#homicides in louisville

[passed-out-real]

Andre Braugher Filmography Part 1

Glory (1989)

Striking Distance (1993)

Primal Fear (1996)

City of Angels (1998)

Homicide: Life on the Street (1993‑1998)

Louisville (1998)

Frequency (2000)

Duets (2000)

Thief (2006)

Poseidon (2006)

#Andre Braugher #Glory #Striking Distance #Primal Fear #City of Angels #Homicide: Life on the Street #Louisville #Frequency #Duets #Thief #Poseidon

[gatheringbones]

[“The fact remains that the most effective long-term solutions to protecting and empowering victims of abuse are policy changes that would grant victims reliable access to health care, housing, livable income, paid sick leave, child care, and safety from criminalization. Yet bureaucratic impediments on the federal level, lack of leadership from Democrats as a serious “opposition party” against Republicans, and general inaction have stalled meaningful, nationwide, progressive economic legislation for decades. As a result, too many victims are forced to stay in dangerous, traumatizing relationships solely for economic reasons, in a country where poverty can be a death sentence, and those who experience poverty are disproportionately policed for “survival crimes”—what we call being punished by the state for its own failure to invest in community resources, and its reliance on commodifying and profiting off incarcerating the most vulnerable.

Despite how frequently cases of rape and domestic abuse are invoked to justify policing and prisons, women who are victims of abuse face more severe punishment for “enabling” child abuse, pregnancy loss, or even surviving abuse, broadly, than their abusers do. The many documented cases of this include Marshae Jones, a Black woman in Alabama who was jailed for fetal homicide in 2019 after miscarrying from being shot in the stomach. Sex workers who report being victimized are disbelieved and often criminalized by police officers themselves (a 2007 study found 44 percent of police officers said they were unlikely to believe a report of rape from a sex worker), while the rapes and sexual violence cases of Black and Indigenous women and girls are chronically ignored by police departments and media.

Victims of abuse with the least resources and social capital are more likely to face punishment than anything else when they seek help from authorities, rendering it more likely they would seek criminalized means to protect or provide for themselves. In too many documented cases that disproportionately implicate people of color, pregnant people are criminally charged for ostensibly endangering fetuses—for example, due to substance use struggles—and even prior to the overturning of Roe, for self-managed abortions. Many pregnant people have faced charges or incarceration for miscarriage or stillbirth, and even for harms inflicted on them while they were pregnant, like Marshae Jones.

This is in part because about forty states have feticide laws that were written with the intention of protecting pregnant people from domestic violence. It’s an important crisis to address, given how high homicide rates targeting pregnant people are. Yet all too often, feticide laws are co-opted and misused by anti-abortion activists and prosecutors to criminally charge pregnant people who lose their pregnancies. Misuse of fetal homicide laws has contributed to the nearly 1,300 criminal charges for pregnancy loss doled out between 2006 and 2020 alone—a number that’s tripled from 1973 to 2005, according to research from Pregnancy Justice. Let’s not forget that it’s police officers who are the primary enforcers of abortion bans, a role they’ve enthusiastically stepped into: In February 2022 the city of Louisville paid a police officer $75,000 in settlement fees almost a year after the officer was suspended for protesting outside a local abortion clinic while armed and in uniform. After being suspended with pay for almost half a year in 2021, the officer sued the city for supposedly violating his constitutional rights while off-duty and discriminating against him for his “pro-life” views. The incident is part of a long history of police officers either ignoring or enabling violent anti-abortion protesters at clinics, and apparently even joining protesters themselves.

Fetal homicide laws are just one example of legislation that accords unborn fetuses with legal personhood rights, resulting in extensive legal risks for pregnant people, and particularly those who experience abuse. Dana Sussman, deputy executive director of Pregnancy Justice, told me in 2022 that there’s “simply no way to grant fetuses ‘personhood rights’ without subjugating the rights of pregnant people by creating a false tension between the rights of the fetus and the rights of a pregnant person.” When a pregnant person’s “rights are secondary to the fetus, or at odds with the fetus, that lends to an environment in which violence—whether it’s state violence like imprisonment, or interpersonal violence—can be committed against pregnant people with far less accountability.”]

kylie cheung, from survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy, 2023

#kylie cheung #currently reading #cw rape #cw abuse #history stuff

[odinsblog]

“Grand jury member certainly seems to be implying that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron lied about the Grand Jury proceedings re: Breonna Taylor.”

This wasn’t the only dubious claim that Cameron expected the public to take at face value. He also said that the grand jury agreed that Taylor’s death was justified. “While there are six possible homicide charges under Kentucky law,” he explained, “these charges are not applicable to the facts before us because our investigation showed — and the grand jury agreed — that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon.” But the grand jury may not have actually agreed.

On Monday, one of the jurors took the extraordinary step of filing a court motion to make transcripts of the grand jury deliberations public and allow its members to speak publicly about how they unfolded, according to the New York Times. Grand jury deliberations are subject to strict secrecy, and the evidence they consider usually only becomes public in court if there’s prosecution. The unnamed juror claimed that Cameron had misrepresented the jury’s case to the public, and that the jurors were never given the option to indict officers Mattingly and Cosgrove. If true, this would appear to undermine Cameron’s claim that the jury was unanimous that Taylor’s death was legally justified.

It also casts more doubt on his earlier accounts. Cameron’s claim that the officers clearly identified themselves — and therefore weren’t executing a no-knock warrant — is supported by the testimony of the officers themselves and one witness, a neighbor of Taylor’s. But roughly a dozen other neighbors claim not to have heard anything until the police battered in Taylor’s door. And investigative documents recently obtained by the Louisville Courier-Journal show that the AG’s lone nonpolice witness originally said they heard nothing, only changing their story months later when investigators circled back for another interview.

👉🏿 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/daniel-cameron-lied-about-grand-jury-louisville-police-breonna-taylor.html

In addition to the police working with business to gentrify non-white neighborhoods, the police may also be using GPS trackers on cars belonging to activists:

👉🏿 https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/us/breonna-taylor-lawsuit-gentrification/index.html

#breonna taylor #daniel cameron #politics #police #republicans #sayhername #gentrification

[truecrimecrystals]

Angela Nelson-Carroll was found brutally murdered in Louisville, Kentucky on May 31st, 2004. 

That morning, road crews were picking up garbage off of Gene Snyder Freeway when they spotted upon something unexpected: the body of a young girl. Police were called, and the area was subsequently closed off as a crime scene. A short time later, the body was identified as that of Angela Nelson-Carroll. She was only 17 years old.

