Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/louisville/)
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.
An ordinance barring Louisville police officers and employees from enforcing federal immigration laws cleared a first hurdle Wednesday and will soon be up for a vote by the Metro Council.
Entering the country illegally is a civil offense that LMPD officers don’t enforce. But a KyCIR investigation found that LMPD helps ICE with its enforcement when asked, a practice that runs counter to statements from city leaders and in contrast to the “compassionate city” image they project.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo has pledged to propose a constitutional amendment to allow as many as seven casinos to open in Kentucky. In announcing his proposal, Stumbo cited KyCIR’s examination of tax revenues from eight casinos just across state lines on the north bank of the Ohio River.