University of Missouri President Mun Choi declared a crime crisis in Columbia during a press conference Monday, even though numbers from the Columbia Police Department seem to contradict his claims.

Choi sent a letter to city and county leaders on Sept. 27 calling for them to address what he called the “rampant crime problem” in the city after a shooting downtown killed Stephens College student Aiyanna Williams over the weekend.

The letter called for immediate action -- more policing, hiring more security officers, eliminating policies and practices that Choi claims “attract criminals to the region,” passing a loitering ordinance, cleaning up homeless encampments and prosecuting crimes to the fullest extent of the law.

But when asked what policies and practices he believes “attract crim

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