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-War on Police-
Louisville Police: Department struggles to recruit as murders rise by 75 per cent
2021-04-29
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] More than 230 cops have left Louisville Metro Police Department since 2020

  • Departures come amid sharp spike in violent crime in the Kentucky city

  • Murders have risen by 75 per cent, while non-fatal shootings have gone up by 84 per cent

  • Department has been in turmoil since March 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor

  • Taylor, 26, fatally shot by cops executing no-knock search warrant at her home

  • Department of Justice announced it was reviewing policing in Louisville
Posted by:Fred

#4  #1 agree 100%.

However, after Kim Klacik, an attractive candidate who promised actually to do something in Baltimore, got 27% of the vote, I'm not optimistic.
Posted by: Tom   2021-04-29 14:53  

#3  The cops that are still in these blue areas are just propping up the corruption that is there.

All should resign and leave the people to their wonderful new utopia.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-04-29 09:07  

#2  Our urban utopias should require no policing. Yet another manufactured crisis.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-04-29 06:56  

#1  
Its not just the the poor pay for such a job.

Louisville Metro Police Department.
Salary for recruit in the academy = $39,998.40 or 19.22 p/hr
Salary for officer upon graduation = $45,489.60 or ($21.890 p/hr
+ State Incentive = $ 4,000.00

Total Take Home of $49,489.60 = 23.79 p/hr


I am betting it also has to do with:
* Being Shot at and vilified for enforcing the law.
* Being treated like scum 1 second and being called by the same idiots for help the next.
* Having their actions 2nd guessed by Touchy-Feely "SOCIAL ______" cause types that are only trying to incite the community for power and not fix the root cause ---> the Voter Plantation.
* Having less rights and access to equal justice in the media and the courts than the arrested criminals trying to injure or kill them.
* Having to follow a Political Agenda based arrest procedure that places them at great risk of death.
* Watching the media create fake news for profits despite the facts. Just to promote click-bait, political agenda / Social Cause advancement.

America Needs to face the Fact that:
* MOST cities run by Minorities / Liberal Democrats are failing.
* Most of the Businesses have moved outside the city tax base due to the citizens seeking safer shopping environments.
* A large portion of their voters are on the "handout wagon" and not a Tax Revenue source.
* Such Minority Controlled and Ran cities tend to have disproportionately HIGH Crime Rates.

The problem facing the next generation is what I call the Interstate Crime Virus creep of Minority Run Metro's.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-04-29 06:54  

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