St. Louis Police Headquarters Opened Two Years Ago Today
On Saturday July 19, 2014 — two years ago today — the St. Louis Metropolitan Police showed off their new headquarters on Olive between 19th (which they had closed) and 20th
The building isn’t new construction, it was previously an office building. On the day of the police headquarters open house they had some vehicles out front.
Nobody questioned the military vehicle out front, but three weeks later Michael Brown was shot & killed in Ferguson. Many others have been shot by police in the last two years.
- CBS News, January 2014: Not your typical police car: Military vehicles put to new use back in U.S.
- Post-Dispatch, August 2014: Ferguson highlights police use of military gear and tactics
- CBS News, August 2014: Why Ferguson, Mo., looked like a war zone this week
- USA Today, May 2015: Obama bans some military equipment sales to police
- Mother Jones, August 2015: Documents Reveal the Fearmongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon
- Fox News, November 2015: Outrage as military vehicles, equipment taken from officers in wake of Obama order
Recent shootings of black men in Baton Rouge & St. Paul, followed by the shooting of police officers in Dallas, Ballwin, and Baton Rouge, demonstrate we still have considerable work to do.
— Steve Patterson
Any interest in or action on the old police station on Clark Street?
Not that I’m aware of.