ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – A new Mayor of Saint Louis and a new public safety director. Shawn Dace, is a retired Saint Louis Police Major, he replaces Charles Coyle immediately.
Dace retired from the St. Louis Police Department in February of 2025 after serving since 1980.
Dace tells KMOX, he first met Mayor Cara Spencer in 2015 when she was an alderwoman and he was a newly appointed Captain in the Third District. “we did a lot of projects on Cherokee Street, uh she was very influential in a men’s basketball program I had put together, I just found her to be very transparent, a lot of energy and really focusing on diversity.”…