Bullitt police sergeant nabbed in drug sting

LMPD has problems with recruits too. It doesn't help that they're having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fill a recruit class because nobody wants to work on LMPD.

I don't think you intended this statement this way - but how condescending can you get "not all laterals are bad." How about, most laterals are just fine? Almost everyone who works for LMPD left a job to go to work for LMPD, after all, given that you have to be 21, did you? What were THEY running from? Is there something inherently wrong, for example, for someone who moves to Louisville because they just got out of the military at Fort Knox, and because Shively is hiring, and they need a job now, they sign on there. A couple of years later, they realize that they'd rather work for a bigger agency, so ... they lateral over to LMPD. What, precisely, is wrong with that? People in the private sector change jobs regularly, for some reason, though, LMPD seems to think that changing agencies is a sin. The real problem is that those laterals may actually bring in new ideas and challenge the system, which is exactly what LMPD needs - NEW BLOOD. If that is the case, every last one of the LMPD officers getting ready to retire, and go over to the Sheriff's Department, or anywhere else, needs to think twice about it, since obviously, they are "running from something."