Law enforcement

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.

On "St. Louis on the Air," the Legal Roundtable discussed the most important developments in the past month involving the area's judicial system, including two 8th Circuit rulings on qualified immunity and lawsuits over Missouri's Sunshine Law.

Donald Hutson’s family had been waiting for his release from prison for decades.But in September 2018, Hutson died at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center…

Dayton, Ohio-based Persistent Surveillance Systems developed its aerial surveillance system to help the military in Fallujah. The company’s CEO, Ross…

Former St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson first introduced the idea of the “Ferguson effect” in a 2014 column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when he…