Last year, homicides rose to record levels in one of Missouri's two largest cities, while homicides fell sharply in the other.
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There will be 182 homicides in 2023, 12 more than in 2022 and three more than the all-time high of 179 in 2020, according to Kansas City Police Department data. Police department data does not include homicides involving officers.
Old Courthouse and Gateway Arch, taken from City Garden in St. Louis, Missouri on November 2, 2012. (Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
Mayor Quinton Lucas said Wednesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, that some crime trends show that while “non-fatal shootings are down this year compared to last year, other crimes such as homicides are down. “Trends have reached new highs and are moving in the right direction.” Help us build safer cities in 2024. ”
Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri's second-largest city, there were 158 homicides statewide last year, 42 fewer than the 200 in 2022, Mayor Tishaura Jones' office announced Tuesday. In St. Louis, mass shootings are down 24%, and the number of youth victims is down 50% from the previous year.
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Jones gave credit to Police Chief Robert J. Tracy, who has been in the job for a year, and the department's new Violence Prevention Bureau.