Angela's death was labeled a homicide. She suffered head injuries due to blunt force trauma and she also had been strangled. It is believed that Angela was attacked before her body was discarded on the freeway. One of the road crew workers who spotted Angela's body said that it looked like her body had been purposely pushed/rolled down an embankment. 

No suspects have ever been publicly identified in Angela's case. Reports from 2004 state that Angela was married to a man named Robert Carroll. Robert, then 25, was incarcerated at the time of Angela's murder and was quickly ruled out as a suspect. A report on Angela's case from 2014 also references a boyfriend. Specifically, the report states, "at the time of her murder, Angela's boyfriend was questioned but was never named a suspect." 

It was also reported in 2014 that investigators initially had "several persons of interest but each one has been cleared." The same report said that DNA from the crime scene has been entered into the database, but so far, there has not been a match. Since then, it appears that there have not been any updates in Angela's case.

Angela's murder remains unsolved today. If you have any information that could lead to the arrest of her killer(s), please submit a tip. 

#angela nelson-carroll #unsolved #unsolved murder #true crime #true crime research #2004 #tcoriginal #kentucky

[beardedmrbean]

Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved a $5 million expansion of the use of license plate readers across the city, using federal pandemic relief funds.

It's the latest City Council vote on surveillance technology that has ignited debate in the community. Other surveillance tools Detroit police utilize include ShotSpotter — City Council last year OK'd spending $8.5 million on the gunshot detection technology amid fierce support and opposition — Project Green Light video surveillance and facial recognition technology

Two City Council members voted against the license plate reader spending: Gabriela Santiago-Romero and Latisha Johnson.

Detroit police have used license plate readers since 2018. But with the city's new contract with Motorola Solutions, an additional 100 cameras will be set up at 25 intersections, according to Detroit police. There are currently 83 cameras set up at intersections, in addition to over 100 mobile cameras.

The vast majority of community members who tuned in to Tuesday's council vote urged their city leaders to approve the $5 million dollar contract in hopes that it could address speeding on Detroit's roads — but using license plate readers for traffic and civil infractions goes against Detroit police policy.

According to Detroit Police Department policy, license plate readers are used in investigations involving auto theft — which Detroit has seen more of in the past year — and violent crimes such as homicides and sexual assaults.

The cameras are focused on the rear of vehicles and photos are taken of license plates, Deputy Chief Franklin Hayes said during an hourlong debate prior to Tuesday's vote. The cameras do not capture the faces of drivers and are not used to identify them, he said. Officials in other cities, like Louisville, Kentucky, have reported otherwise, stating license plate readers can be used to capture faces.

Data retrieved from Detroit's license plate readers is saved for 90 days, Hayes said.

Police Chief James White described license plate readers as "one of the most useful and powerful tools that we have" during Tuesday's debate.

He noted the technology was used to locate Rashad Trice, the man charged in the killing of 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith — the child was kidnapped in Lansing and later found dead in Detroit, and Trice, the prime suspect, was located in St. Clair Shores.

"Certainly we don't want anyone to abuse this tool," White added.

Many community members have opposed using more license plate readers. They spoke of civil liberty and privacy concerns amid growing reliance on surveillance technology, questioned the technology's effectiveness and questioned who owns the data, and how it's protected.

One major concern involves potential harm the technology could cause in Detroit's immigrant communities. White said it's against department policy to share data with government agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S Customs and Border Protection.

Sean Rositano, who works with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center and is a member of the Detroit Immigration Task Force, said representatives of the task force met with Detroit police and aren't convinced the department's policies provide enough protection for immigrant communities.

"Cities nationwide have fought to limit license plate readers because researchers have shown ICE and Custom and Border Protection regularly purchase access to Motorola’s license plate databases," Rositano said on Monday during the City Council's public health and safety committee meeting.

"We do not want Detroit immigrant families separated, detained or deported because their license plate was stored in a database that immigration enforcement agencies can access. (Detroit police) would need to make amendments to its policies and contract with Motorola to ensure that safety of immigrants comes first."

Rositano suggested Detroit police limit agencies it shares data with, strengthen its oversight and provide transparent reporting to ensure ICE and CBP do not have access to Detroit’s data.

A spokesperson for the Detroit Police Department said the department owns the data collected by its license plate readers.

Santiago-Romero shared Rositano's concern over potential harm against immigrants in Detroit.

And she, among others, also questioned the technology's effectiveness compared with its cost.

Santiago-Romero noted that, according to Detroit police data, the technology conducted nearly 25 million license plate readings in the last 90 days, leading to only 64 arrests.

But White pushed back: Among the 64 people arrested, 16 are suspected of murder, he said.

"Sixteen murderers. That's the cost," White said.

#nunyas news

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Abortion could be prosecuted as criminal homicide under bill filed by Kentucky lawmaker

BY ALEX ACQUISTO AND AUSTIN HORN

Illegal abortions in Kentucky could be prosecuted as murder under a new bill from a Louisville Republican.

Rep. Emily Callaway, R-Louisville, filed the “Prenatal Equal Protection Act” on Tuesday, which proposes that unlawful pregnancy termination “shall be subject to the same legal principles as would apply to the homicide of a person who had been born alive,” according to the bill language.

Criminal homicide under Kentucky law means a person is “guilty of causing the death of another human being under circumstances which constitute murder,” first and second degree manslaughter, or reckless homicide. Callaway’s House Bill 300 proposes broadening the definition of “human being” to also include an “unborn child.”

Abortion is already illegal and criminalized in Kentucky, except in cases where termination is necessary to save the life of a pregnant person – a too-narrow exception Kentucky providers have said harms pregnant patients and deprives them of medically-recommended care.

A trigger law banning abortion except in medical emergencies and a six-week ban on abortion took effect in June after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. Kentucky’s bans do not include exceptions for rape, incest, or for pregnant minors.

Kentucky’s current trigger law aims to prosecute doctors who provide unlawful abortions, while pregnant people who get an abortion are not subject to prosecution. But Callaway’s proposed bill would allow for pregnant people and their doctors to be prosecuted.

Callaway is a first-year representative, having beaten Democratic incumbent Rep. Jeff Donohue by 14 points in a South Louisville district that changed significantly after the GOP-led redistricting effort last year.

Exceptions under the bill include abortions necessary to “avert the death of the pregnant woman;” in cases of “spontaneous miscarriage;” or when abortion is provided only after “all reasonable alternatives to save the life of the unborn child are unavailable; or were attempted unsuccessfully before the performance of a medical procedure.”

