Wednesday, June 5 - Concerns within SLMPD's homicide unit

05/06/2024 9 min
Wednesday, June 5 - Concerns within SLMPD's homicide unit

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Episode Synopsis

We’ve been reporting this week on the difficulty the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department had with solving homicides between 2014 and 2023. Reporting by St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and the Marshall Project found that the department kept detectives in the unit even after a supervisor claimed they repeatedly failed to perform basic investigative tasks. St. Louis Public Radio’s Rachel Lippmann has more of the investigation’s finding.