Talk:Louisville Metro Police Department
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
Louisville Metro Police Department is within the scope of WikiProject Louisville, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia. | |
| B | This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale. | |
| Top | This article has been rated as Top-importance on the Project's importance scale. | |
 |
Please explain ratings on the ratings summary page. | |
 |
Louisville Metro Police Department is within the scope of the Law Enforcement WikiProject. Please Join, Create, and Assess. Remember, the project aims for no vandalism and no conflict, if an article needs attention regarding vandalism or breaches of wikiquette, please add it to the article watch list. |
| B | This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale. |
 To-do list for Louisville Metro Police Department: |
edit · history · watch · refresh |
|---|---|
|
|
[edit] To-do List
As my main sources are somewhat limited, either by nature (the LMPD website) or date (the Encyclopedia of Louisville was printed in 2001), there are somethings lacking to make this a "complete" article. Here is what comes to mind immediately. Feel free to add to this list.
- Expand history of Jefferson County Police Department
- Include recent controversies (e.g., police shootings, etc.)
- Recent crime statistics
- More detailed information on various units (Crimes Against Children, Special Victims, etc.)
- Current relationship between LMPD and metro council/mayor.
--Braindrain0000 01:34, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Newby shooting
The truth of the section on Newby is highly suspect. It gives the police position as the only account of what happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.165.112.35 (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Do you have a source or sources that might be useful in improving the section? We can only summarize stuff that appeared in print, or in some cases, reliably-sourced web pages. Unfortunately I do not have time right now to dig around for more information on my own, but if you have can show me some articles (that appeared in the CJ, LEO, other regional or national publications) I will do my best to summarize their information. --W.marsh 17:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Controversies
I have added rough coverage of the Newby shooting/trial. That's the obvious one I think, the other two to mention might be Erik Wolfe (the bargoer cops were convicted of taking somewhere and beating) and maybe Adrian Garner, who said he was beaten in jail. Not sure if those really are "as important", Newby got 170 results when I searched for his exact name in the CJ archives, the other 2 got about 10 each.
Anyway improvements are welcome, as always. --W.marsh 23:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Another major controversy was the police shooting of James Edward Taylor, the black man who was shot while he was in handcuffs. I believe this happened a short time before LMPD took over from LPD. But it was definitely a major controversy. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 00:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
I've added the skating rink thing. I probably jumped the gun, if no one remembers this as being particularly important after a few months, it should probably be removed. --W.marsh 17:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