The bill makes clear the Attorney General’s office would have concurrent jurisdiction over prosecuting this crime, along with county and commonwealth’s attorneys.

But Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, ardently supportive of Kentucky’s bans on abortion, was quick to criticize Callaway’s bill on Wednesday, saying it “strikes the wrong balance.”

“While I strongly support prohibiting abortions in Kentucky, I just as strongly support helping pregnant women,” Cameron said in a statement, calling on lawmakers not to support the bill. “Pregnant mothers deserve our help, support, and life-affirming options, not to face criminal charges.”

He touted Kentucky’s trigger law as one that “appropriately values the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn child, (because) it does not permit the prosecution of pregnant mothers.”

Kentucky, along with dozens of other states, already has fetal homicide laws on the books. Recognizing fetal personhood, the commonwealth’s laws dating back to 2004 make it a criminal offense to cause the death of an “unborn child.”

But not only do those laws only refer to perpetrators with “he” and “him” pronouns, the list of exceptions makes clear doctors who provide abortions to their consenting patients are not guilty of fetal homicide.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, a handful of GOP-controlled states have floated bills to make abortion a crime of homicide. But even in states that have aggressively restricted abortion access, it’s a hard sell. A proposal in Louisiana last year that would’ve allowed women who get abortions and doctors who provide them to be charged with murder was withdrawn after a firestorm of opposition.

Callaway’s bill is ostensibly aimed at people who coerce pregnant people into getting abortions, even though it also carries punitive measures for pregnant people: “Pregnant mothers should be protected from being pressured to abort their children by repealing provisions that may otherwise allow a person to solicit, command, aid or counsel a mother to abort her child,” the bill reads.

It’s the second abortion-related bill in as many days filed by Republicans. Sen. Whitney Westerfield, R-Crofton, proposed on Tuesday asking voters whether they want to amend the Kentucky Constitution to make clear it does not contain a protected right to abortion. Voters rejected a near-identical proposal last November in Amendment 2.

Legislative leaders have expressed caution at passing any abortion-related laws until the Kentucky Supreme Court rules on the merits of a lawsuit from the state’s two outpatient abortion providers, challenging the constitutionality of the trigger law and six-week ban.

That ruling will have a bearing on whether or not either law is ultimately enforceable.

Though the GOP-controlled Legislature has made no moves to amend current abortion bans since both laws took effect seven months ago, House leadership on Wednesday morning said bills with exceptions would be filed in the coming days.

In a statement, House Speaker David Osborne’s office also distanced itself from Callaway’s proposal: “In the history of our Commonwealth, the Kentucky General Assembly has never passed a pro-life measure that did not take into consideration the necessity for any exceptions, nor has this House Majority Caucus ever contemplated doing so.”

While the Legislature waits for the high court to weigh in, “we continue to have legitimate discussions on future policy. As a result, we anticipate legislation will be filed in the coming days, including bills that will provide further exceptions,” Osborne said.

That case was heard before the previous court in November. But Justices did not rule in time before two new Justices joined their ranks in January.

#us politics #news #Lexington Herald-Leader #2023 #Kentucky #abortions #abortion bans #homicide #reproductive rights #reproductive rights are human rights #reproductive health #republicans #conservatives #gop platform #gop policy #gop #Emily Callaway #Prenatal Equal Protection Act #House Bill 300 #kentucky supreme court #Jeff Donohue #Daniel Cameron #fetal homicide laws #Whitney Westerfield #David Osborne

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Natalie Cassase

Published: Jan 21, 2022

Over 20 major cities across the U.S. have either cut or shifted police budget funds since the death of George Floyd in May 2020. As a result, 2020 likely saw the largest homicide increase in American history, with high crime rates continuing into 2021.

The following are crime spikes in cities that defunded their police.

New York: During the summer of 2020, New York cut $1 billion from its police funds. In June 2020, the city experienced a 130 percent increase in shootings in one month. Killings in August 2021 were up 50 percent.

Chicago: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed to be opposed to defunding the police while quietly cutting 400 police officers positions during 2020. Chicago saw 87 shootings over the 2020 4th of July weekend. The same year, carjackings were up 135 percent.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles cut $150 million from its LAPD budget last July. As of late November 2020, LA recorded 300 homicides. Killings were reportedly up 25 percent since 2019, and shootings were up more than 32 percent. Shootings in South LA rose 742 percent in the first two weeks of January.

Milwaukee: After cutting 60 police positions in 2020, Milwaukee proposed a budget to cut 120 police positions in 2021, cutting a total of $430,000 from the overall budget. Milwaukee experienced a 95 percent increase of local murders in 2020.

Louisville: Rather than directly defunding its police, Louisville voted to use portions of its funds for "recruiting a more diverse force" and "behavioral health professionals" to assist officers. They also boasted of sending millions to "disadvantaged and disinvested" communities. The city saw a 78 percent increase in 2020 homicides.

Seattle: Seattle reduced its police budget by 20 percent and saw a 74 percent homicide increase in 2020.

Minneapolis: Minneapolis cut $8 million from its police budget and saw a 72 percent increase in local murders during the 2020 year.

New Orleans: In 2020, despite seeing a 62 percent increase in 2020 homicides, New Orleans proposed a $16 million budget cut for 2021. It has now experienced an 11 percent increase from 2020 and 79% increase compared to 2019.

Atlanta: In 2020, Atlanta reallocated 50 percent of the corrections budget to social services and community enhancement initiatives and saw a 58 percent increase in 2020 homicides.

Portland: In 2020, Portland cut $15 million and disbanded a gun violence reduction unit, after which Portland saw an 83 percent increase in homicides in 2020. Source

Baltimore: Baltimore cut $22 million from its police budget in 2020 and has experienced a 17 percent increase in homicides compared to the same time last year. Thirty-seven businesses have requested a crackdown on low-level crimes. ​​Baltimore surpassed 300 killings for the seventh consecutive year.

Oakland: Oakland cut its police budget by $14.6 million in 2020. Homicides were up 500 percent, and shootings were up 126 percent in the first two weeks of January 2021.

Washington DC: Washington DC cut its police budget by $15 million, ending 2020 with a 19 percent increase in violent crime compared to 2019. In November, 2021 DC recorded its 200th homicide, a benchmark not reached since 2003.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia cut police funding by $33 million in 2021.  Since Jan 2020, 500 people were killed, and more than 2,240 were shot, 40 percent more than the police have ever recorded. In 2021, Philadelphia saw killings at a higher rate than in 2020. By September, killings were up 18% from the same time last year. In November 2021, Philadelphia reached 497 killings,13 percent higher than this time last year.

