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Local Control
4:31 pm
Thu February 10, 2011

More endorsements of local control of St. Louis police, Nixon comments on issue

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department logo on the side of a patrol vehicle. (St. Louis Public Radio)
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 A Safer Missouri, a group in favor of local control of the St. Louis Police Department, announced three additional entities today which have endorsed local control:

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Local Control
5:19 pm
Tue February 8, 2011

Slay to State: Give city control of police department or pay for it yourselves

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay delivers his annual State of the City report to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen at City Hall in St. Louis on April 25, 2008. Slay spoke out today about local control of St. Louis' police department. (UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
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St. Louis City Hall is ratcheting up pressure on Jefferson City to relinquish control of the city's police department, or pay for it themselves.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay says he expects the Missouri legislature to return control of city police department this year.

If not, the Mayor says St. Louis is within its rights to bill the General Assembly for part of the cost of running it.

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Local Control
4:18 pm
Mon January 24, 2011

Sinquefield donating $300K to promote local control of police departments

Rex Sinquefield in 2008. Sinquefield is donating $300,000 to further political action committee A Safer Missouri's efforts to remove St. Louis and Kansas City police from state control. (UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
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Political activist Rex Sinquefield is donating $300,000 to a Missouri group's effort to remove the St. Louis and Kansas City police departments from state control.

The political action committee A Safer Missouri plans to collect the 150,000 valid signatures necessary to get the issue on the Nov. 2012 ballot.

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