St. Louis Metro Police Department Publishes 2024 Homicide Data - 92% of Known Homicide Suspects in St. Louis Are Black: The City of St. Louis Is 43% Black/ 46% White Out of 301,000 people,St. Louis is 43 percent black/46 percent white.
Our good friends at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department not only put out an annual report on crime broken down by race, (found here) but a weekly analysis of the yearly crime rate.
Also, conveniently, breaking out homicides by both the race of victims and suspects.
Every major American city should boast such transparency in crime statistics published by their police force and broken down by race of suspects and victim, as a precious few of our departments dare delineate such information for the public to consume (the heroic New York City Police Department yearly publishes its Crime and Enforcement Activity Reports, but has yet to release the 2024 version).
And for the year 2024, four years after the joyous, unity-seeking Black Lives Matter movement triumphed nationwide courtesy of the ghost of George Floyd, what percent of homicides in St. Louis have a black suspect?
For 2024, 111 of 121 known homicide suspects were black, or 92% of known homicide suspects in the 46% white city of St. Louis were black.
Black Lives Matter, though. Right?