Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/louisville/)
A woman’s death is putting a renewed focus on the flaws in the city’s criminal justice system that harm victims of domestic violence, and allow offenders to avoid accountability.
More than 20% of Kentucky children are growing up in poverty, but Black and Latinx children are worse off in the state’s most urban counties.
JCPS calls external police for a range of issues, but just how often that happens isn’t known. Because the district doesn’t track it.
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.
If Louisville closes its juvenile jail, it’s still unclear whether the state would open a new facility or send Louisville youth to other regional detention centers.
Data shows that poverty rates climb and populations wane in the neighborhoods where evictions have been the most common over the last 16 years.
Though black youth are less than 27 percent of Louisville’s youth population, they represented more than 75 percent of the youth bookings in Louisville’s secure detention center last year.
When a youth is accused of a crime in Kentucky, an adult has to make a choice in nearly every step that follows.
Allow the youth to avoid a formal charge, or bring the case to a judge? Send him home or to sleep in a cell? Put another way: Offer another chance, or deny it?
Disproportionately, the Kentucky youth denied that second chance are black.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer’s invite-only Derby weekend extravaganza cost taxpayers about $109,000 this year. But the mayor’s office keeps the guest list secret.
The bedbugs invade DeAnna Malone’s apartment every night. They creep through the vents in her bathroom. They crawl through the sockets on her wall and the cracks along the floor. They climb up her bed to feast. “They bite you, it feels like you’re on fire,” she said. Malone has lived with bedbugs at Dosker Manor for years. Her neighbors at the public housing complex say the whole place is infested.