First you have to ask - why is Louisville NOT attracting qualified applicants? One reason is the lengthy delay in hiring because you have to wait to hire enough people to make up a class. If you could hire, instead, 5 at a time and send them to Richmond, throughout the year, you wouldn't keep "slipping the hook" on good applicants who decide to go elsewhere when they find out how long it takes to even get hired by LMPD. Do you really think that, for example, the new officers hired by Shively aren't