LMPD officers shoot and kill armed man in southwest Louisville

The department avoids all talk of the adult gangs and other organized crime groups responsible for virtually all of the drug dealing in Louisville. They can only talk about the mythical "child gangs" and the rest is just random. If someone in a position of responsibility were really that ignorant, they would have to undergo a psych eval for dementia symptoms.

Reasons for the murders

- Surge of extremely cheap heroin being smuggled from Mexico to Louisville gangs.

- Complete lack of a realistic counter-gang or counter-drug strategy in Louisville. No gang unit and very weak intel and narcotics enforcement, mainly by patrol division flex units.

- Courts that rarely find a reason to keep anyone in prison more than a few months to a few years

- Complete disintegration of the family unit caused by a culture where religion is abandoned in favor of alternative music or hip hop rap-inspired drug culture. When all your heroes are druggies, you will be one too.

- Ex-pothead President and former member of pot smoker club "Choom Gang" who thinks we can just "drug rehab our way out of the problem" and enforcement is bad. Singlehandedly allowed decriminalization of the gateway drug by states, in violation of federal law. Never saw an illegal border crosser he didn't like.

May 10, 2016

"We don't have a gang problem like California, Oakland or Chicago, but we have a gang problem," councilman David James said. "The largeness of Bloods and Crips, they dominate our area of town," Ashanti said. "You can't really put a number on it because there is a Blood or Crip being born every day."

March 31, 2016

"Metro Police officials told council members the city is home to about 25 different gangs that are behind any number of criminal offenses such as street robberies, drug trafficking or home invasions." At least five groups of mostly juveniles who use social media and other online resources to connect with each other, promote their activities and recruit new members.

September 27, 2016

"We have a high concentration of gangs in the area" (west end) "It's been my experience down here that there always has been the gangs around but it seems like they're taking a bigger step up" "There's Victory Park, there's CNG which is Cecil and Greenwood, and there's MSG or Market Street Crypts,"

February 20, 2007

Target 32: Gangs A Growing Issue In Louisville

Documents Indicate Far-Reaching Scope Of Problem

69 different gang sets with about 2,000 estimated members, 846 of which had confirmed names and addresses. When mapped out by WLKY with information from the database, gangs affect all parts of the Louisville area, including southern Indiana. http://www.wlky.com/Target-32-Gangs-A-Growing-Issue-In-Louisville/9833742