Hartford: After Hartford cut $1 million from its $4 million budget, it has experienced 20 murders through the first six months of 2021, The city experienced almost as many homicides in half a year as in each of the past three years.

Salt Lake City: Salt Lake City reduced its police budget by $5.3 million in 2020. By December, 2020 violent crime and property crime had increased more than 20 percent.

Austin: Austin cut its police budget by a third in 2020. By December 2020, murder was up 54 percent over the previous year, and aggravated assault was up 13 percent.

Dallas: Dallas cut $7 million from the $24 million overtime budget for police and by November 2020 surpassed 2019’s homicide rate, the highest on record since 1991. The city even experienced seven murders over a period of 24 hours.

Denver: The mayor of Denver claimed to be against defunding the police. However, the city's policies require healthcare workers to respond to domestic mental health calls instead of police. In 2020, the city recorded the highest number of homicides since 1981, a 51 percent increase.

San Francisco: San Francisco's mayor revealed her plan to  redirect $120 million into "health workers and workforce training.” San Francisco saw a double increase in shootings in the first half of 2021 compared to the past two years and a rise in aggravated assault.

In December, San Francisco Mayor, London Breed, launched an emergency police intervention in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood. The mayor said, “it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement. More aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”

San Diego: After San Diego cut $4.3 million from its police overtime funds, the city saw a “disturbing” increase in violent crime with a 129 percent increase in gang-related shootings since Jan 1.

Unpacking the Cause of the Crime Spike

Lack of policing

Replacing police with unarmed civilians such as social workers.

Reducing or reallocating funds affects police activity. The Law Enforcement legal Defense Fund found that police activity such as arrests, stops, and searches declined by 48 percent since last June. In New York, for example, there were 40,000 fewer arrests made by July 2020. Consequently, during June of that year, murder was up 30 percent; burglaries were up 118 percent.; thefts were up 51 percent.

Police voluntarily leaving the force. In 2020, the NYPD saw a 75 percent increase in quitting or retirement. After George Floyd’s death in May 2020, close to 200 officers had left the Minneapolis police force by May 2021.

Lowered morale and hesitancy to police

The continuous narrative is that it is racist to enforce laws, particularly lower-level offenses.

Hostile rhetoric against police.

A lack of trust between police and prosecutors. Police go through the process of arresting criminals for them to be released and shortly re-offend.

Change in societal standards

The mass media continually downplayed and politicized the violence that took place during the summer of 2021. This sent a message of tolerance for violence, justification of vandalism, and explicit messages that law and order were not a societal priority.

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Defunding the police had a body count. And it wasn't the elits who suffered.

Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes. -- Rob Henderson

#Natalie Cassase #defund the police #violent crime #vandalism #law enforcement #homicide #budget cuts #crime #religion is a mental illness

[coochiequeens]

Five Black women and girls were killed every day in the United States in 2020, as a national increase in gun violence during the pandemic took a heavy toll on some of the country’s most vulnerable people.

In all 1,821 Black women and girls were killed in 2020. That was an additional 461 women and girls who were murdered in 2020 compared with 2019 – more than one additional killing a day.

As part of a new Guardian series on the homicides of Black women and girls, here’s what we know – and what we don’t yet know – about this “unspoken epidemic”, and the important findings of our data investigation into the killings.

Black women and girls in the US are four times more likely to die by violence than white or Hispanic women

The national homicide rate for Black women and girls in 2020 was eight homicides per 100,000 people. That’s the highest rate among American women, and represents a risk of violent death that is four times higher than white or Latina women.

Indigenous women and girls face the next-highest risk, at 5.8 homicides per 100,000 people.

Even though American men make up the majority of homicide victims, both Black and Indigenous women and girls face a homicide risk that is higher than that of white men and boys (4.7 homicides per 100,000 people).

In 2020, about 75% of Black female homicide victims were killed with a gun.

During the pandemic, homicides of Black women and girls tripled in Kentucky, more than doubled in the District of Columbia, and doubled in Wisconsin and Ohio

In Kentucky, where Breonna Taylor’s killing by white police officers in Louisville sparked national protests, homicides of Black women and girls statewide tripled in 2020, from 10 women and girls killed to 33, compared with the year before. In Wisconsin and Ohio these killings doubled, rising from 21 to 42 and from 57 to 110 respectively.

In Washington DC, the nation’s capital, homicides of Black women more than doubled, from 10 to 25. No women of any other race were murdered in the district in 2020, according to the police department.

The graphic below shows the homicide rate of Black women and girls per 100,000.

The increase in these states, researchers and state officials say, points to larger racial disparities in the midwest, ranging from overall life expectancy to deaths from heart disease, and incarceration rates. And though Washington DC is home to some of America’s most powerful Black people, it is also a majority Black city where many residents face intense disadvantages.

There are big differences in Black women’s risk of violent death across different regions of the country. New York and New Jersey, for instance, saw substantial increases in the homicide rate for Black women and girls in 2020. But even after 2020’s increases, Black women and girls living in Wisconsin and Missouri still faced a homicide risk five times higher than Black women and girls living in New York.

Overall, it’s in America’s midwest, as well as in some southern states bordering the midwest, where Black women face the overall highest risk of being murdered, not in the deep south.

Nationwide, the homicide rate for Black women and girls increased 33% in 2020 – a sharply higher increase than women or girls of other races, and one that rivaled the rate increase for Black men and boys

Across racial groups, American men saw big increases in their homicide rates in 2020, leaving thousands more men dead compared with the year before.

But there was a much sharper racial disparity among women, with Black women’s homicide risk increasing much more than any other group.

Many Black women and girls are killed by intimate partners, family members, or other people they know. But there are big gaps in national law enforcement data about the perpetrators of these killings

Like most American women, Black women and girls are often killed by someone they know. Nearly a third of Black women and girls in 2020 were known to be killed by an intimate partner or a family member, according to law enforcement homicide data reported to the FBI, and another 16% were killed by a friend, neighbor or acquaintance.

But there are significant gaps in national law enforcement data about their murders. For nearly half of the killings of Black women and girls in 2020, the FBI’s supplementary homicide report lists the relationship between the victim and the person who killed her as “unknown”.

