From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: " Violent crimes surge in St. Louis," by Jeremy Kohler and Bill Bryan--
Reports of violent crimes in St. Louis surged 20 percent last year to their highest levels in seven years, led by a staggering increase in reported rapes, the Police Department said Wednesday.
Police say 276 women reported rapes last year, about 3 1/2 times as many as the department recorded two years ago. Some of them were fresh reports of attacks from prior years, police said.
--Posted by St. Louis pi attorney T. Evan Schaeffer of St. Louis personal injury law firm Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
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