ST. LOUIS • Police Chief Sam Dotson is retiring after more than four years on the job, new St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said Wednesday, her first full day in office. Dotson, 47, has been chief since 2013. He met...
HBO Vice, the national weekly newsmagazine series, will tackle issues of racial bias within the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) and other police departments, both internally and in the communities they serve, in an episode to air this Friday,...
Senate Bill 287, filed by Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, would replace the existing data-gathering procedure the Missouri Attorney General’s office uses to measure racial disparities in traffic stops. In its place would be an enhanced system meant to combat...
Saying that the department is rife with corruption and has to change, the organization representing African-American police officers says it will use the city’s new whistleblower ordinance to get its review of the St. Louis Police Metropolitan Department before the Civilian Oversight Board....
The organization that represents St. Louis’ minority police officers plans to use a new whistleblower law to push for changes in the way officers are promoted, transferred and disciplined. The law, which Mayor Francis Slay intends to sign before leaving...