There were 950 troopers in 2003 when there were 4.1 million people in Kentucky. Today there are 80 fewer troopers and 300,000 more people in Kentucky. There's a 9 month backlog on rape kits at the KSP lab. You can get results in 3 weeks in other states. This is one of the few states without a genuine full service state investigation agency like the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. That may be why we never read about major drug busts in the paper.