Half the recorded killings of trans and gender non-conforming people in 2020 were killings of Black trans women

National homicide statistics do not identify whether victims are trans or gender non-conforming, and law enforcement agencies frequently misgender trans homicide victims.

In 2020, half the 46 recorded homicides of trans and gender non-confirming people nationwide were killings of Black trans women, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which tracks these deaths.

That number is rising: at least 34 Black trans women were killed in 2021, the organization said.

In all, since 2013, at least 175 Black trans women have been killed in the United States, representing the majority of the 270 trans and gender non-confirming deaths HRC has recorded. The organization includes profiles paying tribute to each of the people lost on its website.

The for states with the highest rates of homicide for black women just outlawed abortion.

#Black women and homicide rates

[savefilescomng12]

Texans WR Tank Dell wounded in Florida shooting

DJ Bien-Aime, ESPNApr 28, 2024, 04:34 PM ETCloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets. He's a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show, "Talkin' Texans."Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell was shot in Sanford, Florida, shortly after midnight Sunday morning, according to the Texans.Dell was a bystander during a shooting at a private event in Sanford where authorities say a teenage gunman wounded 10 people after an altercation. A Texans spokesperson said Dell isn't seriously injured and was released from the hospital and is traveling back to Houston on Sunday.In a statement, the team said Dell has a "minor wound."" has been released from the hospital and he is in good spirits," the Texans said. "We are in contact with him and his family and will provide more updates when appropriate but ask that you please respect his privacy at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved in the incident."Texans wide receiver Tank Dell has been released from a hospital after being treated for a minor wound sustained in a shooting in Sanford, Florida. Michael Allio/Icon SportswireNone of the victims in the shooting at Cabana Live in Sanford suffered life-threatening injuries, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. It said the 10 people were treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds, primarily below their waists.Witnesses told law enforcement the shooting started after a fistfight broke out. Someone who wasn't involved in the melee drew a handgun and began firing toward a crowd of people, according to the arrest report. A security guard standing near the gunman wrestled him to the ground and disarmed him.A 16-year-old suspect was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center. He was charged with attempted homicide, firing a weapon in a public place, using a firearm during a felony and illegal possession of a firearm by a minor.Dell finished his 2023 rookie season with 709 yards and seven touchdowns. But his year was cut short after he suffered a broken leg in an early December game against the Denver Broncos. Last month, coach DeMeco Ryans said Dell was on track with his rehab and was participating in offseason activities, and the coach added that he was excited to have him back.The Associated Press contributed to this report. Source link Read the full article

[newstfionline]

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Idalia sweeps through Georgia after pelting Florida’s coast (NYT) Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning in Florida’s Big Bend, hitting the area with heavy rain and devastating winds before marching northeast into Georgia. The storm severed power to hundreds of thousands of homes and left behind life-threatening floods across wide swaths of the region. Idalia, which briefly reached Category 4 strength, is now a tropical storm with sustained 70-miles-per-hour winds. Still, forecasters warned that as it moves north, it could produce dangerous conditions in parts of Georgia and southern South Carolina.

Dry wells (NYT) The water that lies beneath the earth’s surface—known as groundwater—has been a vital resource for thousands of years. Communities that are far away from lakes and rivers use groundwater to irrigate crops and provide drinking water. For most of human history, groundwater has existed in a convenient equilibrium. The pockets of water under the surface need years or decades to replenish as rainwater and other moisture seep into the earth. Fortunately, though, people have used groundwater slowly, allowing replenishment to happen. Now that equilibrium is at risk. Over the past 40 years, groundwater levels at most sites checked have declined. At 11 percent of the sites, levels last year fell to their lowest level on record. The U.S., in other words, is taking water out of the ground more quickly than nature is replenishing it. “There’s almost no way to convey how important it is,” Don Cline, the associate director for water resources at the United States Geological Survey, told The Times. Already, there are consequences. In parts of Kansas, the shortage of water has reduced the amount of corn that an average acre can produce. “We’ve built whole parts of the country and whole parts of the economy on groundwater, which is fine so long as you have groundwater,” journalist Chris Flavelle said. “I don’t think people realize quite how quickly we’re burning through it.”

The New Little Havana: Why Cuban Migrants Are Moving to Kentucky (NYT) At the first beats of “La Vida es un Carnaval” on a recent morning, several octogenarians in a senior center abandoned their dominoes, coloring books and crossword puzzles, and showed off their salsa moves. Nearby, at a ballet studio, little girls and boys in T-shirts inscribed with, “Que Siga La Tradicion,” or “Keep the Tradition Alive,” clapped as they shuffled forward and back to a pulsating Afro-Cuban rhythm. “Uno, dos, tres,” said their instructor, Selen Wilson Guerra, as she warmed them up for class. This was not Havana, or even Little Havana in Miami. It was Louisville, a city best known for bourbon, the Kentucky Derby and Muhammad Ali. Now it is home to the fastest growing Cuban community in the United States. In a landlocked state with cold, gray winters, Louisville may seem an unlikely destination for refugees from a tropical island. But its plentiful jobs, relatively low cost of living and nonprofit agencies that support newcomers are powerful magnets. Not to mention word of mouth from longtime Cuban residents. According to independent estimates, at least 30,000 Cubans call Louisville’s Jefferson County home, with much of the influx having arrived in the last two years as conditions deteriorated in their country.

US embassy in Haiti urges citizens to leave country 'as soon as possible' (Reuters) The U.S. Embassy in Haiti on Wednesday urged citizens in the Caribbean country to leave "as soon as possible" citing security and infrastructure challenges, as escalating violence has left thousands displaced and sent homicides soaring. "U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transport," the embassy said in a statement, urging extreme caution. An escalating gang turf war in Haiti has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis that has displaced around 200,000 nationwide and left some 5.2 million people—nearly half of Haiti's population—in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.

Decades After Dictatorship, Chile Mounts Search for Hundreds Who Vanished (NYT) Thirty-six years after Fernando Ortíz’s abduction and disappearance, his family finally received his remains: five bone fragments in a box. Mr. Ortíz, a 50-year-old professor, was kidnapped in 1976 during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, rounded up with other communist leaders in Chile and sent to a torture center so secret that no one knew of its existence for three decades. He was one of 1,469 people who disappeared under Chile’s military rule from 1973 to 1990. Only 307 of them have been found and identified. Now, before the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled one of Latin America’s most stable democracies and installed the 17-year dictatorship that imprisoned, tortured and killed thousands of its opponents, Chile plans a national search plan to track down the remaining disappeared. The measure marks the first time since the end of the Pinochet regime that the Chilean government has tried to find those who went missing—an effort that until now has largely fallen to the surviving family members, mainly women, who protested, went on hunger strikes and took their cases to court.

