SEP 8 2025LOUISVILLE

Safer Louisville Envisioned

Metro Council Republicans proposals for improving public safety

The Republicans on the Louisville Metro Council are promising action to stem the tide of crime.

Policies were introduced at a news conference:

  • Adding State police patrols on Jefferson County Interstate Roadways
  • Eliminating streetside solicitation
  • Funding a pilot program to place streetlights in two high crime areas.
  • Cracking down on illegal ATV use
  • Seeking a timely reopening of the Juvenile Justice Center
  • Calling for the planning and development of a New Jail to improve worker and inmate safety.
  • Funding programs to increase number of Traffic Feedback Signs, Flock Cameras and Real Time Video Cameras deployed within Metro.
  • Supporting efforts to increase transparency and create a “scorecard” for better awareness on Judicial and Prosecutorial decisions especially involving violent criminals.
  • Funding for construction of a new First Responder Training Facility

Fastzone will keep track of the scorecard on judges.

On August 29 WDRB reported Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Jessica Green recused herself from a case. She and her family received racial and sexual threats after a man she released on shock probation, kidnapped a family in St. Matthews at knifepoint and robbed a bank. His crime spree included assault (stabbing). The felon, Armond Langford, had been sentenced (not by Green) to 14 years in prison for robberies, burglary, violent behavior, and assaulting numerous victims.

Langford was not eligible for shock probation. Under the KRS statute for ‘Shock probation in felony conviction’, 439_265(K)(4)(a) ‘If the defendant is a violent offender as defined in KRS 439.3401, the sentence shall not be probated under this section.’

KRS 439.3401 defines violent offenders and conditions for release for those who commit various crimes, including criminal abuse in the first degree, burglary and robbery. And, ‘A violent offender with a sentence of a term of years shall not be released on probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or other form of early release until he or she has served at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the sentence imposed.’

The standard reasons why a judge recuses him or herself from a case are:

  1. Conflict of interest that prevents the judge from maintaining impartiality (She would stand to gain a benefit. Doubtful?)
  2. Judge does not have the legal authority to decide a matter if the plaintiff lacks standing, the issue is moot or it involves a political question
  3. Case files do not meet legal standards; claim not ripe for adjudication (from internet)