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

Ghetto tourism has become a little more popular among 5.11 khakis wearing dudes with pomade in their hair. Few of them have any practical street experience and are are led by people who haven't cared that much about violent crime in the last 20 years. The average officer is in a similar situation. They're able to see branches and occasionally the trees, but don't see the forest they're working in. Command provides all the expert guidance you'd expect of the average viewer of Law and Order yelling at their screen in the evenings.

Command desperately needs to hire in some retired Lt's, Captains and Majors from other departments who kept their gang units to act as advisors to all levels of the command staff from the Chief to the Majors. There will always be knuckleheads who won't take advice, so the more people getting direct good advice the better.

LMPD doesn't even have a written counter-gang strategy. Here's where I'll cut and paste since this isn't an original idea at all.

https://measured.design/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Counter-Gang-Strategy_-Adapted-COIN-for-LE.pdf

Key Elements of a Counter-Gang Strategy:

Locating and Establishing Relationships with Trusted Community Leaders: Law enforcement must actively seek out trusted community leaders (TCLs) and develop these people as intelligence assets. These individuals must be local residents or local business operators with both established roots in the community and acceptance as "persons of significant standing" by other members of the community"

Recruitment of Local "Street Leaders" by TCLs: TCLs should be expected to recruit street leaders. The street leader is an individual known and trusted by the TCL and suggested to law enforcement for cooperation. These street leaders are vetted by law enforcement and, passing this, can provide information covertly to

law enforcement.

Development of Intelligence Gathering and Processing Capabilities and the Tactical (Street) Level: Every local police station should have one officer specifically trained in intelligence collection and processing. They prepare detailed reports to a headquarters intelligence office and their local COs that includes suggested operations based on that intelligence.

Intelligence-driven Operations: Law enforcement should use aggressive counternetwork targeting models such as Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, and Analyze (F3EA) to find criminal actors, fix their location, and quickly move in to apprehend or "finish" the offender(s) (Faint

& Harris, 2012; Flynn, Juergens, & Cantrell, 2008). Information gathered on-scene is then exploited for new intelligence and analyzed to drive the next operation in a cyclical pattern.