Posted on 01/12/2009 10:26:39 AM PST by BGHater
Federal agents are joining with city police to form a new team aimed at stopping murders and other violent crimes by zeroing in on those most likely to commit them.
Police Chief Dan Isom announced the new Violent Offender's Unit on Friday, calling it a historic relationship between local and federal authorities.
Chuck Wexler of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington said in an interview Friday that such partnerships can produce great results.
"Everyone brings different assets to the table. When you have them working together, you get the best of both worlds," Wexler said. "It could have a pretty profound effect on crime in the city of St. Louis."
Setting up the unit was among Isom's first priorities when he took over as police chief in October, he said.
Overall, violent crime in the city dropped 3.5 percent last year, he said, but homicides increased by 21 percent. St. Louis ended the year with 167 murders, the highest number since 204 people were slain in 1995.
The unit will use computerized data and undercover officers to saturate areas known for drug and gang problems to focus on people with a history of violence.
Special attention will be put on those with prior arrests for murder, weapons violations and multiple felonies, Isom said.
"This is not about those citizens who have previously been convicted of a crime but have now turned their lives around," Isom emphasized. "It's about the repeat offenders who, arrest after arrest ... continue to terrorize our neighborhoods with their criminal activities."
He said federal help will allow the city to transfer some of its officers back to regular street patrol.
Federal agents said they will bring their special expertise in gangs, drugs and weapons to the mix.
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Profiling?
Goverment Pure Evil!
I'd love to see their ranking system!
My, my, you should see the big beautiful mosque overlooking the interstate in St Louis. Saw it a couple years ago while driving through the city in the night.
The FBI is just a stop-gap until the Obama Civilian Security Forces can take over. (Don’t you know the marauding hordes of victims will need to be protected from malicious illegally-armed freedom lovers?)
Huh? Where? What highway?
. Ahhhh, let me see...let me guess. BLACK MALES?
Which will be interesting because he will pull the majority of the ppl for his Security Forces from North St. Louis. Now, let me ask, do you know where the majority of the murders, rapes and other miscellaneous mayhem occurs?
Yeah, I live in south St. Louis city (which itself is becoming more and more dicey). I know full well from whence the Obama army will be recruited and it will be like putting the billy goat in charge of the garden.
No it will be everybody other than BLACK MALES (not PC). Lets see, they’ll probably start with members of the NRA.
I guess he means the big prayer tower erected at the Islamic Center off South Kingshighway (looks like a rocket ready to take off). But it’s pretty far from either I-44 or I-55. It’s not that big.
Two years ago, we drove I-70 through St Louis at night in a Uhaul. We were driving west. The mosque was above the interstate on our right.
You’ve got me scratching. There’s black muslim temple up north but I don’t recall a prayer tower or minaret. There’s also a water tower on North Grand, but that would have been on the left.
not so much. they’ll focus on repeat offenders. many of these, of course, will be minority males.
Googled: Mosque #28, 1408 North Kingshighway, Lower Level
St. Louis, MO 63113
314-361-4555
Not being a resident, I have no idea where this is.
I’m trying to remember ever being wrong....
Sorry, sorry, the mosque was on our LEFT! I’m a conservative and just never use that word.
If you were well past St. Louis city proper, you may be thinking of the Church of LDS? Large Angel on top of the spire?
Gabriel wearing a burka and a machine gun?
I am very happy to be wrong or confused on this one!
That’s OK I’m thinking of the CLDS on HWY 40, My bad
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