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4: Might As Well Appeal

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Louisville Public Media

Louisville, Documentary, Truecrime, Kentucky, Society & Culture, News, Society & Culture/documentary, Investigation, True Crime

4.6954 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Former and current LMPD officers say the job can chew up and spit out people who want to do community policing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From L.P. App. Louisville Public Media.

0:04.0

A listener note. This episode contains audio of a police shooting.

0:08.0

Every day we commit to giving our best. This is a recruitment video the

0:18.6

Louisville Metro Police Department put out a few years back. We train to

0:22.3

protect this city.

0:23.2

Honestly, it looks more like a scene from law and order. It's really polished and super intense.

0:28.3

We hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. In the video, there's an amber alert out for a missing child, and it's all hands on deck.

0:37.0

Police dogs yank their handlers across a wooded field.

0:41.0

It takes a team to search for the truth.

0:43.4

And L&PD speedboat slices through the Ohio River

0:46.2

before divers take to the water.

0:48.3

There are helicopters and officers jumping into armored vehicles

0:51.1

and military- style fatigues.

0:53.2

Blue and red lights spin, sirens wail,

0:55.8

as police cars race down a darkened street.

0:58.1

We are proud to go where others feel not.

1:00.8

Finally, the officers bust down the door of a house with a battering ram without knocking or announcing themselves.

1:07.0

And two skinny white guys flee as the officers yell.

1:10.0

Go, go!

1:11.0

Kill the ground! Where is the girl? Next thing you know, the men are in custody and a black officer is carrying a small girl out of the house.

1:19.0

They're both smiling. The perfect end to another badass day with the Louisville Metro Police Department.

1:25.0

We are Louisville Metro Police.

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