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Louisville Police Merit Board upholds firing of Joshua Jaynes for lying in Breonna Taylor warrant

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RE: Louisville Police Merit Board upholds firing of Joshua Jaynes...

July 9th, 2021 @ 10:39AM (3 years ago)

It's actually a lot worse that that. The various administrations running LMPD and the other so-called leaders of Louisville Metro have been doing their best to undermine effective law enforcement since the creation of Louisville Metro. It actually began a little before that with David Armstrong as Mayor of the old city, when he fired a chief for promoting an officer having a recent justified shooting that the activists deemed a "murder" like they do for most police shootings. The old LPD held a large protest against him about 20 years ago. That's when they started making police political by switching civil service captains over to political appointee majors and disbanding proactive units one after the next, including the gang squad, street crimes unit, metro narcotics, and the division flex platoons. Every time a unit started making some good arrests, like when a flex platoon teamed with a federal agency to arrest some gang members, they'd get split up and the people moved back to the beat. They put some of the least productive laziest people in whatever was left over. You saw a few years ago what that turned into, a lot of overtime theft and playing golf.

The consistent theme of the last 20 years has been don't go arresting felons, because their activist friends might get vocal down at city hall. Now you have the liberal democrat Biden administration riding in on their high horse to offer the same bad direction they offered the last dozen cities they went to. All of them have had violent crime go up by another 50% or more.

Chief Shields may have the best of intentions, but I believe she will find in the end that you can't fix stupid. Louisville's murders will continue to rise, the emboldened liberals will continue to protest at the first sign of proactive policing, and the good decent people will continue to move out of the county.

RE: Louisville Police Merit Board upholds firing of Joshua Jaynes...

July 9th, 2021 @ 2:33PM (3 years ago)

Why is there a DOJ investigation? An officer got shot and officers returned gunfire. It's unfortunate that Taylor died, but her boyfriend made that fateful decision that led to a string of events. And still to this day, almost a year and a half later, nobody in any position of authority has yet to explain why they feel that this was somehow a racial incident or had anything to do with race. Just because Taylor was black and the officers were white? Is that the new standard??? Or is it just because it involved the police, and it still wouldn't have mattered even if the officers had also been black?