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Oct 2021
32m 18s

3: People, Places and Narcotics

LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA
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Even as city leaders were making big promises about the model city they claimed Louisville was going to become, they were making decisions that undermined those policing reform goals. In 2016, there were 117 homicides in Louisville — at that point, the most in decades. Police responded with a “People, Places and Narcotics” strategy that targeted some Black n ... Show More
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