In the next few months, the city will hire an expert to determine the appropriate size of the Louisville Metro Police Department.

Council President Jim King and police officials both confirmed Monday that the police will issue a formal Request for Proposals by June for a consultant to assess what's known as the department's "authorized strength."

Dwight Mitchell, a spokesperson for police, said Police Chief Steve Conrad hopes to have the results known by September.

A Louisville Metro Police officer won a $450,000 settlement this week in a whistleblower case against his own employer: Metro Government.

LMPD Officer Barron Morgan says he was demoted for helping a woman who was in prison for a murder she did not commit.

"I am somewhat relieved that it's over," said Morgan.

Despite being soft spoken, the former narcotics detective did speak up when he needed to.

According to information provided to the FBI today, the group responsible for the "mob violence" in and around Waterfront Park this past weekend is a gang of middle school students known as YNO, which stands for "Young 'N Off That" ("off that" is slang for crazy or out of control). YNO may also refer to themselves as "Squad." YNO did not gather at Waterfront Park to memorialize Me'Quale Offutt, the boy who was killed on the TARC bus on 3/16, as was reported by the media. YNO members went to Waterfront Park to fight another local gang (believed to be TYS - Trill Young Savages) whose members had been "talking smack" about Offutt. TYS members apparently didn't show, which is when the "mob violence" ensued.

There is "no evidence" that police leaders ordered officers to underreport incidents of crime at Waterfront Park or anywhere else, the head of the Louisville Fraternal Order of Police told Metro Council members.

Those rumors have swirled since an outburst of mob violence started at the park March 22, FOP President Dave Mutchler said during a Wednesday meeting of the council's public safety committee.

Public safety dispatchers serve as an unseen, but vital link in keeping law enforcement officers and the public safe at all times of the day and night.

On the night of May 5, 2013 Miria Thomas, a Kentucky State Police Dispatcher in Madisonville received a text message at home from a fellow dispatcher saying they had a subject barricade himself in an abandoned apartment and was feeling homicidal and suicidal.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has addressed a letter to citizens in an effort to ease recent apprehensions over violence downtown.

The letter is dated for Monday April 7, 2014. It is divided into sections that each deal with a specific aspect of the city's plan to increase safety downtown and serve to reassure citizens.

In it, Mayor Fischer says the starting point for all conversation on this matter is that violence of any form will not be tolerated.

Louisville Metro Police have arrested a man who flagged down a police officer because he needed someone to jump-start a vehicle that turned out to be stolen.

It happened Wednesday just after 11:30 p.m., according to an arrest report. That's when police say they were flagged down by 24-year-old Wyatt E. Thompson in a dimly lit parking lot near the corner of 3rd St. and York St. because he needed a jump for his vehicle.

The case of a Jefferson County teacher accused of killing a woman in a drunk driving crash will not see the inside of a courtroom for now.

The case against Christopher Purcell has been dismissed. It's one of dozens of criminal cases involving Officer Christopher Thurman.

Thurman, the lead investigator, was unavailable or willing to testify after he was indicted on charges of official misconduct and theft.