St. Louis Hustle Podcast Ep 102 | Justice With Wesley Bell, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney
Channel: St. Louis Hustle Podcast
Date: 2022-03-22

Wesley Bell is the Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri. Elected in 2018, he is the first African American to hold this office, the chief law enforcement official for Missouri's most populous county with nearly a million constituents. 

Bell has a policy of aggressively charging and prosecuting violent crimes involving victims. For other, low-level, non-violent crimes, however, he introduced a Diversion Program that identifies defendants with substance abuse and mental health challenges who would benefit from treatment rather than punishment. The failure rate of this Diversion Program as of January 2022 is an astonishingly low 8.4%. More than 90% of the almost 1,500 defendants who have gone through this Diversion Program have stayed out of trouble and are productive citizens of St. Louis County rather than inmates in a Missouri prison. 

His office also plays a leading role in a multi-agency Jail Population Review Team that identifies defendants in pre-trial detention that can be released without endangering public safety. All of these efforts are based on data-driven decisions; Bell hired the office's first data analyst.

Bell introduced the office's first Conviction and Incident Review Unit which investigates and prosecutes police officers and other public officials who commit crimes. This unit also reviews past convictions brought by the office to ensure all past convictions have integrity.

Bell also expanded the office's community outreach efforts dramatically. Among many programs and initiatives, perhaps the most successful has been Community Case Review, where community members come into the office to learn about some aspect of criminal prosecution from the prosecutors, investigators, and victim advocates who work these cases.

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