Local Control

For the first time ever, the Missouri House has passed legislation to give the city of St. Louis control over its police department, which has been under…

A day after a measure granting St. Louis control of its police department cleared the latest of several legislative hurdles, a broad coalition of…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 17, 2011 - If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: I hate redundancy. Phrases like…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 17, 2011 - State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, is jubilant today over the Missouri House's…

The Missouri House has given first-round approval to legislation that would return control of the Metropolitan Police Department to the city of St.…

St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom says the department may have to lay off as many as 65 officers because of a budget shortfall.KSDK-TV reports that Isom…

A Safer Missouri, a group in favor of local control of the St. Louis Police Department, announced three additional entities today which have endorsed…

St. Louis City Hall is ratcheting up pressure on Jefferson City to relinquish control of the city's police department, or pay for it themselves.St. Louis…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 24, 2011 - Multimillionaire Rex Sinquefield, who bankrolled the campaign that could end the St.…

Political activist Rex Sinquefield is donating $300,000 to a Missouri group's effort to remove the St. Louis and Kansas City police departments from state…