Talk:St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department

Wow is this place like 1930s Germany...?.
I know this won't go in the article for this quasi-SS organisation but here it is anyway. Cop walks free from assault charge after judge refuses to watch video of the attack!86.181.30.104 (talk) 10:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (This A Police Department Why Are You Guys Trying To Remove this page ) --Tysports (talk) 20:16, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Commissioner's rank insignia
I see that on October 2nd, a user who seems to be closely connected to the subject changed the commissioner's rank insignia from the real colonel's insignia to that of a 5 star general. However, this news article dated to 2 days ago (11/29/18) includes a photo of Colonel John Hayden with the insignia that I just added back. Just to avoid any edit wars I wanted to post this message to see if that other edit was in fact valid, as I am fully aware of other US police or sheriff's departments' usage of a general's rank insignia for colonels. 108.49.193.123 (talk) 15:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Controversies
I agree with the Tysports, this page consists almost exclusively of positive coverage of the STLPD. I would like to expand this page to include the numerous controversies that the STLPD has been involved in.
 * "Russian Roulette" killing of a STL Police Officer and possible coverup (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/russian-roulette-cop-killing.html)
 * Police Misconduct-Beating a undercover police officer (https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-cops-accused-of-beating-colleague-and-covering-it/article_ce83ff29-e2d1-5423-adf1-63bcf133a249.html)
 * Police Officers referring to shooting victim as "Gangbanging POS" (https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2019/01/31/st-louis-police-union-blasts-shooting-victim-as-would-be-cop-killer-and-thug?fbclid=IwAR1a8lQZHRbj-rpQ_QIUgEwYg1Et41dOdL2s56VZNsCtVZexH1lWDDMjtp4)
 * https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/st-louis-police-brutality-stockley/577174/
 * Alleged suspression of victims of misconducts, https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/accuser-in-st-louis-police-brutality-case-arrested-after-testifying/article_15d96980-5fef-52ff-8fe1-020e8921c8cc.html

The controversy section reads like a list of news articles. While some of these might deserve inclusion. Some are not. The inclusion of Ferguson protesters' deaths seems to be a stretch for this particular article. Some just consist of links. Recommend a rewrite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.87.186.154 (talk) 17:25, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Awesome thanks for your agreement Tysports (talk) 05:35, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

This page should not be speedy deleted because...
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (Because it's a Government Agency) --24.234.166.234 (talk) 20:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 8 April 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  04:14, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis → St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department – The common name in RSes, and less clunky than the current title. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:30, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

the metropolitan police is the official name of the department & if you don't believe me then visit there website @ slmpd.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by LewisT34 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Clear WP:COMMONNAME. Its abbreviation is SLMPD, not MPDCSL! -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:36, 12 April 2021 (UTC)