In many areas of St. Louis County, the County Police are not really enforcing “quality of life” issues which affect neighborhoods. This is referred to as “selective enforcement” and the police are not living up to their slogan of “Neighborhood Policing is Priority One. They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
One resident wrote saying this results in "visual pollution" and is just not acceptable. "Once you open the door to violations, more will creep in," commented another. "It's the same as graffiti." (Click on Photos to Enlarge)
In recent years it has come to signify a wider range of disruptions to environmental quality. Thus litter, billboards, and auto junkyards are said to constitute visual pollution; noise excessive enough to cause psychological or physical damage is considered noise pollution; and waste heat that alters local climate or affects fish populations in rivers is designated thermal pollution.
