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Defund Transform campaign believes less money should be spent on police
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ST. LOUIS – Thursday night, the ‘Defund the Police’ movement met in the Central West End for a campaign called Defund Re-envisioned Transform.
The group believes less money should be spent on police and more on people like social workers and mental health experts, and on public housing and the like.
FOX 2’s Elliott Davis spoke to one of the group organizers, Inez Bordeaux, who said: ”We’re spending all of our money in the wrong place, which is what this campaign focuses on. How do we focus that money into the things that actually create public safety. In the city, we spend $173 million every single year on the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Davis asked this question, ”When you look at St. Louis with high crime, if you’re the victim of a crime who are you going to call, the police you want an officer to be there right?”
Bordeaux answered, “What we want is we don’t believe that police are the answer.”
The group is trying to build membership and get the word out.
Bordeaux shared, ”Instead of calling the police we want to be able to call a caseworker a social worker someone who has experience in dealing with drug treatment issues or whatever that issue is.”
When asked, if the caseworker doesn’t show up with a gun, how do you stop the bad guy? Davis further asked, ”Even as we saw in the school shooting here in St. Louis the guy who was killing people until police came up and stopped the guy at the school here in St. Louis, how would?’
”There are things that we could have done prior to that. Police, they’re not even a band-aid; they don’t prevent the problem; they don’t solve the problem; they’re reactionary, and we want to be proactive,” Bordeaux answered.
One of the group members said their goal is to divert $10 million from the police budget to other groups.
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The ‘Defund the Police’ movement caught on after the George Floyd murder in Minneapolis. However, it began to fizzle with the spike in crime in that city. A number of politicians embraced the idea for a time, until the public backlash forced them to moderate their stance.
The St. Louis group is convinced there’s a better way than spending so much money on police, and they plan to do all they can to make their idea a reality.
Bordeaux lastly explained, ”What our campaign is about is getting out in front of these problems addressing these needs before it gets out of control cause the police they’re not even a band-aid they don’t prevent the problem they don’t solve the problem.”
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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