ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — The variety of folks killed in St. Louis streets in 2021 was lower than 2020, however organizations like Households Advocating Protected Streets wish to hold driving that quantity down.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Division reported 194 homicides in 2021, 263 in 2020 and 192 in 2019.
“The discount in homicides comes from quite a lot of completely different locations,” stated Saint Louis College Criminology Professor Kenya Brumfield-Younger. “We will take a look at issues like folks getting again to work, there’s much less pandemic stress. I suppose it is too early to look and say that is the one factor that is pushed it down.”
Households Advocating Protected Stress advised Information 4 it desires to proceed this progress. The group held its first end-of-the-year murder vigil Friday with out its founder Jeanette Culpepper.
“Do not matter what they have been doing. It is the truth that their life was misplaced by means of violence,” stated Oscar Brown, brother of Culpepper and certainly one of FASS’s board of administrators.
Brown stated the group is working with a advisor to introduce new options in 2022.
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