Air attack kills 2 in Kyiv while Russia accuses Ukraine of biggest drone attack of the war (AP) Russian officials on Wednesday accused Ukraine of launching what appeared to be the biggest nighttime drone attack on Russian soil since the war began 18 months ago. The Kremlin’s forces also hit Kyiv during the night with what Ukrainian officials called a “massive, combined attack” that killed two people. Drones struck hit an airport in western Russia’s Pskov region near the border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 transport aircraft that can carry heavy machinery, Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. The airport strike, which was first reported minutes before midnight, started a massive fire, the regional governor and local media reported. Media reports said up to 20 drones may have targeted the airport, damaging at least four cargo planes.

Ukraine counts the cost of fighting back (BBC) Ukraine treats its war casualty numbers as a state secret but recent reports have put the number of toops killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion as high as 70,000. In a brick mortuary near Donetsk, one of a number along the eastern front line, our correspondent Quentin Sommerville finds bodies “piled high”. At a desk, mortuary worker Margo faces the grim task of counting the dead. This was how she discovered her own partner had been killed. “The hardest is when you see a young guy who hasn’t even reached 20,” she says. “You cannot get used to this.” Outside, body bags are opened and wallets, phones and photos retrieved to identify the fallen. “This is difficult. Unpleasant. But we have to give the boys a proper send-off,” one officer says.

India lodges 'strong protest' over territory claims by China (BBC) India says it has lodged a "strong protest" with China over a new map that lays claim to its territory. Indian media have reported that the map shows the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed Aksai Chin plateau as China's territory. India's protest comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the sidelines of the Brics summit in South Africa. An Indian official said afterwards that the two countries had agreed to "intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement and de-escalation" along the disputed border. The source of the tension between the neighbours is a disputed 3,440km (2,100 mile)-long de facto border along the Himalayas—called the Line of Actual Control—which is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps means the line can shift in places. China says it considers the whole of Arunachal Pradesh its territory, calling it "South Tibet"—a claim India firmly rejects.

U.S. engages in frank talks amid warnings China has become ‘uninvestible’ (Washington Post) Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo arrived in China this week with a challenging brief: Her department has implemented the United States’ tough export controls against China, and she had to stand firm on that position. At the same time, the former venture capitalist was seeking to advance a political thaw and improve American companies’ access to the lucrative Chinese market. For all the public smiles on both sides—including a surprisingly long meeting with China’s premier—one word hung over Raimondo’s four-day trip: “Uninvestible.” “Increasingly I hear from American business that China is uninvestible because it’s become too risky,” she said. “So businesses look for other opportunities; they look for other countries; they look for other places to go.” Three years of covid-related lockdowns snarled supply chains. Then came an unpredictable mix of raids on American businesses and opaque penalties—including the increasing use of exit bans against foreign business executives. Taken together, it has made foreign firms—not just U.S. ones—wary of continuing operations in China. In China’s words, it’s open for business. In actions, not so much. According to Naomi Wilson, vice president of policy, Asia and global trade at the Information Technology Industry Council, “Even among Chinese companies, there have been efforts to relocate outside of China.”

Israel Isn’t Earning Any Allies (BBC/Guardian) On Monday, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah suspended Najla Mangoush, his own foreign minister, for meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. Libya, like many other Arab states, does not recognize Israel diplomatically and is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause. Reports of the meeting were met with protests in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, and the Speaker’s Office in parliament accused Mangoush of grand treason. As news of the meeting between Israel and Libya broke, Syrian state media claimed that Israel’s military launched airstrikes on Aleppo International Airport. The airstrikes were reportedly aimed at the airport’s only operational runway and grounded all flights. This year alone, Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s airports have killed over a dozen people, and have shut down its two international airports multiple times. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli settler violence is rising to new highs. So far this year, OCHA has registered over 700 incidents of settler violence leading to Palestinian casualties, damage to property, or both. Israel has authorized 15 new settler outposts this year, and IDF forces have been known to stand by and watch as settlers attack the Palestinians. The U.N. and the rest of the international community don’t recognize settlements as legal.

Africa: A third of all people (Foreign Policy) Half of the global population growth from 2022 to 2050 will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s population is currently growing three times faster than the rest of the world, and by the end of the century, it will be home to a third of all people in the world, compared to only 14 percent in 2019. This means that the burden of rapid population growth will fall on some of the poorest countries in the world, with nearly half of the region having a gross national income per capita below $1,135, and in places that are among the most vulnerable to climate change.

Gabon Military Officers Say They Are Seizing Power (NYT) A group of senior military officers appeared on television in the oil-rich Central African nation of Gabon early Wednesday and announced they were seizing power, hours after the incumbent president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was declared to have won a third term in office. The officers, who claimed to represent the major arms of the security forces, said they were canceling the results of the recent election, suspending the government and closing the country’s borders until further notice. Bursts of gunfire could be heard in the capital, Libreville, shortly after the broadcast ended, Reuters reported. The Bongos have ruled Gabon, a country of 2.3 million people on Africa’s Atlantic coast, for over half a century. Mr. Bongo, 64, was about to begin his third term since becoming president in 2009. He took over from his father, Omar Bongo, who had been in power since 1967.

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'She was special': Moncton homicide victim fondly remembered by sister

The sister of a woman stabbed to death in Moncton, N.B., this week says the family is still in shock.

Jessica LaPointe was making funeral arrangements for her big sister Kyla on Thursday when she spoke about the tragedy the family is dealing with.

"We're leaning on each other right now to get through everything and everything that we're going to have to go through," said LaPointe. "I think without each other right now it would be extremely difficult."

Kyla LaPointe was stabbed multiple times on Belleview Avenue in east-end Moncton early Tuesday morning. She later died in hospital.

Police say three people were arrested near the scene and have been charged with second-degree murder.

The RCMP's Major Crime Unit continues to investigate the homicide.

Originally from Bathurst, the 32-year-old was living in Fredericton with her partner.

She was the mother of four girls.

LaPointe said her sister was the biggest free spirit anyone could meet.

"Her favourite places were the forest, the beach, anywhere in nature," said LaPointe.

She called Kyla a loving and caring person who was beautiful on the inside and out.

"I could honestly just go on and on about her. She was special and she touched a lot of people. Almost anyone who came across Kyla left a different person," said LaPointe.

