St. Louis mayor continues push to defund police despite city having highest national murder rate

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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has continued her push to defund the city’s police department despite the city currently being at a 50-year high for murders.

“We still have two separate police unions — one for black police officers and one for white officers,” Jones said of the city’s police. “If they can’t trust each other, then how can they expect the public to trust them?”

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