Some Metro workers double, triple salaries with overtime

Then why don't their graduations make the front page of Metro? For the first time, the reporter actually mentioned them, but you never, EVER, see photos of their graduation - it's always LMPD - and guess what, you aren't the only police department in the county. Why does LMPD assume that it will investigate every major crime in the county - as if those other agencies aren't capable of doing it?

Here's a question for you, how many police chiefs are there in Jefferson County?

If an LMPD officer makes a stop in side one of the cities that have a police department - who do they call for backup? Do they call the city they are in? Why didn't someone call over to Shively to back up Grignon, for example? It is technically possible to at least monitor those frequencies, even if there isn't a protocol to communicate on the freqs. I've been glad to see U of L PD getting some coverage for their attempts to protect their students who don't even live on campus - yes, they are leaving their campus to try to protect students who live on a metro beat. (Because, on the flip side, if you want to be a real city, you should have your own police department.)

Uhhh, simple - if you went over to, say, Shively, how much training would you expect to have to take before you got on the road? And compare that to how much training LMPD expects of its lateral recruits that are ALREADY CERTIFIED KENTUCKY OFFICERS - there tells the tale.

While individual officers may have the utmost respect for other officers in the county, your agency considers them to be less than worthy - remember, your agency didn't consider an officer that IT TRAINED to be worthy of becoming an LMPD officer without going to another full basic training class - how stupid was that? He should have been on the streets in weeks, not months. Why doesn't your agency see a difference between fully certified Kentucky officers (some from within Jefferson County, so they already even know how the court system works) and officers from outside the state who are going to need more training on Kentucky issues? If your agency was serious about filling vacancies, it would look for a new way of doing things.