, health care systems have used technology originally made for law enforcement to combat misuse of prescription meds — yet the opioid epidemic continues to worsen.

Mike McLively of the Giffords Center for Violence Intervention said the city needs to improve overall safety by investing in programs that support mental health and housing security.

The MakeWay app sends out a notification whenever there’s an emergency vehicle nearby with the goal of giving drivers more time to move over or stop.

St. Louis police issued a record number of court summonses for illegal dumping in 2022. Some predominantly Black neighborhoods bear the brunt of the problem.

Reports of impaired driving under the influence of marijuana have gone up over the past decade. But how do police officers determine if a driver is high — and are these tests accurate?

More than a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Department of Justice continues to spend enormous amounts of time and energy pressing cases against people from across the country who tried to overturn a presidential election with violence. Seventeen Missourians are facing federal charges.

Seven years after Ferguson and months after the George Floyd murder verdict, police reform has stagnated. The legal system remains stacked in favor of police. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funded a team of a dozen college journalists to take a broad look at the issues.