Criminal Justice
Punished: Louisville Teens Charged As Adults Are Almost Always Black
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Of 126 individuals charged as “youthful offenders” in Jefferson County, 117 of them — 93 percent — were black.
Criminal Justice
For Louisville Offenders And Victims Alike, A New Label: ‘Public Nuisance’
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Louisville’s public nuisance ordinance is intended to provide a way to bust up drug houses and crime dens. But police and code enforcement officials have been increasingly focused on residential locations where crimes are reported — regardless of whether the victim or the offender lives there.
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Prosecution Declined
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LMPD asks prosecutors to review their rape cases and decide whether they should make an arrest. More often than not, the prosecutors say no.
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Conviction Or Not, Seized Cash Is ‘Cost of Doing Business’ In Louisville
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Money seized through asset forfeiture provides leverage in resolving drug trafficking cases and has become an ingrained aspect of the justice system in Louisville, our investigation found.
Criminal Justice
Louisville Police Expected A Grow Operation. They Found Christmas Lights.
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Officers said thermal images showed a heat signature “indicative of cultivating marijuana” at Tyrone Evans’s house. When they returned a few days later, they did not find any physical evidence of a grow operation.
Criminal Justice
ShotSpotter Tells Louisville Police About Gunshots, But Officers Rarely Look For Evidence
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Officers conduct required surveys on fewer than two out of every 10 ShotSpotter calls. The calls rarely lead to an arrest. The officers typically clear ShotSpotter scenes within minutes, and they seldom find evidence of a shooting.
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Drones, Guns And Light Bills: How Kentucky Police Spend Seized Cash
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Kentucky law says seized money must be used for direct law enforcement purposes. A KyCIR review of $3.7 million in spending records shows agencies take varied interpretations of that law.
Criminal Justice
More Louisville Catholic School Alums Allege Abuse By Coach
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Archdiocese of Louisville and parish school officials denied to KyCIR that they had any knowledge of the accusations against Drew Conliffe. They even denied knowing whether he coached at any parish school.
Louisville Police Close More Than Half Of Rape Cases Without Arresting Anyone
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The Louisville Metro Police Department closed hundreds of rape investigations in three years. Officers identified the suspects, knew where to find them and had probable cause to arrest them. But in a majority of these closed cases, LMPD officers made no arrests. The officers determined that arrests were just not possible in 51 percent of all 2014-16 rape cases. The agency marked the cases “cleared by exception,” a status intended for exceptional situations, and closed the case.
Criminal Justice
Second Sexual Assault Investigation Of Rep. Dan Johnson Brought Few New Details
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A case file released by LMPD last week shows that, even after the case was reopened, detectives did little investigating until the day before KyCIR published a sweeping investigation of Dan Johnson.