It has been three years since Gabe Gore was sworn in as the appointed circuit attorney of St. Louis.
In that time, he has more than doubled the number of attorneys prosecuting cases from 22 to 49, cleared an inherited backlog of nearly 7,000 cases, restarted the office’s diversion program and boosted its community outreach.
“Our vision for the circuit attorney’s office for the City of St. Louis is that we will be one of the highest-performing prosecuting attorneys’ offices in the country, and in this past year, we continue to work towards those goals,” Gore said Thursday as he provided an update on his third full year in office…