VICE News Documentary on Louisville Police

VICE News does some really good work, not just ace reporter Elle Reeves. 

In this documentary, they take a look at what a shit show the Louisville Metro Police Department has been.  It's about 45 minutes long and definitely worth watching.

I wrote about the case of Emery Taylor, a gas-station employee who was groped by an on-duty, uniformed LMPD officer who was coming in often and following her around the store on a regular basis.  He was given probation only, and there was no mention of him losing his police powers.  In other words as far as I know he could be rehired at another department despite being videotaped repeatedly stalking and sexually assaulting Emery Taylor at her place of work -- in front of multiple witnesses while on duty and in uniform.

So it shouldn't shock you that after a woman called and complained that she was tired of this one detective hitting her up for blowjobs every day, they didn't go into high gear.  She didn't follow up, so they dropped the ball.  There were multiple clues, from various angles, that apparently didn't prompt any sort of serious response.  Like with Ferguson, Missouri, things were very bad for a long time before  the Justice Department stepped in.

In the Daniel Holtzclaw case, there was one victim that came forward and the detective, Kim Davis, took it serious like cancer.  The video evidence didn't show any of the activity, only the time stamp.  It showed them out there on that deserted road for way too long to be doing the nothing in particular Holtzclaw claimed they were doing.

Holtzclaw relied upon the same sort of nudge nudge, wink wink, that the multiple serial predators in Louisville clearly relied upon for years.   And unfortunately for himself, it wasn't available in Oklahoma, at least not with Davis.  Because Holtzclaw's version of events didn't make sense, and his survivor's did, according to nothing but the timestamp and common sense.  When I watched the Holtzclaw interview I could tell he was guilty just because his story didn't add up and hers did.

Anyway this VICE documentary is tough to watch, when you see how brazen the Louisville crew was, and all the disgusting games they ran, Holtzclawing left and right.  Highly recommended when you have 45 minutes.