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Crisis at Louisville Police: Department struggles to recruit as murders rise by 75 per cent and shootings rocket 84 per cent in wake of Breonna Taylor's killing
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 28 2021 | ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 04/28/2021 12:20:22 AM PDT by knighthawk

More than 230 cops have either retired or resigned from the Louisville Metro Police Department in the last 16 months as a spokesperson for its union says that staffing shortages have left the agency in ‘dire straits’ while violent crime rises.

The Kentucky city’s police department has been in turmoil since the March 2020 police-involved shooting of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old black EMT who was fatally shot in her home by officers executing a no-knock search warrant.

According to statistics provided by the LMPD on Tuesday, the department has seen about 190 officers leave last year and 43 depart so far this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: louisville; police

1 posted on 04/28/2021 12:20:22 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Simple Solution: Hire more convicted murderers and rapists. These people are disproportionally minority. This would not only solve the recruitment problem it would also eliminate any charges of discrimination in hiring.


2 posted on 04/28/2021 12:27:51 AM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: Vehmgericht

If this were a ‘business’ in dire need of employees...you’d eventually relax standards and lessen requirements.

Wouldn’t shock me if you started to accept violence-prone folks who quickly over-react, and trigger even more chaos. You might even reach a stage where non-Americans are accepted (with a visa)...out of Brazil or Columbia or Mexico....to fill the vacant positions.


3 posted on 04/28/2021 12:44:09 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: knighthawk

This murderous crime is a war against the social fabric of law and order. It has ceased to be criminal conduct. It is now terrorism. Time to treat it as such.


4 posted on 04/28/2021 12:47:56 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: knighthawk

Stick enough rats into a barrel with nothing and even 8f you feed them they will start eating each other. Louisville is just a big barrel full of rats and the cops are short staffed. Theres a shootout out on mlk drive and and old white man with no mask at Wal-Mart complaints. Which one are the cops red lighting it to first???? Whats next????


5 posted on 04/28/2021 12:58:01 AM PDT by Ikeon (my being offended don't mean squat in the real world of sane individuals. )
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To: knighthawk

Thats 15 million for you, and 15 million for you, and you and you! Thats right louisville! Everybody whos black gets 15 million if you have ever stood near a police officer! Awe heck, every black person in louisville gets 15 million!! ,


6 posted on 04/28/2021 1:00:54 AM PDT by Ikeon (my being offended don't mean squat in the real world of sane individuals. )
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To: knighthawk
From what I could find on the interwebs, Louisville has had 55 murders so far this year. Memphis, the next bigger city (by population) has had 63. Baltimore, the next smaller city (by population) has had 97.

These numbers were just what I could quickly find, so they could be off a little or a lot.

7 posted on 04/28/2021 1:02:06 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: pepsionice

Don’t forget Somalia. I was joking to an extent but this is the reality.


8 posted on 04/28/2021 1:13:23 AM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: knighthawk

Pass the popcorn please


9 posted on 04/28/2021 1:48:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: knighthawk

As crazy as the idea of “Defund the Police” is, the reality is that it’s happening...

Police Departments in a number of major cities are severely understaffed from retirements and resignations with no new recruits in the pipeline....

The other reality is cities will lower the standards and put a lower quality person who is poorly trained on the streets which will make the situation worse....


10 posted on 04/28/2021 2:22:45 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: Veggie Todd
A source I found earlier Fox News.com - Louisville police department staffing 'in dire straits' amid high crime rates, recruitment woes: union We live just south of Louisville, our hometown, and it hurts to see what it has become. We don't go downtown very much any more, and when we do we're armed. This Sat is the Kentucky Derby, can't wait to see what this year brings. Last yr NFAC showed up but thankfully we had enough of a State Police and National Guard presence that they (NFAC) just ended up walking around and looking stupid.
11 posted on 04/28/2021 2:37:42 AM PDT by Severa (I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
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To: knighthawk
As my screen name attests, I was born in Louavul. (Correct pronunciation for the natives.).

The problems there are because the west end has steadily marched into downtown. And these feral amish are doing what they always do, viz. chaos, crime and catastrophe.

There is no fixing the problem until we admit what the problem really is. But we can't do that because we're terrified of being accused of racism.

12 posted on 04/28/2021 2:57:16 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: knighthawk

Engineering a breakdown in social order is one of the steps in a communist revolution. Apparently things are going to plan.


13 posted on 04/28/2021 5:05:20 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: coloradan

Absolutely. While it’s satisfying in the short term to see those who want it suffer(and hopefully be the actual victims of the crime increase) in the long run it just leads to supplanting the local police with a federal force,or the military, which will be bad for us all.


14 posted on 04/28/2021 6:06:14 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: knighthawk
Let me guess.

It's racism because the violence is hitting the Black community hardest.

15 posted on 04/28/2021 7:03:52 AM PDT by blam
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To: knighthawk

There is another problem attached to the LEO retirements.

IF many are retiring early, the Pension Funds are getting hit hard.

Actuarial people set up such funds with municipalities based on usual retirement records.

This will push those budgets out of kilter AGAIN...meaning they will beg the FEDS for bailouts...

MARK MY WORDS..


16 posted on 04/28/2021 7:12:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: knighthawk

Ah yes........good old “mayor” Fisher - As in FISSURE - bending over for all ((( leftist ))) plans, to temporariloy make Blacks “happy”........until ,about....next month, then they WAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIILLLLLLLL regarding some other Typical N***er Problems they’re too IGNORANT to fix, so they Blame Whitey, and DEMAAAAAAAANNNNNNNND MO’ MUN-NAAAAYYYY!!!!


17 posted on 04/28/2021 10:07:38 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: knighthawk

It is obvious solution according to Biden.....

Joe! Biden says intel agencies determined white supremacy ‘most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/04/29/nice-try-joe-biden-says-intel-agencies-determined-white-supremacy-most-lethal-terrorist-threat-to-our-homeland-today-1066819/

The democrats are insane!


18 posted on 04/29/2021 9:18:16 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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