Well, yes and no. Women are probably less likely to be seen as suspicious overall than men, but black women are still often sucked into the “suspicious/potentially criminal black person” stereotype. Still, I do think it’s less likely to happen to black women than black or Latino men.
It’s just somewhat amusing, in a morbid way, that Baltimore - the city of The Wire, and pretty much the buzzword for urban decay before Detroit - has taken on a rosier image in the modern mind than St. Louis.