Once Kentucky Derby 134 was in the history books, the goal of Louisville Metro Police was to keep traffic moving, especially on Broadway, and to prevent any violence.

More than 300 officers were staged at nearly every intersection along Broadway. While there were virtually no arrests Friday night, on Saturday, police reported 22 felony and 68 misdemeanor arrests.

Officers also recovered three stolen vehicles and seized 14 handguns.

And it was a little noisy along Broadway Saturday night -- there were 29 citations for noise ordinance violations.

Three people were cited for actually cruising.

Once again Derby has rolled around and we find ourselves outgunned, outmanned and working long hours…for what? It seems everyone wants to be part of the Derby Festival, woo-hoo! The city can’t say no to any group and now details overlap details and the people that suffer the most are the citizens who are getting no police protection.

Do you know who is protecting your neighborhood over the next couple of days? Each division is running with 1 detective and the minimum number of officers deemed safe. This means safe for Officers not for civilians. What it means that on each shift for 8 divisions there are probably less than 50 Officers protecting all of Jefferson County. If you have to wait awhile when your house is being broken into, please be patient, someone will get there eventually, as soon as they can, but it may be awhile. If you’re being robbed please press1 for English and …..well, you get the picture.

I thank my brothers of Native American descent that did a rain dance this week. It appears that once again Mother Nature will be our biggest ally. We sure as hell can’t count on the Mayor or the Chief to provide support. I hope it pours rain the whole weekend. That is the only thing that keeps the idiots at bay. Louisville is a breath away from a full scale disaster. We don’t have the Officers to fight crime… We don’t have the Firefighters to battle the blazes…. we don’t have the Paramedics and EMTs or their equipment to respond to the community’s needs. Abramson has put not only the safety of every 1st responder at risk, but he has put the safety of the entire community at risk.

Every year the puzzle palace does the warm and fuzzy thing after the disastrous details are over, they ask people to send them any comments or suggestions on how they can improve. I am surprised they don’t have freakin’ bumper stickers on all our mobile equipment. Make sure you tell them exactly what is wrong… Do the community a favor and post it here also. That way we can all see just how big the problem is and they cannot hide their heads in the sand or try to cover up the issues.

Be safe out there this weekend and God Bless all of our First Responders!

The Ville Voice

This is just the start of a story about Southfields, the 60-acre site that was sold by Metro Government for $2.7 million in 2006. Polo Fields, Inc. made the high bid, but the bidding process has been criticized by developers and council members, including Hal Heiner, whose district includes the site.

“The decision to sell the property was incorrect, and the sale was poorly handled,” said Heiner, who voted against selling the property three years ago. Heiner, a real estate developer, said the property should have been valued higher due to its proximity to Long Run Park, the Polo Fields golf community and its relative flat land.

“The sale, in my opinion, was improperly handled,” he said. “It should have brought $4 million, at least.”

But it didn’t, primarily because the bid process, conducted by Metro’s Department of Purchasing, didn’t allow developers the time to properly evaluate the property. “You don’t try to sell a $1 million house in a week,” Heiner said.

The property’s original bid was announced with just a few weeks for developers to get their bid documents prepared, in December 2005. It was originally awarded to Ball Homes for $2.3 million. But after protests about the bidding process, including a lawsuit brought against the city by Chris Thieneman, the city re-bid the project in the spring of 2006.

By Janelle MacDonald
WAVE 3l

Police got a call at 10:50 p.m. from the wife of 33-year-old Douglas Frakes Jr. about a domestic battery. Frakes's wife and her brother had fled the home, and told police that Frakes chased them.

Police arrived at the scene on State Road 62 at 11:03 p.m. and searched the home, but didn't find Frakes. So officers decided to check the home of Frakes's sister.

Clark County Sheriff Danny Rodden says that's when it appears 33-year-old Douglas Frakes Jr. was waiting in a wooded area for officers and fired on them with a shotgun when they arrived at the scene at 11:03 p.m.

Police told us Frakes had hidden his vehicle to help set up the ambush.

"The perpetrator was waiting in the woods and fired on our officer as soon as he stepped out of the car," Rodden said. "Our officer was just blindsided."

Other officers returned fire and moved Meyer to safety, and he was flown to University Hospital where he underwent surgery early Tuesday morning. He was scheduled to see a neurosurgeon later in the day.

A Pataskala home was where prosecutors said the alarming event took place.

The tape and the crime were discovered when a camcorder was sold to a Columbus pawn shop. Hard to believe, it's harder to watch.

At first, it appeared a male was smoking marijuana through a pipe and a baby was playing nearby.

Then the unthinkable happens. The male, whom police said was 18-year-old Melvin Blevins, was seen passing the pipe to the baby. You see the 18-month-old little girl resist and video cut to black. But what was recorded next likely will stun you.

16-year-old Angel Dailey, identified by police, was seen holding the little girl. The male was seen placing the pipe in front of the child's mouth. Police believed the videotaped child to be Blevins' niece.

Police arrested 16-year-old Dailey. She was charged with child endangerment and corrupting another with drugs.