Urban Go-Team 2015 Resources

In an effort to provide background information for students and staff in Urban Go-Team 2015, Civitas is providing links to a number of helpful resources. There are two categories of information: (a) those that are in a PDF format which can be saved to individuals’ computers, and (b) links to on-line stories, graphics, and explanations.

Go-Team Survey Results for Law & Disorder

1. Arch City Defenders Municipal Courts Whitepaper
   1. Explanation of how courts in North St. Louis municipalities establish and enforce so-called “poverty crimes.”

Race Relations:

1. Barack Obama speech on race; March, 2008
2. Baltimore Orioles executive explains why Baltimore’s economic and racial problems were greater than those of baseball team
3. Poll: American views on race; March, 2015
4. The Race Gap in America’s Police Departments (New York Times)

St. Louis Metropolitan Area

1. Fragmentation is holding St. Louis back
2. MOSAIC Descriptions (descriptions of different economic and life-style groups) (Alteryx)
3. Comparison of St. Louis, MO and Phoenix, AZ metropolitan areas — Part I (Alteryx)
4. Comparison of St. Louis, MO and Chicago, IL housing (Alteryx)
5. Interactive Maps of Racial Patterns in St. Louis in 20th and 21st Centuries
6. Interactive Graphic: The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up:How Your Area Compares (New York Times)
7. Research Group proposes reforms to St. Louis area policing
8. Map of crimes in St. Louis County, MO
9. St. Louis County Police Department
10. May, 2015 Report on St. Louis County Policing
11. Municipalities ticket for trees and toys, as traffic revenue declines
12. St. Louis County Admits it has a Jail Problem, is finally getting help
13. Traffic enforcement report: Black drivers in Missouri still stopped at higher rate
14. Wellston council dumps its police force, brings in Vinita Park

City of St. Louis

1. St. Louis City Budget for FY (Fiscal Year) 2016 (July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016)
2. St. Louis Public Schools Budget for FY 2014
3. St. Louis City crime reports for 2014-15 (Post-Dispatch)
   

Specifically Related to Ferguson

1. U.S. Department of Justice Report on Shooting of Michael Brown
2. U.S. Department of Justice Report on Ferguson Police Department
3. Justice Department Review Finds Pattern of Racial Bias Among Ferguson Police (Washington Post)
4. A White Son of Ferguson on why St. Louis Can’t Change (Daily Kos)
5. In Ferguson, Black Town, White Power (Missouri’s Jeff Smith in New York Times)
6. How Ferguson went from Middle Class to Poor in a Generation (TIME Magazine)
7. Demographic comparison of Ferguson and Creve Coeur (Alteryx)
8. Ferguson protesters disagree over who should receive donations
9. Income disparity within Ferguson zip code (63135)

Violence

1. TED TALK: Let’s Treat Violence Like A Contagious Disease (from Allison Reed)
2. Trailer to Movie: “THE INTERRUPTERS” about Violence as a Disease (from Allison Reed)

Police by the Numbers:

1. List of countries by number of police officers
2. Law Enforcement Officers Per Capita for Cities, Local Departments
3. Nearly 400 fatal shootings by police officers so far in 2015 (May 30, 2015)

Crime by the Numbers:

1. List of United States cities by crime rate (2012)
2. Thirty cities with the highest murder rates in the U.S. [Use caution because of population and other demographic variables]