{"id":526633,"date":"2021-05-19T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526633"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:21:00","slug":"st-louis-mayor-more-police-doesnt-prevent-crime-megyn-kelly-fires-back-four-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/st-louis-mayor-more-police-doesnt-prevent-crime-megyn-kelly-fires-back-four-words\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Mayor: \u2018More Police Doesn\u2019t Prevent Crime.\u2019 Megyn Kelly Fires Back Four Words."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fst-louis-mayor-more-police-doesnt-prevent-crime-megyn-kelly-fires-back-four-words%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Megyn-Kelly-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After it was reported that the new mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, which \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/more-police-doesnt-prevent-crime-153935563.html\">holds<\/a> the unenviable record of the highest murder rate in America,&nbsp;ahead of Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit for the sixth year running,\u201d said that&nbsp;\u201cmore police doesn\u2019t prevent crime,\u201d podcast host and former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly offered a simple but stark message to the citizenry of St. Louis: \u201cGood luck St. Louis.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.7441860465116\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good luck St. Louis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TUrDMpSbYm\">https:\/\/t.co\/TUrDMpSbYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1395092564248772615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones told The Telegraph: \u201cSt Louis needs a lot of help. \u2026 We still have two separate police unions&nbsp;\u2014 one for black police officers and one for white officers. If they can\u2019t trust each other, then how can they expect the public to trust them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/homicide-shootings-st-louis-violence-crime-5e3340f5ed71479af1661ea39e417e1c\">said<\/a>, \u201cThe arrest and incarcerate model of public safety obviously isn\u2019t working. And in cities where they have added more police to the mix, those cities are no safer than they were before. So we have to do something different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KMOV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmov.com\/news\/investigations\/sources-say-mayor-jones-doubled-her-security-as-she-cut-city-police-positions\/article_331182c8-a952-11eb-9ac5-6b2864a7a2ad.html\">reported<\/a> that Jones allegedly doubled her security as she cut police positions. The news site noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>Under former St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, only two police officers were assigned to her security detail. According to a spokesperson for the police union, when Mayor Jones took office, she doubled the number to four. A second police source also confirmed the number is greater than it was before. However, the police department told us they would not officially disclose the number of assigned officers and wouldn\u2019t tell us why not.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for Jones\u2019 told KMOV, \u201cWe cannot provide much information for security reasons, however the staffing for the mayor\u2019s security is based upon recommendations provided to our office before inauguration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Jones ripped the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlamerican.com\/news\/local_news\/tishaura-jones-slams-post-editorial-board-while-declining-interview\/article_bf690c28-eee9-11e6-a351-1f4dd2a2e28d.html\">writing<\/a>, \u201cWhat is killing our region is a systemic racism that pervades almost every public and private institution, including your newspaper, and makes it nearly impossible for either North St. Louis or the parts of South St. Louis where African Americans live to get better or safer or healthier or better-educated. St. Louis needs to change. I am not afraid to say that. \u2026 I will look at every issue through a racial equity lens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/st-louis-homicide-rate-in-2020-highest-in-50-years-with-262-killings\/article_b3c323a7-bc38-55bc-812b-08990b0eb289.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in January that the city\u2019s homicide rate \u201chit 87 killings per 100,000 residents in 2020, the highest on record since 1970,\u201d noting that the number \u201cexceeds the previous high of 69 per 100,000 people set in 1993.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpolicesupportfund.com\/issues\/defunding-police\/\">National Police Support Fund<\/a>, arguing against defunding the police, writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After it was reported that the new mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, which \u201cholds the unenviable record of the highest murder rate in America,\u00a0ahead of Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312403,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Megyn-Kelly-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"St. Louis Mayor: \u2018More Police Doesn\u2019t Prevent Crime.\u2019 Megyn Kelly Fires Back Four Words.","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Megyn-Kelly-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"St. Louis Mayor: \u2018More Police Doesn\u2019t Prevent Crime.\u2019 Megyn Kelly Fires Back Four Words.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}