I live in Louisville and downtown is sketchy with all the homelessness and lack of police around. We travel to Chicago a few times a year and I fee safer there than downtown Louisville. Yes we dont go to the south Chicago but we do venture off a few blocks of what would be considered the tourist part. The police presence is 1000% better than Louisville.Lexington to peaceful compared to Lill Chicago (Louisville) and it's liberal democrat leadership.
Violent weekend in Louisville leaves 15 people shot, 3 of them killed
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said Monday that the violent crimes being committed do not represent the city as a whole.www.wdrb.com
It’s really bad.
I would add easy access to guns as well, when everyone is packing and illegal drugs are involved shootings are inevitable
I didn't say that, but knew some knee jerk comment would follow, yet another bumper sticker slogan. Just stating the obvious that more guns in hands of criminals will inevitably lead to more shootings.
Yeah, I agree. Anthony Fauci and his ilk should be tarred and feathered for seeking nationwide lockdowns.
The point was that "crime" isn't high. ONE very specific crime is high. The entire conversation in this thread has been based on a false premise of "crime" and murder being high. It isn't.
The murder rate in Louisville has gone from 80-90 per year before the Taylor protests/riots to close to 150-200 in the years since. That is just one city but crime (murder, theft, carjackings, etc.) is at the highest level I have ever seen. A big part of it is the police force is short by over 200 officers. When they do arrest people, woke prosecutors are handing out slaps on the wrist to all but the worst crimes. Armed thieves are breaking into cars on a nightly basis even in the best neighborhoods. It's crazy.
Yeah, Louisville is an outlier. Vast majority of cities nationwide have trended back toward 2019 crime levels. Louisville has serious problems, and our 2 straight mayors basically appointed by the downtown business community and focused on not much else other than hotels and bourbon tourism haven't done much of anything for the city.The murder rate in Louisville has gone from 80-90 per year before the Taylor protests/riots to close to 150-200 in the years since. That is just one city but crime (murder, theft, carjackings, etc.) is at the highest level I have ever seen. A big part of it is the police force is short by over 200 officers. When they do arrest people, woke prosecutors are handing out slaps on the wrist to all but the worst crimes. Armed thieves are breaking into cars on a nightly basis even in the best neighborhoods. It's crazy.
With more than 20 homicides in Louisville, May ends as one of the deadliest months in recent years
With violence and deadly gunfire so prevalent, several Louisville mothers are remembering different times.
East Louisville car thefts, garage break-ins highlight safety issue plaguing residents across city
Thousands of cars are stolen in Jefferson County every year.
Here is truth. There is no fixing any of it without taking an honest look at who commits crime, and why.
Okay. Who commits crime and why? Last I checked, individuals of every race and creed commit crime and do drugs. Does every race and creed narrow it down?
Blaming Libs is lazy as also blaming the 5% "shitty cops." It all starts at the top and Fischer and Greenburg are not the answer. Look at JTown...their previous mayor did a phenomenal job in bringing small businesses to the area and they were taking all the good cops from LMPD much like St Matthews. No one wants to work for LMPD when they have no support and make arrests and nothing happens.
You are a complete idiot. Louisville's problem isn't the police; it's woke fools like you who have ruined the city.
Lol it's certainly a decision to claim a stranger online hates all cops because that stranger decides to say some cops are indeed shitty at their jobs and/or make shitty decisions.
The murder rate in Louisville has gone from 80-90 per year before the Taylor protests/riots to close to 150-200 in the years since. That is just one city but crime (murder, theft, carjackings, etc.) is at the highest level I have ever seen. A big part of it is the police force is short by over 200 officers. When they do arrest people, woke prosecutors are handing out slaps on the wrist to all but the worst crimes. Armed thieves are breaking into cars on a nightly basis even in the best neighborhoods. It's crazy.
With more than 20 homicides in Louisville, May ends as one of the deadliest months in recent years
With violence and deadly gunfire so prevalent, several Louisville mothers are remembering different times.
East Louisville car thefts, garage break-ins highlight safety issue plaguing residents across city
Thousands of cars are stolen in Jefferson County every year.
Remember when I mentioned how you seem to use "woke" in a bunch of your posts and then you called me a woke idiot or something, thus actually proving my point? Knew there was a specific reason why I had you on ignore. I'm 40, hoss. You're likely older than me and the above is how you interact with a stranger online? I'm sure your family wouldn't be at all embarrassed if you told them you were having a discussion on a forum and decided to quote a stranger and call them names out of nowhere.
You are a clown for pretending that you don't understand the meaning of the word woke. Look it up.
So in other words... police weren't defunded. Their budget wasn't reduced by a cent.
The only thing related to this in Louisville I can find was a Group Violence Intervention program involving police, along with people like ministers or community leaders, the articles are kind of vague, being in regular contact with gang members convicted of crimes and on parole to try to encourage them to reform and reinforce the threat of further jail/prison. Put in in response to the rising violence we've seen, not anything to do with "defunding police." It's a program that dates back to the 90s in other cities that had been successful (but from what I'm reading was halfassedly implemented in Louisville and may or may not have had any impact).I clearly said above it was a rallying cry rather than literal elimination.
Even so, the department in Louisville was absolutely cut. The mayor proudly talked and rerouting s bunch of those funds to the civilian intervention program. You know, the one where random people were paid 55k a year to supposedly try to intervene and deescalate any crime; whatever that means. Of course predictably it turned out these people were committing crimes themselves.
Also in these cities they all proudly announced social workers would now respond to many situations rather than police.
‘The criminals have control’: Residents frustrated with LMPD ‘no pursuit policy’ after thefts in Norton Commons, Glen Oaks
In what’s normally a quiet, tight-knit community, residents of Norton Commons say their sense of security has been taken away by repeated break-ins.www.wave3.com
Here is another headline this morning. I forgot they instituted the no chase policy. So unless the police easily apprehend a criminal, they can't pursue. It's working like you'd think.
