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THE TAMPA TIMES, Friday, April 4, 1980 10-A .1 i Lou is, other Jorge If -T rosnotic leap in murders feller 3 4. 4 Its leader is Sgt. James Buchanan, a black who says the city should hire more black officers to try to deal more effectively with crime in the black community. St. Louis' population of 500,000 is more than 50 percent black.

The police force of about 2,000 officers is 18 percent black. City officials say they cannot find enough qualified black officers. Many murder investigations are hampered because witnesses decline to testify in court, and the reason, said Buchanan, is the unwillingness of some blacks to cooperate with white police officers. "We could solve part of that if we had more black officers doing homicide investigations," Buchanan said, noting that of 16 detectives on the homicide squad, only two are black. Sgt.

Norman Jacobsmeyer, commander of the homicide division, said arrests were made in 89 percent of all slayings in 1979, a rate he called the best of any of the nation's major cities. "I think the department is doing everything it can," he said. Buchanan, however, noted that of the 89 percent arrest rate, "most of those who are arrested are going free because charges are never filed," he said. Peach said he didn't know what percentage of those arrested are never charged. But in "a pretty nice chunk" of cases where murder suspects are freed for lack of evidence, Peach said, the problem is a lack of willing or credible witnesses.

Peach said in many cases unwilling witnesses have an attitude of "to hell with the police, to hell with the courts." "With these harsh figures before us, it is not difficult to say that blacks are killing each other at an alarming rate," Peach, who is white, said in his letter. "The slightest arguments often result in bloodshed. We've got to stop the quick rush to the gun to settle disputes," Peach said. The typical murder victim in St. Louis is a black male in his 20s, gunned down by a neighbor in a street near his home.

In 64 percent of the killings a handgun is used. The victim may have resisted a robbery, fought over money or been targeted by drug dealers. "The law enforcement agencies take the atti-, tude that, 'Well, there's another black killed. That's one less black we have to deal said state Rep. Fred Williams of St.

Louis, who is black. But Police Chief Eugene Camp commented, "You can't patrol against murder. If someone wants to kill somebody, how can we stop it?" Black leaders say the business community has virtually abandoned the crime-ridden north side. What's left, they say, is unemployment and poverty. St.

Louis has lost 58,000 manufacturing jobs, in the last 10 years. It stands to lose another 5,000 jobs over the next couple of years as General Motors abandons its north side assembly plant, the city's single largest source of tax revenue and one of its biggest employers. The operation will be relocated in rural Wentzville, 45 miles west of St. Louis. "When an industry thinks about where it wants to relocate, it doesn't want to have its employees subjected to the kind of crime problems St.

Louis has," said Williams. Some police officers, unhappy with the department's failure to curb the murder rate, have organized the St. Louis Police Ethical Society. By ROBERT BURNS AP Writer ST. LOUIS Street violence most of it in the blighted black neighborhoods on the north side of St.

Louis has put this Midwestern river port on top of the national heap in murder statistics. Police recorded 230 murders in St. Louis in 1978, 46 for every 100,000 residents highest ratio in the nation and more than double the rate in New York City. Last year the killings increased by 24 percent, pushing the rate to 57 per 100,000. So far this year, 46 persons have been killed, down from last year's figure of 68 murders at this time.

"A stickup in St. Louis used to be 'Your money or your said a cab driver. "Now it's 'Your money AND your The St. Louis was highest despite dramatic jumps in homicides recorded in other big American cities last year. Atlanta had a 60 percent increase in killings from 144 to 231 which translated to a rate of 51 per 100,000.

Houston's murder total rose from 462 in 1978 to 632 last year, or 42 killings per 100,000. Dallas, Miami and New York also recorded more murders in 1979. St. Louis civic leaders say the predominantly black enclaves on the north side, where murder is most frequent, have become virtual war St. Louis' chief prosecutor issued a public plea for help in curbing the violence.

In an open letter to black church leaders, Circuit Attorney George Peach said 84 percent of the 285 persons slain last year were black. In the cases that were solved, all the black victims were killed by other blacks, he added. Street violence APPh0, Body markiers such as this one show- streets. The city has ing position of a murder victim are seen distinction of "Murderf16 with increasing frequency on St. Louis Capital" USA.

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The burden of Solzhenitsyn's message this time is against what he regards as misconceptins about the relationship between Communism and Russia, where the system was first imposed. The grievous mistake, he writes, "is "anti-human in its essence," Solzhenitsyn says, is fostered by Western historians (He particularly attacks Richard Pipes of Harvard) and some recent Soviet emigres. "This interpretation," Solzhenitsyn writes, "currently enjoys wide support since it is so advantageous to many people: if the crimes and vices of communism are not inherent to it, but can be attributed entirely to the traditions of old Russia, then it follows than that there exists no fundamental threat to the Western world; the rosy vistas of detente are preserved, together with trade and even friendship with' communist countries, thereby ensuring continued comfort and security for the West. "Western communists are freed from incrimination and suspicion ('they'll do a better job; theirs will be a and the material well-being of the peasants was at a level which has. jieyer been reached under the Soviet regime "There was complete cultural freedom, the intelligentsia was; pot restricted in its activity, religious' and philosophical views of every shade were tolerated and institutions of higher education enjoyed inviolable-autonomy This picture is not merely dissimilar to that of the communistera, but it is in every respect its direct antithesis." Solzhenitsyn's contentions are bound to be controversial, considering the weight of historical evidence to the contrary.

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