Don't blame the homicide unit. Crime in Louisville is changing. Homicide clearance rates drop as the percentage of homicides committed by people who knew the victims drop. If you have an increase in stranger-on-stranger homicides, then it's harder to make an arrest. Homicide is who handles the effects caused by ineffective crime control strategies. Many of the homicides are drug related. Louisville has a gang and organized drug trafficking problem but many people pretend it doesn't. The total absence