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As Kayla Reed and a new generation of local leaders saw each of their reform efforts fail to curb police violence in the St. Louis area, they soon realized that what they really had to overcome was the police union’s political force in local elections.
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The Missouri House has approved sweeping legislation that covers a wide range of law enforcement matters, most notably a provision that could make protesting in the middle of a street a felony.
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It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.
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State Sen. Brian Williams talks about his legislation overhauling police practices, which was recently combined with another bill removing the residency requirement for the Kansas City Police Department.
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Around 450,000 county residents qualify for a dose, but the county only has enough supply to vaccinate around 100 people a day at the north county site.
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Now that she's no longer in office, former Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, has a lot to say about her 16 years in the Missouri House and Missouri Senate — during which she says was strengthened by constantly being challenged during election season.
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U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis County, said she hopes to harness her experience as an activist in Ferguson to spur legislative action around policing policy.
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Mercy Health will soon begin construction on a clinic in Ferguson that will provide medical and mental health care to residents in north St. Louis County. The 5,500-square-foot health center will anchor a planned Florissant Avenue development that includes a grocery store and youth center.
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The Ferguson Monitoring Team and the National Police Foundation will conduct a community survey to allow residents to rate the performance of police officers. Survey respondents also will rate their level of confidence in the police department, their willingness to work with police.
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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in 2017 that the legislation known as Senate Bill 5 was an unconstitutional special law, then reversed itself late last year in an unrelated case. Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who helped write SB5 as a state senator, had asked a lower court to apply that new logic to his legislation.