The Ways and Means Committee of the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen has voted to plonk out the SLPD’s lobbying budget. Officially, it’s because money is tight, but the real reason is that that money is being used to lobby state legislators to oppose local control of the SLPD, and almost all of the black Aldermen and many of the white ones want local control. What that would mean is that white-hating police-hating black “community activists” and preachers would not allow white cops to arrest black criminal suspects.