Murder City USA: St Louis's Record Breaking Murder Rate
The Underworld Podcast
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The History of St. Louis, America's Failures
The city of St. Louis is struggling with all these issues that are endemic now to a lot of American cities, especially in the Midwest. It's heroin epidemic, loss of industry, gang violence, policing issues, superlax gun laws and racial segregation. In the first half of the 20th century, when St. Louis was thriving, there were these harsh segregation laws that deliberately put black residents into low income ghettos. You had white flight to the suburbs and failed housing policies that effectively abandoned these black communities for drugs and to crime.
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