Chief Steve Conrad shakes up Louisville police leadership, dismisses council's criticism

Most violent city in Kentucky......

Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky

> City violent crime rate: 422.9 per 100,000

> State violent crime rate: 218.7 per 100,000 (7th lowest)

> City poverty rate: 13.4%

> City unemployment rate: 4.1%

The Louisville metro area has the highest violent crime rate of any of the five metro areas in the state tracked by the FBI. Of the 96 murders in the metro area, 84 were in the Louisville city proper, making 2015 the city's deadliest year since at least 1980. In many U.S. cities, violent crime tends to be localized to certain parts of the city, and Louisville is no exception. About 75% of 2015 homicides in the city occurred in neighborhoods on the west side of Interstate 65.

City officials attribute the prevalence of violent crime to a number of causes, including drug addiction and the availability of illegal guns.