Only in one of our Democrat run major cities could a mayor be presiding over the biggest murder spree in America and still want to defund police. Welcome to St. Louis.

FNC: “In St. Louis, Mo., the worst-in-country murder rate is at a 50-year high, the police department has nearly 100 unfilled jobs, and the mayor wants to defund the department and shut down a city jail. St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones, who became the city’s first black female mayor last month, had campaigned on a promise to enact progressive criminal justice reforms.

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“St. Louis had 87 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2020, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the worst rate in the country. It’s now at its highest rate in 50 years – even as the population has dwindled in that same time period. Some city officials have blamed the spike in violence on the coronavirus pandemic – which would follow the national trend, except St. Louis also led the country before COVID-19 in homicides per 100,000 in 2019 with 65. The head of the city’s corrections department is also on his way out. Jones announced his resignation last week, saying she hadn’t requested he step down but making clear she wasn’t satisfied with how he ran things.” She needed a scapegoat. She got one.

Corrections Commissioner Dale Glass will be resigning from his position as of June 1.

Read our full statement below, or see the full text on the City's website: https://t.co/67Hw5CgDcf pic.twitter.com/jFnOlHMY2R

— Mayor Tishaura O. Jones (@saintlouismayor) May 12, 2021

St. Louis Director of Public Safety Daniel Isom spun it this way. “Funding a comprehensive approach to violent crime is the best approach to reducing murders. This requires both police and partnering agencies adequately funded to support victims and hold offenders accountable. It also requires target arrest and prosecutions to get murderers and shooters off the streets and not filling jails with nonviolent offenders.” That was gibberish.

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The mayor told the UK’s The Telegraph Tuesday that “more police doesn’t prevent crime…We still have two separate police unions – one for black police officers and one for white officers,” she told the paper. “If they can’t trust each other, then how can they expect the public to trust them?” Hold on. Police unions based on race? And her contention that race precludes them from trusting each other? What kind of racist shooting gallery is she running?

To make matters worse, she wants to incarcerate petty offenders with hardened criminals by axing the city’s medium security jail. She announced that in the company of Marxist antisemite Democrat Rep. Cori Bush.  “We don’t need two jails. We need to move people through the system.” So one time offenders can be housed with murderers and the murderers can get back to the streets more efficiently.

Defund the police, bureaucratic scapegoats, Marxist posturing, and a city where murder is less a crime than a hobby. Another Democrat wasteland. And it may be the most crime ridden city in America. Sorry Democrat also rans Chicago and NYC, you’re not trying hard enough.