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Updated: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
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LMPD shoots robbery suspect in the Portland neighborhood

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RE: LMPD shoots robbery suspect in the Portland neighborhood

May 4th, 2018 @ 8:52AM (6 years ago)

The politicians of a liberal Democrat city like Louisville prefer to have a department that spends its time on community relations feel-good photo op events handing out free food with a smile for kids. They give lip service to stopping murders and other violent crime. As as soon as the department begins to do something about it, such as support the recent gang bill to keep gang members behind bars for 85% of their sentences, they start b1tching and protesting. If the Chief issued all officers a rifle, created a true Gang Unit or requested 300 more officers for the street, they'd rake him over the coals in one of their live-streamed circlejerks on Metro TV about it. They want to have their cake and eat it too and only oppose Fischer in a few minor respects.

The only hope this city has is the US Attorney, ATF and DEA continue to pick up the pace with the violent gang-related crime and the Chief continues to provide them with officers to help do that. The task forces are doing more of what the Street Crimes Unit and Metro Narcotics did about 20 years ago and stopped doing under White and Conrad. Louisville Metro was never any good at fighting crime and probably never will be, but at least they can let the feds lead that work.