For the first time since October, the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners is taking public comment at its meeting Wednesday—and they may get an earful.
As St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has been engaged in an increasingly bitter war with other commissioners, some locals are taking her side. Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan recently wrote a column saying he was wrong to support state control of the St. Louis police, saying, “Things started badly and have steadily gotten worse.” State Rep. Steve Butz (D-St. Louis), a rare Democratic vote for state control, recently wrote a letter telling Gov. Mike Kehoe that “much of the goodwill surrounding the board’s formation is beginning to erode within the city” and asking him to intervene.
Anecdotally, aldermen are hearing it, too…