By Adam Allington, KWMU
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St. Louis, MO – In St. Louis gangs are accounting for a growing percentage of violent crime.
In an effort to control the situation police are saturating specific neighborhoods, recovering weapons and rounding up suspected offenders.
By most accounts this approach only provides a temporary solution for the problems caused by lack of jobs, poor schools and crumbling infrastructure.
In the last of his three part series on gangs in St. Louis, KWMU's Adam Allington takes a look at some city's response to the gang epidemic.