[SLB]

I have been watching the live stream while at work. Very moving funeral (aren’t they all?) I have heard it was a work (drug) related payback. The city drug culture is starting to move into small towns across the country. Don’t have an answer.

[Jeff Head]

We have to take an old time attitude with law enforcement towards drug trafficking. Not likely to happen in this country until there is a larger train wreck that humbles the population as a whole and causes us all to revert back to our basic, fundamental moral values and defend them with gusto.

I know when I used to visit Taiwan on business that there was a huge sign when you entered the area after customs...in several languages...that said, "ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFICKING IS PROHIBITED ON PAIN OF DEATH."

...and they meant it.

IMHO, we need to empower our rural county Sheriff's Departments to proscute and go after Drug Traffickers with that same amount of gusto and deadly serious intent. Like they used to do for horse and cattle thiefs.

Back then, it was correctly calculated, in the more austere environement in which people lived, that a person taking your horse or cattle was a deadly threat to you and yours. Drug Trafficking is an equally deadly threat to us today.

I know it is hard for people to comprehend or accept right now...but a general "shoot on site," order for drug trafficking would go a long ways to cleaning it up...and the corruption that goes with it.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Earlier today I spoke with a friend of mine who manages a store in Bardstown and is acquaintances with several members of the Bardstown PD. Apparently Bardstown and US Highways 150 and 31E have become a major trafficking route for meth being manufactured in Central and Southeastern Kentucky that is bound for Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Chicago. By taking this route they avoid I-75 and I-64, where the KSP has become quite adept at intercepting shipments.

Officer Ellis was the department's K-9 handler, so he was involved in a number of drug busts in the last couple of years. Apparently the Bardstown PD and State Police are all but positive that this was a revenge killing stemming from one of his drug busts.

[Squantos]

Dang .... This is just a drug related hit ?

Prayers for the officers family.

Stay safe SLB !