Crime is top issue facing St. Louis, mayor tells Mo. Senate panel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Jones pointed to her efforts to hire mental health and social workers to respond to some emergency calls, freeing up police officers "to do the work they were trained to do."
48% : "I truly believe there is something, some element missing other than the fact that we need stricter gun laws," Schatz said.
40% : Missouri lawmakers' passage of increasingly lax gun laws and policies preventing stricter firearm rules and enforcement have stymied local efforts to beat back violent crime, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones told a state Senate panel Monday.
40% : "The relaxation of gun safety laws and our inability to pass commonsense gun safety on the local level has led to an increase in gun deaths," Jones said.
37% : Schatz, though, said policies such as abortion cheapen human life and contribute to the violence that has plagued St. Louis for decades.

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