LaPointe said Kyla was on the committee for the New Brunswick Youth in Care Network (NBYICN), an organization that helps youth facing a variety of social challenges.

"She stood up for the rights of children in care," she said.

On Wednesday, NBYICN executive director John Sharpe expressed his sadness over Kyla's death in a Facebook post.

"We remember Kyla for her entire life and we reflect in sadness but also in gratitude for having known her," said Sharpe in the post.

Sharpe said Kyla was one of the earliest members of the network and gave personal testimony at hearings at the provincial legislature in front of the premier and members of cabinet.

"She was fearless," wrote Sharpe. "Her advocacy and passion to improve the system of care, which she knew all too well, was a guiding light to many and had an impact at the highest systematic levels."

In 2015, Kyla won a Muhammed Ali Humanitarian Award as an advocate who promoted policy, programming and resources for youth in the child welfare system.

She was 24 years old at the time.

"She met Muhammed Ali and gave a speech and it was wonderful," said LaPointe.

At the ceremony in Louisville, Ky., Kyla spoke about the difficulty of growing up in foster care.

"We were the first set of siblings from our home province to successfully graduate high school and continue on to college and university from the foster care system," Kyla said in 2015.

"All children deserve a loving home. All children deserve a supportive and stable environment where they feel safe and nurtured to accomplish anything that their soul may desire."

LaPointe said it was her sister's calling to help others and to speak her voice.

"Oh, absolutely. She just did that for anybody. She gave all of that out for free," said LaPointe.

She said navigating through life wasn't easy for her sister.

"It's so hard because she was so vulnerable herself and she gave out so much and it was her who needed it the most," said LaPointe.

Kyla's funeral will take place in Bathurst in the near future, but details are still being worked out.

"Every person has their own experience with Kyla and I think they will each remember her for that. She did something positive and different for every person," said LaPointe.

The three people, two men and one woman, who have been charged with second-degree murder in Kyla's death, will make their second court appearance next week.

"We will all be there," said LaPointe. "We just as a family feel like we need to be at the court cases from here on out to make sure she has justice for what happened to her."

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Oh yeah Baltimore’s police reform is working our just great!

Oh yeah Baltimore’s police reform is working our just great! Living near Baltimore City the “diversity” of the community is reflected within the police department. Rawlings-Blake is correct; charges were brought way too quickly and the officers were over charged. This article says nothing about the race and/or gender of the police officers.

The crime in Baltimore continues to Skyrocket. I need someone to define what a mostly peaceful protest is because I don’t think it would include looting and fires. This article sites SEVERAL times the Democrats call to defund the police.

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Despite the failed prosecution, the criminal case against the officers proved a watershed moment. The Freddie Gray case instigated a new push for stronger police accountability laws and set the precedent in Baltimore and in cities across the country for implementing significant police reform.

“That accountability ultimately led to reform, and because of that reform, we had a spotlight on the entrenched police corruption in one of the largest police agencies in the country,” Mosby told CNN.

then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked the Department of Justice to order a civil rights investigation into the city’s police department. The findings revealed a “pattern-or-practice of constitutional violations,” including excessive force and racially biased arrests.

A national reckoning over policing, however, has prompted many agencies to regard Baltimore as a model, looking at its reform policies as they revise their own, Commissioner Harrison said. This comes as the Justice Department has begun ramping up efforts to hold police accountable for misconduct and constitutional violations.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has launched two separate federal civil probes into departments in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by then-officer Derek Chauvin, and in Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by officers in her apartment during a botched raid.

“We don’t know how long it’s going to take to undo the embedded corruption and racism in the Baltimore Police Department,” Kelly said.

But reform efforts are routinely eclipsed by the high level of violence that continues to plague Baltimore’s underserved communities, claiming a disproportionate number of Black lives, and perpetuating a cycle of grief and trauma. The city had its second-deadliest year on record in 2019 with 348 homicides. Baltimore recorded 335 homicides in 2020 and is headed on the same path with 167 homicides halfway into this year.

Commissioner Harrison echoed the same sentiment, arguing that government leaders must address issues such as poverty, lack of education and opportunities, and substandard housing that either “pull or push people into a life of crime for survival.”

On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray encountered police officers in a high-crime area that was notorious for drug dealing. Gray, after making eye contact with police, ran.

Baltimore recorded 342 homicides that year, a 62% increase over 2014. More than 90% of the victims were Black men.

After the case in Gray’s death was closed, then-mayor Rawlings-Blake criticized Mosby for announcing charges too quickly and “bowing to political pressure.” Prosecutors had to rely on “circumstantial evidence” because the van was not equipped with cameras to determine when and how Gray was injured, Mosby told CNN.

This year, Mosby announced she would not prosecute drug possession and other low-level offenses, asserting there is “no public safety value.” For Black Americans, Mosby said, “These offenses can lead to a death sentence.”

“There wouldn’t be such an outcry for help from the communities if there was so much change,” Long said. “Last month, I had to wrestle a young man down because he tried to shoot someone in the head. There were four officers standing on the corner who walked in the opposite direction.”

Commissioner Harrison said the incident was not brought to his attention. “We’re still changing the culture in the police department to a professional culture where officers respond appropriately, and they can get past their fears or perceptions about what they think will happen to them if they make a mistake,” he said.

“The implementation of body cameras and the updating of use-of-force policies are positive things

The city experienced mostly peaceful demonstrations last summer after Floyd was killed, with officers exhibiting a level of restraint and solidarity with protesters. Commissioner Harrison said he was able to keep a strong police presence in communities to combat crime, while other cities shifted resources to respond to moments of unrest and looting.

Earlier this month, the Baltimore City Council approved a $28 million increase in department spending, proposed by Mayor Scott, for the upcoming year. The funds will cover employee pension and health care costs after slashing $22 million from the police budget last year amid calls to defund the police.

Mayor Scott, a Baltimore native who previously served as president of the City Council, assumed office in December 2020, after campaigning on a platform to defund the police.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has been critical of Baltimore’s leadership in combating violent crime, saying the city needs to do “a better job.”

Every officer on the force has been trained in peer intervention to step in when fellow officers cross the line, a program called Ethical Policing is Courageous (EPIC).

