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Officials create plan aimed to tackle violent crime in St. Louis City

Officials are rallying together to implement a plan to address the violent crime occurring in St. Louis City.

New St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden said many of the shootings happen in the ‘crime rectangle,’ high crime neighborhoods in North City that stretches from Goodfellow Blvd to Vandeventer Ave and ends just north of Martin Luther King Blvd.

Police, prosecutors and local leaders plan to provide extra resources to certain neighborhood including increasing the number of officers, special drug units and police cameras in the area.

In addition, the plan will utilize eight federal prosecutors to solely focus on high crime neighborhoods.

In 2017, St. Louis City Police investigated 205 homicides— the most in 25 years.

“Crime rectangle,” huh? “Increasing the number of officers.” Which means the dindu box on the north side will be where the SLPD plays a game of whack-a-mole writ large.

Accusations of MUH WAYSHUL PWOFYWING in three, two, one…

In related news:

Carjackings up sharply throughout the St. Louis region

Police in the St. Louis area are battling a rising number of carjackings.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis police recorded 190 carjacking calls from January through November of 2017, more than double the number for all of 2014. St. Louis County had 57 carjackings last year, compared to 50 in 2016 and 39 in 2015.

St. Louis police Major Kenneth Kegel says carjackers typically go out in groups of three, and often commit several carjackings in one night. Many are between the ages of 15 and 24.

Kegel says carjackers sometimes follow a vehicle with a single occupant, waiting for that person to park.

I’ve heard that “groups of three” warning many times before. Which means, in the true Jesse Jackson spirit, here’s how to think about it:

Where there’s three, you better not be.