Talk:St. Louis County Police Department

Section on cases of brutality and excessive force, and high number of shootings from this department?
There's recently been a lot of media attention about alleged police abuse from this department. Apologies for quoting at length (from slate:

"Perhaps one of the most disturbing cases was last year’s shooting of Cary Ball Jr., a 25-year-old black student at St. Louis Community College–Forest Park. The official police report is that Ball crashed his car after a high-speed chase, ran away, and aimed his weapon at officers after they confronted him. Witnesses say Ball had thrown his gun to the ground and was walking toward police—hands up—when he was shot and killed with 25 rounds. A federal investigation cleared the officers. Likewise, that February, surveillance video from a casino showed St. Louis police slamming a black man’s head into the bumper of a vehicle, after a dispute over gambling and trespassing. And in March of this year, a video showed St. Louis police officers beating a mentally disabled man in his home, after the family called police for help."

and

"But the anecdotes of brutality and excessive force out of St. Louis and St. Louis County are rampant and often startling. In 2009, for example, a man was wrongly arrested, beaten by police, and subsequently charged for bleeding on their uniforms."

The St. Louis Dispatch goes into further detail: example 1, More on police high police shooting from St. Louis Department.

Thoughts about adding a section to this wiki page about this?
 * It looks like you are confusing the St. Louis County Police Department with the St. Louis Police Department. Also, the "bleeding on uniforms" incident was with the Ferguson Police Department. — Preceding unsigned comment added by APS221 (talk • contribs) 09:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Precinct map is outdated
The precinct map shown in the sidebar is outdated. It doesn't include Precinct 8 (the Jennings precinct), nor does it reflect various changes to the northern and western parts of the county. Compare with this 2018 map on the County's GIS website: https://data.stlouisco.com/documents/f460a011dd9c4896b17b6665b55f9ef8/explore Kirkman (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2023 (UTC)