Criminal Justice
The model city: Inside LMPD’s failure to reform itself
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Louisville portrayed itself as a police department that would show the rest of the country how to reform. That facade came crumbling down in 2020.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/author/eklibanoff/)
Louisville portrayed itself as a police department that would show the rest of the country how to reform. That facade came crumbling down in 2020.
In court records, Det. Jason Moseley says that a woman alleged a fellow detective sexually assaulted her — and he got demoted for reporting it.
Before he was arrested earlier this month for domestic violence, Louisville Metro Police Officer Harry Seeders had a long history of similar allegations. The police department was aware of this record when they hired him.
The details of the 2016 allegations — and how little LMPD did with that information — raise additional questions about one of the department’s more prolific cops.
Activists say if community members aren’t allowed into the current negotiations, it could be five years or more before the chance comes again.
Capt. Michael Webb was reassigned on Jan. 8 from his position in the recruitment branch to the Inspections and Evaluations Branch.
The old policy stressed that officers should only shoot at a moving vehicle “when it does not create an unreasonable risk of harm to innocent persons.”
The city and state police had an agreement dictating the terms of KSP investigating LMPD’s police shootings. But it was revoked, and no one is saying why.
The reform could have major repercussions for transparency and accountability — the exact issues this change was intended to address.
Tammy Riggs was at work when she got an alert on her phone from a local news station about a police shooting. She watched the station’s live video stream for hours. “And I didn’t know it was my son,” she said.