#USA #TheChubbyCaucasianChristianClosetedConservative #Baltimore #Crime #GeorgeFloyd

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[ad_1] A mayoral candidate in Louisville, Ky., mentioned he was once the objective of a capturing within his marketing campaign place of business on Monday that left him unhurt however shaken — and with a bullet hollow at the back of his sweater.The candidate, Craig Greenberg, mentioned he and 4 contributors of his marketing campaign group had been in a morning assembly close to downtown when a person walked in.“After we greeted him, he pulled out a gun, aimed at once at me and started capturing,” Mr. Greenberg mentioned at a information convention.The gunman was once status within the doorway as he fired his weapon more than one occasions, Mr. Greenberg mentioned, and a member of his marketing campaign workforce slammed the door close sooner than serving to to construct a barricade out of tables and desks.Law enforcement officials who spoke back to the scene detained a suspect out of doors the development. No fees had been introduced.Mr. Greenberg declined to mention whether or not he known the attacker, mentioning the police investigation, and it was once now not transparent why he was once focused.Leader Erika Shields of the Louisville Metro Police Division mentioned at a information convention that imaginable causes for the assault come with Mr. Greenberg’s mayoral candidacy or his Jewish identification, however that it was once additionally possible that the police had been “coping with any individual who has psychological problems or is venomous.”“Till we will be able to resolve what the motivating components had been, we're going to stay an open thoughts and continue with an abundance of warning and fear for lots of of our neighborhood contributors,” Leader Shields mentioned.Mr. Greenberg, a Democrat, is in a crowded race to interchange Mayor Greg Fischer, a Democrat who can not run once more as a result of he's restricted to a few phrases. The birthday party number one contests are in Might, adopted by means of a basic election in November.There are 8 Democratic applicants, together with David L. Nicholson, the Circuit Courtroom clerk for Jefferson County; the Rev. Timothy Findley Jr. of Kingdom Fellowship Christian Lifestyles Heart; and Shameka Parrish-Wright, a neighborhood social justice activist. Invoice Dieruf, the mayor of Jeffersontown, a Louisville suburb, is among the 4 Republicans within the race.Mr. Greenberg is a businessman who has been the president of a boutique lodge chain and a member of the College of Louisville’s board of trustees. He has been recommended by means of a minimum of six contributors of the 26-person Metro Council, together with its president.The highest factor on Mr. Greenberg’s marketing campaign site is public protection. An eight-page plan outlines his want, amongst different issues, to rent just about 300 cops and to devote extra sources to fixing violent crime and ensuring unlawful weapons keep off the streets.“Too many Louisville households have skilled the trauma of gun violence,” Mr. Greenberg mentioned after the capturing. “Too many in Louisville weren't as blessed as my group and I had been nowadays to continue to exist.“Obviously, a lot more paintings must be accomplished to finish this mindless gun violence and make Louisville a more secure position for everybody.”Like many massive towns, Louisville has noticed an building up in violent crime all the way through the coronavirus pandemic. Town set a file with 173 homicides in 2020, after which broke it with 188 homicides closing 12 months. There have been 18 homicides this 12 months via Feb. 6, in line with the Police Division, moderately at the back of closing 12 months’s tempo.The Police Division itself has been beneath scrutiny for years, maximum prominently after officials killed Breonna Taylor all the way through a botched drug raid in her rental in March 2020. The police leader at the moment was once fired after officials killed a cafe proprietor all the way through protests over Ms. Taylor’s demise.On Monday, Mr. Greenberg

thanked the Police Division for its swift reaction to the capturing and its day-to-day efforts to stay the town secure. He mentioned he sought after to move house and hug his spouse and two sons, pausing to compose himself.“All of it took place so fast, nevertheless it’s an overly surreal enjoy,” he mentioned of the capturing. “There are a long way too many other folks in Louisville who've skilled that very same feeling.” [ad_2] #Louisville #Mayoral #Candidate #Gunman #Shot #Marketing campaign #Place of job

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A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a Kentucky college student and athlete.

Josiah Malachi Kilman, 18, was found unresponsive in his dorm room at Campbellsville University in Kentucky on Saturday, according to the university. He was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead. His body is being sent to the state Medical Examiner's Office in Louisville to determine the cause of death.

Campbellsville University is a private Christian university located in Campbellsville, Kentucky, about 85 miles southeast of Louisville and 83 miles southwest of Lexington.

Kilman is the latest student to die on a college campus this month. Last week, the body of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley was found in a wooded area on the University of Georgia's main campus in Athens. Athens resident Jose Antonio Ibarra was taken into custody in connection with her death. There was another death on UGA's campus at a student dormitory on Feb. 21, but foul play was not suspected and it was not connected to the homicide case, UGA police said.

At the University of Colorado, Nicholas Jordan, a 25-year-old student, faces two counts of first degree murder in the Feb. 16 deaths of Samuel Knopp, Jordan's 24-year-old roommate and a registered student at the university, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, who was not enrolled.

Who was Josiah Kilman?

Kilman was from Montana and joined the Campbellsville University wrestling team, according to a statement from the college's president, Joseph Hopkins, following his death.

Hopkins described Kilman as a "bright light, and a person of incredible hope."

On Sunday, Campbellsville University held a prayer vigil at the Ransdell Chapel on campus.

Who was arrested?

On Saturday, police arrested 21-year-old Charles E. Escalera after the Green County Sheriff's Office and Kentucky State Police received a call of a "suspicious male inside a barn" on the Green County and Taylor County line, according to the Campbellsville Police Department.

He was arrested "without incident" and is facing burglary and murder charges in connection with Kilman's death.

Both Escalera and Kilman were members Campbellsville University's wrestling team, the college told ABC News.

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The pragmatism of community violence prevention programs

Over the weekend, the U.S. experienced two mass shootings. One took place at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, and another at a birthday party in Alabama. There have been 164 mass shootings in the U.S. just this year, according to the National Gun Violence Archive.

As gun legislation stalls in Congress, gun violence in the U.S. continues to rise, leaving states and cities to grapple with safety measures on their own. One solution is gaining traction: community violence prevention programs. Plans for these types of programs were announced this month in Los Angeles, New Jersey, and Ohio.

During the first four years of Baltimore’s program, researchers found homicides dropped by 32 percent. They also identified some challenges these programs face.

What exactly do they do and how effective are they really? 

LISTEN 46:24 READ MORE https://the1a.org/segments/the-pragmatism-of-community-violence-prevention-programs/

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Louisville police guilty of repeated police abuse

(Louisville) Police in the city of Louisville, in the heartland of the United States, have repeatedly resorted to excessive use of force and other illegal, discriminatory and even racist practices, a resounding federal investigation concluded on Wednesday. . This report comes in the wake of the March 13 homicide of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville hospital emergency department worker who was shot and…

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