Mo. police secret settlements total $4.7M

By Jeremy Kohler St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — The fatal shooting of a man by a St. Louis police officer in 2012 that resulted in a murder charge last month raised questions of why city prosecutors did not review the case for more than four years. Even though the city paid $900,000 to the survivors of Anthony Lamar Smith in 2013, the case lay dormant until Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce …
Source: Police Updates
Mo. police secret settlements total .7M