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Release: After Nearly a Decade, Chris Koster is Ready to Fight Crime — Strings Attached

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September 6, 2016

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After Nearly a Decade, Chris Koster is Ready to Fight Crime — Strings Attached 

JEFFERSON CITY– After eight years as Attorney General, Chris Koster has finally shown an interest decreasing the growing urban crime rate in Missouri.  But his pledge comes with a caveat — winning the right to call the Governor’s Mansion “home.”

Last week, Koster told the Kansas City Star that urban crime needs “a strong law enforcement response” and that we “need to make this issue a priority in 2017.”

 

That leaves only one question for the self-described “chief prosecutor and law enforcement officer“: why are you using political leverage to finally address a problem Missourians have trusted you with since 2008? 

 

On Koster’s watch, crime in our major cities has skyrocketed:

 

Just last year, St. Louis saw nearly 200 murders — something it hadn’t seen in two decades.  

 

On a list of the 30 murder capitals in the country, St. Louis takes the number one spot.  Kansas City?  It made the list, too.  

 

In 2013, not one, not two but three Missouri cities made the list of the most dangerous places in the country.  

 

After nearly a decade of ignoring violent crimes on the rise, Koster is asking for a promotion.  

“For the last eight years, Chris Koster has failed as the state’s chief prosecutor and law enforcement officer.  On Koster’s watch, three Missouri cities have landed on a list of the most dangerous place in the United States — and St. Louis is named the murder capital of the country,” said Kristen Blanchard Ansley, Director of State Communications for the Missouri Republican Party.  “Instead of covering up his failed record as he tries to climb the next rung of the political ladder, Chris Koster needs to explain why he neglected to do the job he already has as Attorney General.”